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  • Department for Work and Pensions in London, England, United Kingdom. The Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to over 22 million claimants.
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  • Department for Work and Pensions in London, England, United Kingdom. The Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to over 22 million claimants.
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  • Department for Work and Pensions in London, England, United Kingdom. The Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to over 22 million claimants.
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  • Department for Work and Pensions in London, England, United Kingdom. The Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to over 22 million claimants.
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  • Department for Work and Pensions in London, England, United Kingdom. The Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to over 22 million claimants.
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  • Men at work sign in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Men at work sign in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Men at work sign in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Men at work sign in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Dont work graffiti in Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Dont work graffiti in Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Commuters walk across London bridge to get to work in the City of London, UK. Thousands of commuters arrive into London Bridge station everyday and walk to work.
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  • Commuters walk across London bridge to get to work in the City of London, UK. Thousands of commuters arrive into London Bridge station everyday and walk to work.
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  • Commuters walk across London bridge to get to work in the City of London, UK. Thousands of commuters arrive into London Bridge station everyday and walk to work.
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  • Commuters walk across London bridge to get to work in the City of London, UK. Thousands of commuters arrive into London Bridge station everyday and walk to work.
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  • Commuters walk across London bridge to get to work in the City of London, UK. Thousands of commuters arrive into London Bridge station everyday and walk to work.
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  • Commuters walk across London bridge to get to work in the City of London, UK. Thousands of commuters arrive into London Bridge station everyday and walk to work.
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  • Men at work sign with devils horns in the City of London on 28th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. The City of London is a historic financial district, home to both the great banking buildings. Modern corporate skyscrapers tower above the vestiges of medieval alleyways below.
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  • Commuters walk across London bridge to get to work in the City of London, UK. Thousands of commuters arrive into London Bridge station everyday and walk to work.
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  • Men at work sign in the City of London on 28th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. The City of London is a historic financial district, home to both the great banking buildings. Modern corporate skyscrapers tower above the vestiges of medieval alleyways below.
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  • Busy scene on Oxford Street as people cycle past a men at work sign in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Busy scene on Oxford Street as people cycle past a men at work sign in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Busy scene on Oxford Street as people cycle past a men at work sign in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Busy scene on Oxford Street as people cycle past a men at work sign in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • City workers enjoying an after work pint outside the Lamb Tavern pub in Leadenhall Market in the City of London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • An actor plays the part of an office worker, toiling away at a desk-top PC while outside in the courtyard of the Z33 art gallery in Hasselt, Limburg Belgium. The lady artist sits typing at an imaginary work station with jackets hanging on a coat stand and with her area marked out in sand on the gravel. This incongruous scene is played out during the gallery's 'Werk Nu' (Work Now) exhibition that reflected upon the concept and meaning of ‘work’ in our present society, with issues such as flexibility, mobility, motivation, significance, and the work-life balance are dealt with. The art works in ‘Work Now’ are direct or ambiguous, whimsical.
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  • Seen from a position on Southwark Bridge, we look westwards to see an office worker communicating on the telephone while referring to some paperwork. His computer monitor is on the desk next to him and beyond on the south bank, the evening sky is going purple and another office tower block's lights are on and the water of the River Thames is coloured blue. We see the office as a box, a work place where people are often separated from others by walls and partitions, creating an isolating work environment.
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  • Polish builders at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Pawel Solnica puts the  finishing touches to the plaster work on the end wall. Pawel Solnica is a highly skilled plasterer from Poland who have lived and worked in the UK for years.
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  • Polish builder Pawel Solnica at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Pawel Solnica  and his Polish colleagues are all highly skilled builders and have lived and worked in London for years. Pawel Solnica is finishing off the plaster work on the end wall.
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  • The writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton leans against the wheel of a traditional dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. De Botton is in the Maldives researching his book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' about the world of Work, published in April 2009. Here he accompanies a fishing boat crew who use hand and line methods to land yellow fin tuna for export to the EU and in particular, Sainsbury's supermarket. Barefoot on the roof of the wheelhouse and with the top of his pen in mouth, he looks thoughfully into the distance to think of more great ideas for his best-selling book. Alain de Botton (born Zurich, 1969) now lives in London. His best-selling books refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
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  • Workmen busy at work resurfacing the street on Tottenham Court Road in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Workmen busy at work resurfacing the street on Tottenham Court Road in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Workmen busy at work resurfacing the street on Tottenham Court Road in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Rob Watson, call centre operative. Robs individual hair suggest a life outside work that is more fun, at least maybe that is the intended impression. Office workers have little opportunity to express themselves because of the constraints of the office dress code. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Polish builder Dawid Krasuwski at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Dawid Krasuwski and his Polish colleagues are all highly skilled builders and have lived and worked in London for years. Pawel Solnica is finishing off the plaster work below.
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  • As a sleeping homeless man lies curled up in his sleeping bag on a central London pavement, two window cleaners have carefully placed their ladders at his feet to clean a Boots the chemist sign. Each wearing identical blue working overalls and each wiping the frontage with their left hands, the men are symbolic of the working man versus that of a homeless person without a job, prospects or perhaps a future. The wide gap between hopelessness and the pride of one's achievement is shown here on the sidewalk of modern-day Britain. London is home to some 50,000 homeless people whose place of rest can often be recesses and shop doorways where they seek sanctuary from the cold and street violence. On the opposite end of the wealth and social divides are those who seek work with a positive outlook on life.
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  • Employees in a central London office work dilligently alongside the reminders of vacations that colleagues and friends have taken. Picture postcard souvenirs have been lined up as a display of the perfect holiday when they have returned to work to put their shoulders to the grindstone. It is a scene of wishful thinking, of 'wish you were here!' and of looking forward to the next break from the toil of their careers so by showing the idyllic locations of their dreams with these visual reminders, can they imagine the beauty of these places: Tenby in south Wales, the Lake District in northern England and a country hall set in, perhaps, the Scottish  hills. An out of focus worker stares intensely into his PC, perhaps thinking of escapism and a life outside these four walls.
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  • A female Nepalese teacher marks her students work book while he watches and the rest of the class of children continue to work.  They are in a class room at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  The children’s parents are carpet factory workers, and they have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation’s Impact Award.
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  • Work by artists The Toasters. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
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  • Workmen busy at work resurfacing the street on Tottenham Court Road in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Dennis Orme, age 84 and still working as a computer operative at a small firm in Cape Town showing that age does not have to be abarrier to work. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Desmond Hunt, Car salesman at work, From a series of portraits of car salesmen taken in the southern states of America.
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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.The photograph shows UCT6 walking a short distance through the village of Ban Namoune to start work clearing UXO at 8am. The photograph shows UCT6 walking a short distance through the village of Ban Namoune to start work clearing UXO at 8am.
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  • These girls are all thought to be children at work. The carpet factories are small and cramped and can be found in small buildings and ware houses around the Kathmandu valley. The Good Weave Foundation's inspectors  have no mandate in this little factory employing 20-30 people and  at least 3 children were seen working the looms. The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal.
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  • The girl in pink is thought to be a minor at work. The carpet factories are small and cramped and can be found in small buildings and ware houses around the Kathmandu valley. The Good Weave Foundation's inspectors  have no mandate in this little factory employing 20-30 people and  at least 3 children were seen working the looms. The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal.
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  • Gauchos saddling up to begin the days work on ranch
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  • Reaching out to a tower of scaffolding, high above the skyline of North London, a member of a company of abseiling construction scaffold workers make use of circus skills. Suspended with ropes, carabinas and a seat harness normally used by mountaineers, this man is wearing a safety helmet and blue overalls and his dirty gloved hand is about to make contact with yellow iron work as his colleague looks skyward, already tethered to the reinforced structure. A 60s tower block is immediately behind and suburban houses and streets are below. We see a man about to make contact with a place of safety, reaching out to his destination while spread across London's skies. Lit by flash, this picture is confusing because the viewer sees a false sense of size and scale between the iron work and the flats behind.
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  • A female Nepalese teacher marks her students work book while he watches and the rest of the class of children continue to work.  They are in a class room at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  The children’s parents are carpet factory workers, and they have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation’s Impact Award.
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  • A work crew floats down the Regents Canal on a misty morning on 27th of November 2020 in Hackney, London, United Kingdom. The crew is from the Canal and River Trust and are on their way further up the canal. In the back ground are the now abandoned gas works with its structures disappearing in the mist.
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  • Polish builders at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Dawid Krasuwski a highly skilled builder from Poland who have lived and worked in London for years.
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  • Polish builders at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Grzegorz and Dawid Krasuwski, both highly skilled builders from Poland who have lived and worked in London for years.
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  • Polish builders at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Boss Blazez Luczkiewicz, Pawel Solnica and Dawid Krasuwski discuss the next days task atthe end of the day. Blazez Luczkiewicz and his Polish employees are all highly skilled builders and have lived and worked in London for years.
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  • Polish builders at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Dawid Krasuwski a highly skilled builder from Poland who have lived and worked in London for years.
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  • Polish builder Dawid Krasuwski at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Dawid Krasuwski and his Polish colleagues are all highly skilled builders and have lived and worked in London for years.
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  • Polish builders at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Dawid Krasuwski R and his Polish colleagues are all highly skilled builders and have lived and worked in London for years.
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  • Polish builders at work in a flat in Hackney 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Grzegorz L and boss Blazez Luczkiewicz whos company is based in London. Blazez Luczkiewicz and his Polish employees are all highly skilled builders and have lived and worked in London for years.
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  • Polish builder Dawid Krasuwski at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Dawid Krasuwski and his Polish colleagues are all highly skilled builders and have lived and worked in London for years.
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  • Polish builder Dawid Krasuwski at work in a flat in Hackney on 17th February in London, United Kingdom. Dawid Krasuwski and his Polish colleagues are all highly skilled builders and have lived and worked in London for years.
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  • Workmen from Stewart Signs organise the hanging of a temporary printed media hanging outside a Dior shop being refurbished in central London. The imagery is that of a fantasy garden with models placed around the landscape while construction work carries on in front and behind the screen. Reaching across the width of the picture, we see the employees in hi-visibility clothing, arranging the sheets before they're hoisted up into position on the side of the building. The Dior store occupies a prime location on one of London's most prestigious streets known for fashion and jewellery and work continues behind the screen, hidden to passers-by.
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  • A workman from Stewart Signs organises the hanging of a temporary printed media hanging outside a Dior shop being refurbished in central London. The imagery is that of a fantasy garden with models placed around the landscape while construction work carries on in front and behind the screen. Reaching across the width of the picture, we see an employee in hi-visibility clothing, arranging the sheets before they're hoisted up into position on the side of the building. The Dior store occupies a prime location on one of London's most prestigious streets known for fashion and jewellery and work continues behind the screen, hidden to passers-by.
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  • Two models on a street shoot with the background of hanging hoarding media, of a Dior shop being refurbished in central London. Pausing during being filmed across the street, the two young people stand on the pavement, their scale and perspective looking incongruous to the barriers placed against the illustration that shows an incongruous fantasy garden with models placed around the landscape while construction work carries on in front and behind the screen. The Dior store occupies a prime location on one of London's most prestigious streets known for fashion and jewellery and work continues behind the screen, hidden to passers-by.
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  • A background of hanging hoarding media, of a Dior shop being refurbished in central London. Barriers have been placed against the illustration that shows an incongruous <br />
fantasy garden with models placed around the landscape while construction work carries on in front and behind the screen. The Dior store occupies a prime location on one of London's most prestigious streets known for fashion and jewellery and work continues behind the screen, hidden to passers-by.
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  • With a background of hanging hoarding media, young black men walk past a Dior shop being refurbished in central London. The imagery is that of a fantasy garden with models placed around the landscape while construction work carries on in front and behind the screen. Walking past the image of femininity and gender, the urban boys enjoy their own company out in the city. The Dior store occupies a prime location on one of London's most prestigious streets known for fashion and jewellery and work continues behind the screen, hidden to passers-by.
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  • With a background of hanging hoarding media, two young women walk past a Dior shop being refurbished in central London. The imagery is that of a fantasy garden with models placed around the landscape while construction work carries on in front and behind the screen. Walking past the image of femininity and gender, the modern girls enjoy their day out shopping. The Dior store occupies a prime location on one of London's most prestigious streets known for fashion and jewellery and work continues behind the screen, hidden to passers-by.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Sameer Iqbal,10, holding the chewing gum he sells on the street, with his social worker, Shafiq, at Ashiana headquarters in Kabul. This charity works with vulnerable children. <br />
“I make almost a dollar a day selling chewing gum, half as much as my mother, my father Is crippled”<br />
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Ashiana, a charity working with vulnerable young people, is run by Mohammed Yousef who set it up in 1995.<br />
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They  work with 4500 children in Kabul, Parwan, Mazar-e-Sharif, and Heart  running activities for street and working children, returnees, displaced child soldiers and similar vulnerable children offering education recreation and respite.<br />
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“Life for the working children is very stressful. They are at risk from abusive adults, dangerous traffic, suicide explosions and their dysfunctional families. They are stressed at home and on the street there is no room for them to be children. We are here to provide them with some respite.”
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  • A boarded up central London mini cab business and an End of works triangle sign on a Holborn corner. The visual pun plays off the triangular sign that tells us that work has ended, a message we also understand from the plyboard attached to the former business premises, securing it from vandals, squatters or illegal occupation. A security light burns 24/7 and the old cab office's details along with the property agent's.
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  • Seen from slightly behind, a young woman stands taking shelter from early evening rain in Goodge Street, London England. Holding a lit cigarette in her left hand and with an unused ashtray to her right, she is chatting with friends who are also enjoying a relaxing hour after work. Under the UK Government's recent laws on smoking in public places, the work mates are forced outside the pub to smoke on the street in a special area away from the anti-smoking people indoors. Lit by glowing red lights that also provide warmth on this chilly January night, the friends are comfortable in their own company.
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  • In the shadow of 1 Canada Square, the iconic Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands stands as an icon for Thatcherite Britain when the good times, prosperity and economic upturns seemed unshakeable. Four work colleagues stand under a hot lunchtime sun during a summer heatwave. In their shirtsleeves the men each hold pints of refreshing lager, all having removed their dark jackets to enjoy the company of a flirtatious female who appears to be flirting with an older male companion. The sky is blue and the five are care-free to any future economic uncertainty.
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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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  • An elderly gentleman wearing a traditional bowler hat and carrying an umbrella, pauses to read the headlines in the London Evening Standard newspaper, before making his way home from Bank Triangle, outside the Bank of England. He is one of the last examples of a bygone age, when many in London's financial district wore such work clothes - a way of typifying a cretain breed of Englishness and class system, known all over, and still expected, around the world. Sadly, gents like this are very rare after modern fashions, lower standards and changed attitudes in the workplace meant that younger men no longer wanted to wear a stuffy outfit to work. The days of the bowler are fast disappearing.
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  • A Mahindra backhoe loader and construction team working on the road to Raniswara, on the 3rd of March 2020 in Ghairung, Gorkha, Nepal.  This team of road workers have increased the width of this mountain road to improve safety, this type of work happen regularly and traffic waits for it to be passable again.
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  • A workers carries saw dust to soak up the mud  at Shangri-la at the Glastonbury Festival 21th July 2016, Somerset, United Kingdom. Shangri-la is a venue at the festival with  art and politics mixed with tunes and all night club nights. Work getting the festival ready takes weeks and in the days up to the festival starts work is frantic.  The Glastonbury Festival runs over 3 days and has 3000 acts, including music, art and performance and approx. 150.000 attend the anual event.
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  • A model on temporary printed media hanging outside a Dior shop being refurbished in central London. Seemingly hiding behind the trunk of an urban tree, we see the beauty of the Dior woman, in the setting of  a fantasy garden where other models placed around the landscape while construction work carries on in front and behind the screen. The Dior store occupies a prime location on one of London's most prestigious streets known for fashion and jewellery and work continues behind the screen, hidden to passers-by.
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  • Correct work identified on concrete ground on New York City construction site. An X marks the spot where a good join has been made of concrete flooring on the roof of a new apartment building in lower Manhattan, New York City.
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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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  • Calligrapher at work in his Beijing studio, keeping alive an ancient traditional art form which is still much revered in China.
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  • Bejoy George, and IT consultant heads to work during Bangalore's rush hour, India
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  • A male passenger is asleep with his mouth open, leaning his head on a bus window as it passes the background pillars of the Bank of England in the financial district City of London. On the exterior of the bus are the words: "We've got to get this city to work," an advertising slogan used by London Transport to seduce commuters from their cars and back on to public transport which is one of the most expensive world capitals on which to travel by bus, train or underground. This style of bus is a traditional design called a 'Routemaster' which has been in service on the capital's roads since 1954 and is nowadays only seen on heritage routes such as these destination: Victoria, Bond Street, Oxford Street, Holborn and Bank (the Bank of England). From any angle, the bus is easily recognisable as that classic British transport icon.  The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • On both sides of the railway track, thousands of commuters desperate to get home after a long day at work in central London, line the platforms to we see from an aerial perspective. But the rail workers’ union has called for industrial action and there are no trains yet for these passengers to board for north or southbound services. Sensibly away from the edges, people are standing up to six-deep in anticipation of a ride home as the exodus to the suburbs hits its peak time. 37 per cent of workers in the capital used rail or underground travel as their main form of transport to work, according to regional and local statistics compiled by the Office for National Statistics.
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  • With great care, two surgeons work intensely during an open heart procedure at the private Health Care International hospital, They wear hygienic face masks and do their intricate work carefully. This hospital delivered only high-end medicine to foreign patients and telemedicine was popular in the 90s when a growing awareness of the potential benefits of advanced medicine, emerging democracies, growing middle classes and an ageing population world-wide established locations like this in Scotland. But they were expensive to build and run and this hospital at Clydebank of up to 500 beds catered primarily for foreigners who flew into Glasgow airport, was built with the assistance of £30 million of public money, went into receivership when its target of overseas business was slower to build-up impacting its cash flows.
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  • Surgeons perform an operation during a procedure at the private Health Care International hospital. With great care, two surgeons work intensely wearing hygienic facemasks and perform their intricate work carefully. This hospital delivered only high-end medicine to foreign patients and telemedicine was popular in the 90s when a growing awareness of the potential benefits of advanced medicine, emerging democracies, growing middle classes and an ageing population worldwide established locations like this in Scotland. But they were expensive to build and run and this hospital at Clydebank of up to 500 beds catered primarily for foreigners who flew into Glasgow airport, was built with the assistance of £30 million of public money, went into receivership when its target of overseas business was slower to build-up impacting its cash flows.
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  • A lady concentrates in a cluttered office unit beneath corporate artwork in Ernst & Young's Norman Foster-designed building. The oval-shaped picture depicts an esasperated-looking female rolling her eyes to the ceiling while her contemporary below stares down at her laptop surrounded by the paraphernalia of her accounting London job. Dressed in an open-neck shirt and wearing glasses, the woman at work is busy and preoccupied with the job in hand of auditing a company's accounts. Despite all the 385,000 square feet in the European headquarters on the River Thames, there is no spare space in this tiny office that she shares with another employee. The Fine Art has been supplied by Anderson O'Day and E & Y have invested in 500,000 Pounds of office art for their 114,000 employees in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world.
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  • Employees of the former US giant ENRO corporation at the London offices in March 2000, stand at the doors to a lift (elevator) amid glass and polished steel. We are looking up at them from the ground floor as they wait for the lift to bring them down the building’s atrium. This is in the months before the company’s subsequent collapse with the loss of 22,000 people worldwide. Enron Corporation was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy in 2001, Enron was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, pulp and paper, and communications companies, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000. Oblivious to their employer’s troubles, the two men seem relaxed in this workplace which allowed them to work in casually dress, rather than in formal suits, an apparent hallmark of the company’s lax work ethic.
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  • An elderly gentleman wearing a traditional bowler hat and carrying a folded newspaper descends the steps from the bright daylight to the dark of the London Underground, before making his way home from Royal Exchange at Bank Triangle by tube. He is one of the last examples of a bygone age, when many in London's financial district wore such work clothes - a way of typifying a breed of Englishness and class system, known all over, and still expected, around the world. Sadly, gents like this are very rare after modern fashions, lower standards and changed attitudes in the workplace meant that younger men no longer wanted to wear a stuffy outfit to work. The days of the bowler are fast disappearing. Behind him are the tall and solid Corinthian pillars of the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite.
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  • A female Nepalese teacher assess the work of one of her female students in a class room at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  The children’s parents are carpet factory workers, and they have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation’s Impact Award.
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  • Airline headphone sorting. Piece work. £5 per week. £6 if enhanced. plus £6 per 500. Each one is stripped, re-sponged, folded and bagged. HM Prison Downview is a women's closed category prison. Downview is located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Downview Prison holds adult Sentenced Female prisoners and convicted and remanded female juveniles. The prison holds approximately 50% foreign nationals. Downview is divided into 4 Wings, A,B,C,D (D wing is a resettlement Wing), and the Juvenile Unit. All wings have single cell accommodation with in-cell electricity. The prison offers vocational training courses and NVQs for inmates. The resettlement wing provides opportunities for inmates to work and receive education outside the prison.
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  • Airline headphone sorting. Piece work. £5 per week. £6 if enhanced. plus £6 per 500. Each one is stripped, re-sponged, folded and bagged. HM Prison Downview is a women's closed category prison. Downview is located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Downview Prison holds adult Sentenced Female prisoners and convicted and remanded female juveniles. The prison holds approximately 50% foreign nationals. Downview is divided into 4 Wings, A,B,C,D (D wing is a resettlement Wing), and the Juvenile Unit. All wings have single cell accommodation with in-cell electricity. The prison offers vocational training courses and NVQs for inmates. The resettlement wing provides opportunities for inmates to work and receive education outside the prison.
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  • A work crew open a lock on Regents Canal on a misty morning on 27th of November 2020 in Hackney, London, United Kingdom. The crew is from the Canal and River Trust and are on their way further up the canal.
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  • A work crew open a lock on Regents Canal on a misty morning on 27th of November 2020 in Hackney, London, United Kingdom. The crew is from the Canal and River Trust and are on their way further up the canal.
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  • A work crew open a lock on Regents Canal on a misty morning on 27th of November 2020 in Hackney, London, United Kingdom. The crew is from the Canal and River Trust and are on their way further up the canal.
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  • A work crew open a lock on Regents Canal on a misty morning on 27th of November 2020 in Hackney, London, United Kingdom. The crew is from the Canal and River Trust and are on their way further up the canal.
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  • Seen from a passing train carriage window, an engineering work gang inspect rail equipment outside Waterloo mainline station, on 12th November 2020, in London, England.
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  • Women carrying a bag of cement during the construction of a path from their village to a local shrine on the 3rd of March 2020 in Raniswara, Ghairung, Gorkha, Nepal.  Construction in small mountain villages is a whole community effort, men and women of all ages work equally to construct paths and roads in the area.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl on a break. Carl and Craig work  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing seaon they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping, with JCB diggers working in the foreground with Canary Wharf and the Docklands Financial District as the background in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
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  • Construction work underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel or Super Sewer on the River Thames near Wapping, with JCB diggers working in the foreground with Canary Wharf and the Docklands Financial District as the background in London, England, United Kingdom. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction civil engineering project 25 km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.
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