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  • A prisoner at Coldingley makes prison gates in the steel workshop.<br />
HMP Coldingley, Surrey was built in 1969 and is a Category C training prison. Coldingley is focused on the resettlement of prisoners and all prisoners must work a full working week within the prison. Its capacity is 390 prisoners.
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  • A prisoner at Coldingley makes prison gates in the steel workshop..HMP Coldingley, Surrey was built in 1969 and is a Category C training prison. Coldingley is focused on the resettlement of prisoners and all prisoners must work a full working week within the prison. Its capacity is 390 prisoners.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Traders and clerks at work at the London Metal Exchange on July 22nd 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded at $9,719 a tonne in official rings from $9,685 a tonne on Thursday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to its lowest level this week.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed province in Lao PDR. After arriving at the clearance site, technician, Pheng examines her metal detector in a set aside area. The metal detectors radar is adjusted to penetrate the depth of 25cm in the ground.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR. Following a signal from her metal detector, Pheng (38), MAG Technician, UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) digs for UXO on the clearance site in Ban Namoune.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR.  Pheng (38), MAG Technician, UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) searchs for UXO with a metal detector on the clearance site in Ban Namoune.
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  • A shoeless child wanders on to Eldoret’s main dump undeterred or unaware of  the constant  risk of cuts from broken glass and infection from needles dumped here by the hospital . ( model release unavailable) <br />
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The Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • A woman collects rubbish for recycling at the dump; plastic, clothes, charcoal, metal even food for humans and livestock are all reclaimed for cash or personal use . <br />
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Making a living from the local dumps in Eldoret is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work here.  The average wage is around $1.5 a day. These pictures were taken with the help of charity Mary’s Meals who are hoping to break the cycle of poverty by providing free school meals.
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  • Tehkhand Slum, Delhi , India.  A woman sorts through the scrap metal she and her family have collected from the streets and rubbish tips to sell to local dealers.  Many slum dwellers earn a living from recycling old industrial waste and live well below the poverty-line.  Her whole family survives from this work.  This is very dangerous work and injuries are frequent.
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  • A shoeless child wanders on to Eldoret’s main dump undeterred or unaware of  the constant  risk of cuts from broken glass and infection from needles dumped here by the hospital .<br />
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Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret25_1.jpg
  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • Tehkhand Slum, Delhi , India.  A man sorts through the scrap metal he and his family have collected from the streets and rubbish tips to sell to local dealers.  Many slum dwellers earn a living from recycling old industrial waste and live well below the poverty-line.  His whole family survives from this work.  This is very dangerous work and injuries are frequent.
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  • Tehkhand Slum, Delhi , India.  A man sorts through the scrap metal he and his family have collected from the streets and rubbish tips to sell to local dealers.  Many slum dwellers earn a living from recycling old industrial waste and live well below the poverty-line.  His whole family survives from this work.  This is very dangerous work and injuries are frequent.
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  • Remains of the stolen Barbara Hepworth sculpture Two Forms (1969) stolen from Dulwich Park where it was installed for 40 years. Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English sculptor. The sculpture which is insured for £500,000 is believed to have been stolen by scrap metal thieves who entered the unprotected park at night on Dec 19th 2011. The bronze piece, called Two Forms (Divided Circle), was cut from its plinth overnight, Trevor Moore of Dulwich Park Friends said. The price it could fetch as scrap metal would only be a tiny fraction of its value as a complete work. Southwark Council is offering a reward for the thieves' arrest and conviction.
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  • A Lebanese BAC ( Battle Area Clearing) Team worker from the Danish NGO Danish Church Aid at work in the field.  The yellow stick is a metal detector giving out high pitch noices, a higher pitch means metal - which means a potential cluster bomb. The Danish Church Aid train local men and women to clear the huge number of cluster sub-munition left on the ground after the Israeli invasion and bombings in 2006.<br />
South Lebanon.
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  • A Lebanese BAC ( Battle Area Clearing) Team worker from the Danish NGO Danish Churcjh Aid at work in the field.  The yellow stick is a metal detector giving out high pitch noices, a higher pitch means metal - which means a potential cluster bomb.  Team leader Fatmira from Kosovo is making sure everything is going well.The Danish Church Aid train local men and women to clear the huge number of cluster sub-munition left on the ground after the Israeli invasion and bombings in 2006.<br />
South Lebanon.
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  • A Lebanese female BAC ( Battle Area Clearing) Team worker from the Danish NGO Danish Churcjh Aid at work in the field.  The yellow stick is a metal detector giving out high pitch noices, a higher pitch means metal - which means a potential cluster bomb.<br />
The Danish Church Aid train local men and women to clear the huge number of cluster sub-munition left on the ground after the Israeli invasion and bombings in 2006.<br />
South Lebanon.
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  • A workman carries a metal panel in a City of London street, on 27th February 2018, in London, England.
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  • A workman carries a metal panel in a City of London street, on 27th February 2018, in London, England.
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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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  • 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 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 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.
    A0012648cc_1.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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, 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 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Middle ages old Cuban man wearing glasses, working on a lathe in his workshop, with rubber and metal, Palmira village in Cienfuegos province, Cuba.
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  • Sarah (15) works on the dump every day, she collects Plastic metals and Charcoal ; her parents have casual jobs ( eg cleaning ) . She left school  when she was 8.<br />
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“It can be quite competitive  at the dump and fights break out, recently a man head was split in a fight about the rubbish. Sometimes there is a whole period when they are fighting. I stick together with my friends Alice and Vera. Vera is my closest friend I have know her all my life. we understand each other. Its not safe here because of the health risks, I had a week when I couldn’t work because of chest pains caused by inhalation. The Children that do come often get cut. When they get hurt they get taken to the hospital by the others working here, but its tense here.
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  • A machinist working at a small shop in Xingxing village on the outskirts of Shanghai,  China on 14 August 2015.  As Chinas sputtering economy has beginning to affect employment, many migrants who used to live in the village to work on Shanghais numerous construction sites and factories are beginning to thin out.
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  • A female Prison Officer locks the metal gate entrance to D Wing and Healthcare Wing of Her Majesty’s Prison Pentonville, London, United Kingdom.
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  • An Akha subsistence farmer scrapes resin from an illegally grown opium poppy head into a metal container in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • Portrait of a woman holding scrap metal in Dai Bai, a village specialising in copper casting and aluminium hammering, Bac Ninh province, Vietnam. The traditional activity for the village is casting objects such as gongs from copper although everyday objects such as kettles and bowls from aluminium are also made there.
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  • Two men dressed in orange high-visibility work clothes stand next to a row of blue metal storage shipping containers in a self-storage depot on 17th June 2019 in Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces-- in Lao PDR. Before clearance of UXO can take place the site has to cleared of scrub so the lanes can be created and the metal detector doesn’t get stuck. UCT6 Technician Xoua Lor (28) holds a machete that she uses to cut the scrub on the clearance site in Ban Namoune.
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. Before clearance of UXO can take place the site has to cleared of scrub so the lanes can be created and the metal detector doesn’t get stuck. The photograph is of technician, Bouakham Bounmavilay, holding a pile of scrub she has just cut with a large knife.
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  • In an archaeologists' shed at the site of further excavations in Pompeii, Italy, the bones of an ancient Roman citizen is spread out on a metal sheet after being uncovered from Volcanic ash and pumice. Pompeii was buried beneath metres of toxic material from Mount Versuvius in May AD79 and this person was suffocated then crushed from falling debris. Preserved in a shell of volcanic material it is to be examined for desease yielding clues as to its lifestyle and eating habits. The skeletal remains are clearly identifiable with spinal column vertibrae, one jaw still containing teeth and various pieces of bone have been recovered. Many bodies littered a rooftop here proving that many survivors of the first eruption perished after the second many hours later.
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  • A construction site workman carries reflective metal sheeting on to the site of a development on Victoria Street in Westminster, on 30th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • A worker spot welds metal by the Metro construction at Kashmere Gate next to a statue of Asif Ali, Delhi, India
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  • Sarah Nasimiyu is 45 years old and is pictured with her two-year-old Joshua. She has four other children ranging in age from three to thirteen years old. They all work on the dumpsite. She separated from her husband in 2008 because he was always drunk and couldn’t be responsible. She brings Joshua with her to the dumpsite – where she sorts through rubbish in the morning and then sells snacks to the other workers in the afternoon, and has been doing so for four years.<br />
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The Mothers who work on Eldoret’s main dump nick named by the locals,  ironically, as ‘California’ raise their children in Extreme poverty. The consequences for these children and their parents are tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • Sarah Nasimiyu is 45 years old and is pictured with her two-year-old Joshua. She has four other children ranging in age from three to thirteen years old. They all work on the dumpsite. She separated from her husband in 2008 because he was always drunk and couldn’t be responsible. She brings Joshua with her to the dumpsite – where she sorts through rubbish in the morning and then sells snacks to the other workers in the afternoon. The Mothers who work on Eldoret’s main dump nick named by the locals,  ironically, as ‘California’ raise their children in Extreme poverty. The consequences for these children and their parents are tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
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  • The girls of Eldoret dump, left to right: Little Alice (7), Fatila 13), Sarah (15), Vera Atieno (18), Alice Khanali (19) - the last four all live in a slum area called Mwendere, Alice and Vera are mothers, their relatives look after the children so that they can work at the dump.<br />
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Making a living from the local dumps in Eldoret is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work here.  The average wage is around $1.5 a day. These pictures were taken with the help of charity Mary’s Meals who are hoping to break the cycle of poverty by providing free school meals.
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  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • Sarah, at Atnas Kandie Primary School. Sarah was lucky enough to find a sponsor to pay her admission fees and cover her uniform and books – barriers that prohibit many of Kenya’s poorest children from attending the country’s free primary schools. Thanks to the charity Marys Meals she also gets school meal, hugely important when Sarah’s mother is so poor they are often made homeless while saving for the rent. When she is not at school she works on the dumps collecting rubbish for the family to survive. <br />
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Making a living from collecting rubbish in Eldoret is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dump.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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