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  • A sick child has his chest examined by the doctor in the CINI health clinic. Child In Need Institute (CINI) is based in Kolkata, India. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO), which provides sustainable development in health, nutrition, education and security for the poorest communities in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh states.
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  • Sister Krishna Mondal writes in the patient’s medical notes. She is the senior nurse who manages the CINI emergency ward. Child In Need Institute (CINI) is based in Kolkata, India. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO), which provides sustainable development in health, nutrition, education and security for the poorest communities in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh states.
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  • A sick child is examined by a doctor in the CINI health clinic while other families wait their turn. Child In Need Institute (CINI) is based in Kolkata, India. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO), which provides sustainable development in health, nutrition, education and security for the poorest communities in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh states.
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  • Communal food being prepared on the CINI ward by the mothers of the sick children. The mothers get involved with the daily cooking duties so that they can have some activity other than caring for their child. Child In Need Institute (CINI) is based in Kolkata, India. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO), which provides sustainable development in health, nutrition, education and security for the poorest communities in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh states.
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  • A mother brings her malnourished baby to the CINI emergency ward.  Care on the CINI ward includes medical intervention for the child and nutrition training for the mother.  Child In Need Institute (CINI) is based in Kolkata, India. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO), which provides sustainable development in health, nutrition, education and security for the poorest communities in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh states.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • A young boy from Mr Ngugi Phase 1 social studies class runs through the school rules at Mathare School in Nairobi, Kenya. Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO run various programmes that assist the school and children.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Ms Vanthone, a metalworker prepares a wooden mould with ash to make bracelets from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. 12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A wooden mould and ash for casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A wooden mould for casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Scouts practice their routine in the grounds of Mari Mani primary school. The Wema Centre has supplied the scouts with all their uniforms, socks and shoes. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Scouts practice their routine in the grounds of Mari Mani primary school. The Wema Centre has supplied the scouts with all their uniforms, socks and shoes. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Ndune and her class at the Mari Mani primary School.  Ndune has the smallest class in the school, only 35 students. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • The Mbaraki base gang leaders in central Mombassa. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Boys sniff glue at Mbaraki base in central Mombassa, Kenya. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • The Mbaraki base gang leaders walk down the back streets of central Mombassa. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • One of the Mbaraki base gang leaders in central Mombassa sitting in his shelter. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Boys sniff glue at Mbaraki base in central Mombassa, Kenya. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • One of the street gang leaders sings a song to the gang at Mbaraki base in central Mombassa. Most of the children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • A child from K3 works out a math question on the blackboard. Children attend the kindergarten school to learn a variety of subjects during lessons at the Wema Centre, Mombassa, Kenya. Wema is a NGO organisation in Kenya that provides rehabilitation programs for street children; poor, disadvantaged youth; and, orphaned and vulnerable children affected by poverty. Emotional support and education enables the children reintegration back into society.
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  • Children from Kibera slum attend the local school where they learn English.  The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) is an NGO who run various programmes help the school and pupils with books and other materials.
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  • A finance self help group (SHG) called the Neema group based near the Kitengela Centre, 40km from Nairobi, Kenya. They meet regularly talk about saving money and to give out loans to each other. Rhoda is their trainer and brings support from the Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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  • Children that have recently been persuaded to leave the streets in Dandora slum wait at the Undugu centre before heading off to an Undugu centre. They collect plastic and sell to recycling dealers to earn a little money. Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO who run various programmes in the area and at local schools.
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  • Pupils of Mathare School give a performance to the younger pupils in Nairobi, Kenya. Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) are an NGO who run various programmes that assist the school and children.
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  • Children in Madame Dora’s Phase 3 class at Mathare School in Nairobi, Kenya. Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO who run various programmes to help the school and children.
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  • Madame Dora teaching Phase 3 at Mathare School in Nairobi, Kenya. Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO who run various programmes to help the school and children.
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  • Plates of food are ready to be given out to the pupils at Kibera School, Nairobi. The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
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  • Asian elephants and their mahouts (handlers) enjoy bathing in the lake at the Elephant Conservation Center (ECC) in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. The ECC launched in association with the NGO ElefantAsia offers an innovative experience to visitors that combines conservation of the endangered Asian elephant with eco-tourism. Laos was once known as the land of a million elephants but now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. Around 470 of them are in captivity, traditionally employed by a lucrative logging industry. But captive elephants are often overworked and exhausted and as a consequence no longer breed. With only two elephants born for every ten that die, the Asian elephant, the sacred national emblem of Laos, is under serious threat of extinction. At the Elephant Conservation Center in Sayaboury province, the elephant nursery is an innovative reproduction project led by Lao mahouts and the Center.
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  • A mahout and his female Asian elephant leave the water after enjoying bathing in the lake at the Elephant Conservation Center (ECC) in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. The ECC launched in association with the NGO ElefantAsia offers an innovative experience to visitors that combines conservation of the endangered Asian elephant with eco-tourism. Laos was once known as the land of a million elephants but now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. Around 470 of them are in captivity, traditionally employed by a lucrative logging industry. But captive elephants are often overworked and exhausted and as a consequence no longer breed. With only two elephants born for every ten that die, the Asian elephant, the sacred national emblem of Laos, is under serious threat of extinction.
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  • Mae Khram Di, a female Asian elephant and her baby Noy An at their baci ceremony at the Elephant Conservation Center (ECC) in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. The ECC launched in association with the NGO ElefantAsia offers an innovative experience to visitors that combines conservation of the endangered Asian elephant with eco-tourism. Laos was once known as the land of a million elephants but now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. Around 470 of them are in captivity, traditionally employed by a lucrative logging industry. But captive elephants are often overworked and exhausted and as a consequence no longer breed. With only two elephants born for every ten that die, the Asian elephant, the sacred national emblem of Laos, is under serious threat of extinction. At the Elephant Conservation Center in Sayaboury province, the elephant nursery is an innovative reproduction project led by Lao mahouts and the Center. It relies on voluntary participation and aims to support mahouts involved in logging to bear the cost of breeding their elephant.
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  • Noy An, a female baby Asian elephant born in January 2015 at the Elephant Conservation Center (ECC) in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. The ECC launched in association with the NGO ElefantAsia offers an innovative experience to visitors that combines conservation of the endangered Asian elephant with eco-tourism. Laos was once known as the land of a million elephants but now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. Around 470 of them are in captivity, traditionally employed by a lucrative logging industry. But captive elephants are often overworked and exhausted and as a consequence no longer breed. With only two elephants born for every ten that die, the Asian elephant, the sacred national emblem of Laos, is under serious threat of extinction. At the Elephant Conservation Center in Sayaboury province, the elephant nursery is an innovative reproduction project led by Lao mahouts and the Center. It relies on voluntary participation and aims to support mahouts involved in logging to bear the cost of breeding their elephant.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • Brazil female Street Child World Cup team (competition winners) training playing football on a concrete pitch in a favela in favela Vila Cruzeiro. Vila Cruzerio is one of the most dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Football classes are run through Dutch NGO Ibiss, giving the local women a chance to be involved in a positive project.
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  • A sign to a metalworkers house who makes spoons from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A sign to a metalworkers house who makes spoons and bracelets from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, metalworker casting bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, metalworker casting bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, metalworker opens up the wooden mould used for casting bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, a metalworker opens a wooden mould used to make bracelets from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, metalworker casting bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A sign to a metalworkers house who makes spoons from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A metalworker casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A metalworker casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A metalworker casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A metalworker casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A spoon made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Central African Republic. August 2012. Batalimo. Sign on Merlin NGO vehicle saying 'No arms on board'.
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  • Mary who is 6 and a half and her sister in their dormitory at the Wema centre for girls. Mary was rescued from the streets and now attends school and has a safe and secure life. Her sister then came to live with her. Wema is an NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Mary who is 6 and a half, lives at the Wema centre for girls. She was rescued from the streets and now attends school and has a safe and secure life. Her sister Evelyn also came through the centre. Wema is an NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Scouts practice their routine in the grounds at Mwakirunge School, Nr Mombassa, Kenya. There are 800 pupils in the school and 17 teachers in 11 classrooms. The Wema centre have provided the school with, scout uniforms, books, sanitary pads and 100 solar lamps to help improve schoolwork. Wema is an NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Scouts practice their routine in the grounds at Mwakirunge School, Nr Mombassa, Kenya. There are 800 pupils in the school and 17 teachers in 11 classrooms. The Wema centre have provided the school with, scout uniforms, books, sanitary pads and 100 solar lamps to help improve schoolwork. Wema is an NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Scouts practice their routine in the grounds at Mwakirunge School, Nr Mombassa, Kenya. There are 800 pupils in the school and 17 teachers in 11 classrooms. The Wema centre have provided the school with, scout uniforms, books, sanitary pads and 100 solar lamps to help improve schoolwork. Wema is an NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Eric with his class of 97 pupils at Mwakirunge School, Nr Mombassa, Kenya. There are 800 pupils in the school and 17 teachers in 11 classrooms. The Wema centre have provided the school with, scout uniforms, books, sanitary pads and 100 solar lamps to help improve schoolwork. Wema is an NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.
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  • The older pupils studying for there KCP exam at Mwakirunge School, Nr Mombassa, Kenya. There are 800 pupils in the school and 17 teachers in 11 classrooms. The Wema centre have provided the school with, scout uniforms, books, sanitary pads and 100 solar lamps to help improve schoolwork. Wema is an NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.
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  • A family whose children are supported by Wema to go to the Mari Mani School Nr Mombassa, Kenya. Wema is a NGO organisation in Kenya that provides rehabilitation programs for street children; poor, disadvantaged youth; and, orphaned and vulnerable children affected by poverty.
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  • One of the main dumpsites for Mombassa, Kenya. Many children can be found at the dumpsite collecting metals and plastic. Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children, supports the local School and aims to remove the children from the dumpsite.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • One of the main dumpsites for Mombassa, Kenya. Many children can be found at the dumpsite collecting metals and plastic. Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children, supports the local School and aims to remove the children from the dumpsite.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Saumu has a solar light fitted in her house to help her study.  Wema has supplied about 100 solar lights to students of Mari Mani School. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Saumu has a solar light fitted in her house to help her study.  Wema has supplied about 100 solar lights to students of Mari Mani School. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Saumu has a solar light fitted in her house to help her study.  Wema has supplied about 100 solar lights to students of Mari Mani School. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Saumu has a solar light fitted in her house to help her study.  Wema has supplied about 100 solar lights to students of Mari Mani School. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Scouts practice their routine in the grounds of Mari Mani primary school. The Wema Centre has supplied the scouts with all their uniforms, socks and shoes. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Scouts practice their routine in the grounds of Mari Mani primary school. The Wema Centre has supplied the scouts with all their uniforms, socks and shoes. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Year 8 at the Mari Mani school, Mombassa, Kenya.  The class is 12 to 17 year olds and they are candidates that are sitting their KCP exam in November. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Year 8 at the Mari Mani school, Mombassa, Kenya.  The class is 12 to 17 year olds and they are candidates that are sitting their KCP exam in November. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Ndune and her class at the Mari Mani primary School.  Ndune has the smallest class in the school, only 35 students. The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Children in the playground of Mari Mani primary School, Mombassa, Kenya.  The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • Children in the playground of Mari Mani primary School, Mombassa, Kenya.  The school is supported by Wema, a NGO organisation supporting vulnerable children.  The school has 807 pupils and 16 teachers.
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  • At Mbaraki base in central Mombassa young men high on glue sing and dance after lunch provided by the Wema centre. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • The Mbaraki base gang leaders in central Mombassa. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • At Mbaraki base in central Mombassa young men high on glue sing and dance after lunch provided by the Wema centre. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
    11-wema-7221.jpg
  • At Mbaraki base in central Mombassa young men high on glue sing and dance after lunch provided by the Wema centre. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
    11-wema-7197.jpg
  • The Mbaraki base gang leaders in central Mombassa. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Boki, one of the Mbaraki base gang leaders in central Mombassa sits in his shelter. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Shakira – Boki’s new wife is of the Mbaraki base gang members in central Mombassa. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • John, ages 14. One of the Mbaraki base gang members sits in the place he sleeps  in central Mombassa. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • John, ages 14. One of the Mbaraki base gang members stands outside the place he sleeps  in central Mombassa. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • One of the Mbaraki base gang leaders in central Mombassa with his shelter. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Boys sniff glue at Mbaraki base in central Mombassa, Kenya. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • One of the street gang leaders sings a song to the gang at Mbaraki base in central Mombassa. Most of the children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • At Mbaraki base in central Mombassa the Wema centre provide a hot meal once a week to the street children. Most of them are male aged between 7 and 30 years old. Most of them sniff glue, hidden in bottles down their t-shirts. Staff from the Wema centre wash their hands and hand out bowls of rice and beans.  Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • At Mbaraki base in central Mombassa the Wema centre provide a hot meal once a week to the street children. Most of them are male aged between 7 and 30 years old. Most of them sniff glue, hidden in bottles down their t-shirts. Staff from the Wema centre wash their hands and hand out bowls of rice and beans.  Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • At Mbaraki base in central Mombassa the Wema centre provide a hot meal once a week to the street children. Most of them are male aged between 7 and 30 years old. Most of them sniff glue, hidden in bottles down their t-shirts. Staff from the Wema centre wash their hands and hand out bowls of rice and beans.  Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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