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  • David Raphael, 35, is showing the scars left on his body by a bomb blast on 24th December 2010. The explosion damaged the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Christian Catholic church located in the Christian-dominated neighbourhood of Kabong, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • A lone Muslim woman is walking by a series of destroyed homes in Dutse Uku, pop. 40.000, a Muslim-dominated neighbourhood in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Residents of Dutse Uku clashed and were attacked by a neighbouring Christian community after local government elections in 2008. 380 houses were destroyed, and around 20 people were killed. All Christians have since then left their homes within the community, in order to resettle in Christian-dominated areas of the city.
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  • A Bedouin family is spending the afternoon in front of their home in the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. .
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  • A Bedouin man is walking near the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. ..
    Bedouin_Negev_Israel_36.JPG
  • Abed El Minam, 52, is sitting in his home inside the unrecognised Bedouin village of Tarrabin el Sana, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. The village, bordering the wealthy Israeli settlement of Omer, is surrounded by barbed wire and bound to be demolished as it is deemed illegal by the authorities, willing to further expand Omer's borders. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Rahim, a 45-year-old Bedouin man, is looking through the hole in the ceiling of his house in unrecognised village of Tarrabin el Sana, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Floods are common in unrecognised villages as Bedouins live in makeshift self-built shacks. The village, bordering the wealthy Israeli settlement of Omer, is surrounded by barbed wire and bound to be demolished as it is deemed illegal by the authorities, willing to further expand Omer's borders. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel.
    Bedouin_Negev_Israel_11.JPG
  • Almas, 5 year-old-girl, and Bilal, 3, her brother, are portrayed while in their house in the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure nor electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel.
    Bedouin_Negev_Israel_09.JPG
  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre) is praying in the early hours of the morning with other pupils in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • The Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, 54, is blessing devotees before celebrating a Mass Service at the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • A Christian woman is walking by an armoured truck providing security for the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, is sitting in her family home in Chittawaliya village, rural Sehore. Ritu lives in the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel by her school, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (front right) is praying in the early hours of the morning with other pupils and Sushila Chourasiya, 53, the assistant warden of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Pupils are having breakfast in the early hours of the morning inside the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, is talking to other pupils during a Skills Development class in the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu lives in the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel by her school, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
    Unicef_Sport_For_Development_MP_Indi...JPG
  • Ritu lives in the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel by her school, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, is kicking a soccer ball in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
    Unicef_Sport_For_Development_MP_Indi...JPG
  • Ritu Gaur, 13, is smiling to her teacher during a class on the roof of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
    Unicef_Sport_For_Development_MP_Indi...JPG
  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre) is playing Ball Relay with other pupils in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
    Unicef_Sport_For_Development_MP_Indi...JPG
  • Muslim children are playing football next to a series of destroyed homes in Dutse Uku, pop. 40.000, a Muslim-dominated neighbourhood in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Residents of Dutse Uku clashed and were attacked by a neighbouring Christian community after local government elections in 2008. 380 houses were destroyed, and around 20 people were killed. All Christians have since then left their homes within the community, in order to resettle in Christian-dominated areas of the city.
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  • A young girl is pulling her father's hand after a Mass Service at Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • The Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, 54, is celebrating a Mass Service at the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
    Jos_Religious_Conflict_Nigeria_31.JPG
  • A woman is walking by a destroyed home in Kakuruk village, Gashish district, in the local government of Barkin Ladi, near Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The village, inhabited by Christians from the Berom tribe, has received various attacks by neighbouring Muslim Fulani - a nomadic cattle-herder tribe non-indigenous to Plateau - with the last one on 7th July, 2012, when more than 30 houses were demolished and 8 Christian villagers killed.
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  • A girl is looking around while priest Norbert Gokum, 40, is celebrating a Mass Service at Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • Austin Jang, 26, a social development worker in the Christian-dominated neighbourhood of Kabong, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Austin is part of the 'Early Warning Team' of Jos, meant to facilitate communication, awareness and reconciliation, in order to prevent further violence between local communities of Christian and Islamic faith.
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  • Devotees are praying while taking part to a Mass Service at Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • Sabha, 49-year-old Bedouin woman, performing traditional weaving for a local organisation selling traditional work made by Bedouin women in the recognised town of Lakyia. Her mother and grandmother did the same, but her two daughters have jobs as teachers in Israeli schools and have refused to learn. The legacy of traditional weaving in her family will stop with Sabha. She makes 15-20 meters of fabric a month in her spare time, earning around 130 NIS (approx. US 20$) per metre. Lakyia Weaving Project has been thought as a way to emancipate women from their husband and empower local women that would have no money for them, or would have their finances in total control of their husband..
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  • A Bedouin pupil is awaiting for the bus home after a day spent at school in the unrecognised village of Abu Tlul, in the Negev Region of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel...
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  • Electrical apparels are stripped and its usable parts recycled for other needs in unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. .
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  • Bedouin children are looking outside from a window of a classrooom in the unrecognised village of Abu Tlul, in the Negev Region of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • The doctor of the only unofficial clinic in the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, is sitting at his desk. The village, located close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel, sits near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. .
    Bedouin_Negev_Israel_38.JPG
  • Electric power lines are running near the village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. .
    Bedouin_Negev_Israel_37.JPG
  • Abu Ali, a 69-years-old Bedouin man, is walking on the land leading to his olive trees in the unrecognised village of Sararat, in West Bank zone C (Israeli controlled), close to Jerusalem, the capital of the country. The Israeli government is forcing him to move from a land he lives in since 50 years. Part of the separation wall aimed at protecting the large Jewish settlements in the area has been planned to pass trough his propriety. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Bakar, 2, is crying at dawn in front of his home  in the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. ..
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  • Bedouin women are studying Arabic in a charity-run local school in the unrecognised village of Gasar Al Sar, close to BeerSheva, in the Nevev Region of Israel. Women that have dropped school to get married even at the early age of 15, they are now having lessons imparted to them by local volunteers, in a way to educate and empower them. Poor education between the local Bedouin communities is considered one of the causes of their scarce achievements in fighting the Government back in their land expropriation policies. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Jamal Alkirnawi, a 27-year-old Bedouin man, is walking by a market hall in the recognised town of Rahat, close to BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Temam, a 80-yeal-old Bedouin woman, is having tea in the Bedouin city of Rahat, close to BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • A young man walking in the unrecognised village of Tarrabin el Sana, close to BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. The village, bordering the wealthy Israeli settlement of Omer, is surrounded by barbed wire and bound to be demolished as it is deemed illegal by the authorities, willing to further expand Omer's borders.  Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Khandra, a 55-year-old Bedouin woman, is making the bread in her house in the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. ..
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  • Randa, a 5-year-old girl is standing by a solar panel in the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. ..
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  • A boy is overlooking the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel.
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  • The shadow of a Bedouin girl is casted on the door of her family house in the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am (pop. 4000), close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, has no infrastructure nor electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel.
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  • Abu Ali, 69 years old, and his wife, Em Ali, are standing on their land in the unrecognised village of Sararat, in West Bank zone C (Israeli controlled), close to Jerusalem, the capital of the country. The Israeli government is forcing him to move from a land he lives in since 50 years. Part of the separation wall aimed at protecting the large Jewish settlements in the area has been planned to pass trough his propriety. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel.
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  • Children are playing in the rubble in the unrecognised Bedouin village of Um Matnan, close to BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Their house has been demolished together with other four, a month before the picture was taken. The five families now live where they used to keep their camels. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • A child is standing barefoot in the unrecognised Bedouin village of Tarrabin el Sana, close to BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. The village, bordering the wealthy Israeli settlement of Omer (visible in the background), is surrounded by barbed wire and bound to be demolished as it is deemed illegal by the authorities, willing to further expand Omer's borders. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel.
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  • A Bedouin woman is looking for reusable material from a rubbish site on the back of her family's house, in the Bedouin city of Rahat, close to BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel...
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  • The unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, is located in close proximity to the Israel Electric Company, in BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. .
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  • Bedouins on their way home to the unrecognised village of Wadi abu Hindi, in the West Bank zone C (Israeli controlled), close to Jerusalem, the capital of the country. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle is now threatened by Governmental policies.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre/right) is sitting with her father, Sanjay, 45, (left) her younger brother, Pawan, 11, and her older sister, Malti, 17, (right) insider their home in Chittawaliya village, rural Sehore,  Ritu lives in the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel by her school, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (left) is walking with her older sister, Malti, 17, (centre) and her younger sister, Shalu, 12, (right) on a road of her village, Chittawaliya, in rural Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Ritu lives in the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre right) is participating to a Skills Development class led by Mr Anil Gulati, (right) Unicef Communication Specialist for Madhya Pradesh, inside the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (left) is taking a pot of drinking water inside the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre) is smiling while consuming a meal inside the MS Jamoniya Tank Schhol, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Ritu lives in the adjacent Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre right) is participating to a Skills Development class focusing on sawing, led by Sushila Chourasiya, 53, the assistant warden of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (second from left) is talking to her roommates inside their dorm in the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (bottom left) is studying on her bed inside a dorm of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre) is stretching in the early hours of the morning with other pupils in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, is reading a text while standing in a classroom of the MS Jamoniya Tank Schhol, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Ritu lives in the adjacent Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre) is throwing a ball towards her classmates while playing Circle Dodgeball in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre) is playing the game of Kabaddi in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • The Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, 54, is serving communion to devotees before celebrating a Mass Service at the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • Christian devotees are talking in front of Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • Muslims children are attending class in Angwan Rogo government school, an institution open to pupils of any religion, but today only attended by Muslims, as it is located inside a Muslim-dominated neighbourhood where no Christian live anymore.
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  • A father (right) and his daughter - carrying a younger sibling - are standing in their destroyed home in Kakuruk village, Gashish district, in the local government of Barkin Ladi, near Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The village, inhabited by Christians from the Berom tribe, has received various attacks by neighbouring Muslim Fulani - a nomadic cattle-herder tribe non-indigenous to Plateau - with the last one on 7th July, 2012, when more than 30 houses were demolished and 8 Christian villagers killed.
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  • Khandra, a 55-year-old Bedouin woman, is making the bread in her house in the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel.  Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel.
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  • A goat is seen in one the 45 unrecognised Bedouin villages of the southern Negev Region of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Bedouin children are playing outside a school in the unrecognised village of Abu Tlul, in the Negev Region of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • A Bedouin family collecting wheat for the making of bread. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Women are collecting eggs in the recognised Bedouin township of Rahat. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Rahim, a 45-year-old Bedouin man, is taking care of his camel in the unrecognised village of Tarrabin el Sana, close to BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. The village, bordering the wealthy Israeli settlement of Omer, is surrounded by barbed wire and bound to be demolished as it is deemed illegal by the authorities, willing to further expand Omer's borders. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Bedouin woman with her herd in the unrecognised Bedouin village of Um Matnan, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Their house has been demolished together with other four, a month before the picture was taken. The five families now live where they used to keep their camels. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • A Bedouin man is sitting by the rubble of a house put down by Israeli forces, on in the unrecognised Bedouin village of Tarrabin el Sana, close to BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. The village, bordering the wealthy Israeli settlement of Omer, is surrounded by barbed wire and bound to be demolished as it is deemed illegal by the authorities, willing to further expand Omer's borders. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (left) is participating to a Skills Development class focusing on drawing, in the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (centre) is praying before receiving a meal inside the MS Jamoniya Tank Schhol, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Ritu lives in the adjacent Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Two girls studying at the MS Jamoniya Tank Schhol, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, are preparing a welcoming Hindu 'rangoli' in the early hours of the morning, in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (fourth in the left line) is celebrating her team's victory in the game of Hurdle Race in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (top left near ball) is playing in a circle with other pupils in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, is Skipping Rope in front of the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, (right) is holding the hand of her best friend, Aruna, 13, while standing inside the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Ritu Gaur, 13, is sitting in her family home in Chittawaliya village, rural Sehore, while her mother Mohini, 37, is caressing her hair. Ritu lives in the Jamoniya Tank Girls Hostel by her school, near Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Unicef India Sport For Development Project has started in 2012. Covering 313 state-run girls’ hostels and 207 mixed hostels in Madhya Pradesh, the project ensures that children from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and others amongst the poorest people in India, can easily access education and be introduced to sports. Field workers from Unicef also oversee their nutrition and monitor the overall conditions of each pupil.
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  • Priest Norbert Gokum, 40, is blessing a newborn child while celebrating a Mass Service at Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • Muslims children are attending class in Angwan Rogo government school, an institution open to pupils of any religion, but today only attended by Muslims, as it is located inside a Muslim-dominated neighbourhood where no Christian live anymore.
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  • Youngsters are learning computer skills at a Vocational Training Centre run by Apurimac, an Italian NGO funded by the Saint Augustinian Order in Rome.
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  • The choir is singing passionately during a Mass Service celebrated by the Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, 54, at the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • A Muslim boy is writing on the blackboard while being supervised by his teacher in Angwan Rogo government school, an institution open to pupils of any religion, but today only attended by Muslims, as it is located inside a Muslim-dominated neighbourhood where no Christian live anymore.
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  • Christian devotees are walking outside a security gate after a Mass Service celebrated by the Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, 54, at the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • A woman devotee is praying while taking part to a Mass Service at Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • Devotees are taking part to a Mass Service at Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • David Raphael, 35, is showing the scars left on his face by a bomb blast on 24th December 2010. The explosion damaged the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Christian Catholic church located in the Christian-dominated neighbourhood of Kabong, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • Parts of a car, once used by a suicide bomber, are left amid rubble where a Pentecostal church was once standing in the Christian-majority neighbourhood of Kabong, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Christ Chosen Church was demolished by the bomb blast on June 11th, 2012. Shortly after, iIrate Christian youth mobs went into an offensive, killing at least 7 innocent Muslims and injuring many others.
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  • The Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, 54, is about to celebrate a Mass Service at the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • A Bedouin man is walking by an open sewage canal close to one the 45 unrecognised villages of the southern Negev Region of Israel, Gasar Al Sar. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Bedouin children are walking by garbage in one the 45 unrecognised villages of the southern Negev Region of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • Bedouin family homes stand in unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. .
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  • A partially blind Bedouin man is portrayed in the unrecognised village of Wadi el Na'am, pop. 4000, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Wadi el Na'am is located near a large industrial site, Ramat Hovav, and has no infrastructure or electric energy. Water is provided only via storage tanks. It has no health services as the only clinic is deemed illegal and bound to be demolished, as the rest of the structures in the area. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel. .
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  • Temam, a 80-yeal-old Bedouin woman, is portrayed in the Bedouin city of Rahat, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel.
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  • Sami, a 24-year-old Bedouin man, is smoking water-pipe in the Sababa Cafe, in Rahat, close to Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel...
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  • Sabha, 49-year-old Bedouin woman, performing traditional weaving for a local organisation selling traditional work made by Bedouin women in the recognised town of Lakyia. Her mother and grandmother did the same, but her two daughters have jobs as teachers in Israeli schools and have refused to learn. The legacy of traditional weaving in her family will stop with Sabha. She makes 15-20 meters of fabric a month in her spare time, earning around 130 NIS (approx. US 20$) per metre. Lakyia Weaving Project has been thought as a way to emancipate women from their husband and empower local women that would have no money for them, or would have their finances in total control of their husband.
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  • Em Ali, 68, is holding family-grown wheat in her hands. A mother of 5 boys and 6 girls, she is one of 19 children born from her parents. She lives in the unrecognised village of Sararat, in West Bank zone C (Israeli controlled), close to Jerusalem, the capital of the country. She is showing part of the self-grown wheat they traditionally crop on the land around the village. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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  • A Bedouin boy is waiting by a water tank in the unrecognised village of Adba, in the Negev Region of Israel. Water is stored in tanks, and there are daily problems in providing fresh and drinkable water for the residents of unrecognised villages. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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