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  • An almost empty food cupboard in a family home in Hackney, London, United Kingdom.  The family have recently been pushed into poverty by changes to the Government’s welfare system and they now live below the poverty line, alongside an estimate 13 million other people in the UK.  The cupboard contains tea bags, coffee, baked beans and a loaf of bread.
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  • A female volunteer prepares an emergency food package at Wadebridge foodbank, North Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The food bank is part of the Trussell Trust charity which provides assistance to individuals and families in crisis and living below the poverty line.
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  • A female volunteer prepares an emergency food package at Wadebridge foodbank, North Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The food bank is part of the Trussell Trust charity which provides assistance to individuals and families in crisis and living below the poverty line.
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  • Two female volunteers prepare an emergency food package at Wadebridge foodbank, North Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The food bank is part of the Trussell Trust charity which provides assistance to individuals and families in crisis and living below the poverty line.
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  • An almost empty fridge containing only a half empty pint of milk in Hackney, London, United Kingdom. It reflects the increasing number of people who are unable to afford food and live below the poverty line in the UK. Every day people in the UK go hungry for reasons ranging from redundancy to receiving an unexpected bill on a low income.
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  • Shelves of Food Bank boxes waiting for distribution at Wadebridge foodbank, North Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Single person and family boxes have been prepared by volunteers for people who are living in poverty and unable to buy food.
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  • Two female volunteers prepare an emergency food package at Wadebridge foodbank, North Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The food bank is part of the Trussell Trust charity which provides assistance to individuals and families in crisis and living below the poverty line.
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  • A female volunteer prepares an emergency food package at Wadebridge foodbank, North Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The food bank is part of the Trussell Trust charity which provides assistance to individuals and families in crisis and living below the poverty line.
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  • Sue Ferns, President of the TUC, addresses campaigners against fuel poverty from Fuel Poverty Action FPA and the National Pensioners Convention outside Parliament to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Ruth London l of Fuel Poverty Action FPA addresses fellow campaigners against fuel poverty and the National Pensioners Convention outside 10 Downing Street during a protest to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • A campaigner against fuel poverty attends a protest outside Parliament by Fuel Poverty Action FPA and the National Pensioners Convention to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • A wreath brought by campaigners from Fuel Poverty Action FPA and the National Pensioners Convention to a protest outside Parliament to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” is pictured on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Ruth London of Fuel Poverty Action FPA prepares to hand in a letter for 10 Downing Street during a protest to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • The National Pensioners Convention march with Fuel Poverty Action FPA from Parliament to Downing Street to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Fuel Poverty Action FPA and the National Pensioners Convention protest outside Parliament to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Ruth London of Fuel Poverty Action FPA protests with the National Pensioners Convention outside Parliament to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    MK-20211126-Winter-Deaths-Protest-We...jpg
  • Campaigners from Fuel Poverty Action FPA and the National Pensioners Convention march from Parliament to 10 Downing Street to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    MK-20211126-Winter-Deaths-Protest-We...jpg
  • Fuel Poverty Action FPA and the National Pensioners Convention march from Parliament to Downing Street to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Ruth London c of Fuel Poverty Action FPA and Barry Todman r of the National Pensioners Convention hand in letters for 10 Downing Street to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • The National Pensioners Convention protest with Fuel Poverty Action FPA outside Parliament to mark the release of statistics on “excess winter deaths” on 26th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The campaigners, including many pensioners, also handed in two letters for 10 Downing Street. Around 10,000 people die in the UK every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, but statistics are likely to be even higher now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Father Ken , A spiritual leader to the workers of the dump , he guides them and encourages them to attend his church . He is also a taxi driver. <br />
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Making a living from the local dump in Eldoret is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dump.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day. 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, 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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  • Lucy (13 ) photographed in one of the classrooms at Attnas Kandie School.<br />
She collects rubbish when she’s not at school. She is one of five children – the eldest is at college but the other siblings help to support him by sorting rubbish. Lucy’s mum sometimes washes clothes for other people but is sick and can’t often earn enough to feed the children. Lucy is now in primary school and gets lunch there every day thanks to Mary’s Meals.<br />
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Making a living from collecting rubbish is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dumps in Eldoret.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. Tined rice pudding, ready to be distributed. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. Food donated is weighed in and registrered. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. Food ready to be distributed into food parcels. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. Food donations ready to be distributed into food parcels.The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. It is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting tolerance education programs.
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  • Sarah, at Atnas Kandie Primary School. Sarah was lucky enough to find a sponsor to pay her admission fees and cover her uniform and books – barriers that prohibit many of Kenya’s poorest children from attending the country’s free primary schools. Thanks to the charity Marys Meals she also gets school meal, hugely important when Sarah’s mother is so poor they are often made homeless while saving for the rent. When she is not at school she works on the dumps collecting rubbish for the family to survive. <br />
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Making a living from collecting rubbish in Eldoret is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dump.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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  • A woman collects rubbish for recycling at the dump; plastic, clothes, charcoal, metal even food for humans and livestock are all reclaimed for cash or personal use . <br />
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Making a living from the local dumps in Eldoret is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work here.  The average wage is around $1.5 a day. These pictures were taken with the help of charity Mary’s Meals who are hoping to break the cycle of poverty by providing free school meals.
    Eldoret10_1.jpg
  • 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.
    Eldoret01_1.jpg
  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. Tined rice pudding, ready to be distributed. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. Food donated to the food bank is taken from a car to the ware house. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. Two women hand over food donations to food bank workers. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. A basket of a family food parcel. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. Donated food ready to be distributed across Hackney. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. A sign describing what goes in a family food parcel. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank bank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. Food donations ready to be distributed into food parcels.The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank bank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Workers and volunteers at Hackney Foodbank receive and organize food donations, 15th of December 2021, Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. One kilo bags of sugar is decanted into 100gr sealed bags for distribution. The Hackney Food Bank is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The food bank gives out three days emergency food supplies to families and individual who go hungry in the borrough. The food is all donated by individuals and the food donated is held in a small ware house where it is  sorted and packed for distribution.  More people than ever in Britain have turned to the food bank for help and in Hackney the need has gone up with 350% over the past two years.
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  • Lucy (13 ) photographed in one of the classrooms at Attnas Kandie School. She collects rubbish when she’s not at school. She is one of five children – the eldest is at college but the other siblings help to support him by sorting rubbish. Lucy’s mum sometimes washes clothes for other people but is sick and can’t often earn enough to feed the children. Lucy is now in primary school and gets lunch there every day thanks to Mary’s Meals. Making a living from collecting rubbish is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dumps in Eldoret.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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  • A homeless person in a sleeping bag huddles up on the floor in the doorway of a permanently closed and vandalised high street retail unit as research from charity Crisis suggests the countrys ongoing cost of living crisis could exacerbate poverty and, by extension, homelesness, by 2024, on 14th July, 2022 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
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  • A young child dressed in shorts and trainers walks past the vandalised and dirty shutters of a fast food takeaway shop advertising pizzas, curries, burgers, and kebabs, as new research suggests the countrys ongoing cost of living crisis could push a further half a million children below the poverty line on 5th April, 2022 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
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  • A man and a woman pass graffiti on a row of terraced houses pointing in the direction of a community food bank project in Harehills, one of the most deprived areas in Leeds, as the Resolution Foundation think tank warns millions of households in the country could be forced into poverty by soaring costs of food and energy on 25th March, 2022 in Leeds, United Kingdom. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has come under criticism from several parties suggesting that financial measures outlined in his Spring Statement were insufficient for those lowest income families in Britain.
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  • Peoples Assembly cost of living crisis demonstration on 12th February 2022 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. With some governments in other countries taking steps to protect the public by capping energy bills, freezing prices or covering 80% of excess bills, or applying a windfall tax to energy companies on top of corporation tax, the People’s Assembly Against Austerity is asking the question why these measures can’t happen in the UK. With energy bills rising, tax and National Insurance increasing, fuel prices continuing to rise along with average grocery prices, the cost of living crisis is gripping millions of households, especially those of low and medium incomes which is driving many people into fuel poverty.
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  • Peoples Assembly cost of living crisis demonstration on 12th February 2022 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. With some governments in other countries taking steps to protect the public by capping energy bills, freezing prices or covering 80% of excess bills, or applying a windfall tax to energy companies on top of corporation tax, the People’s Assembly Against Austerity is asking the question why these measures can’t happen in the UK. With energy bills rising, tax and National Insurance increasing, fuel prices continuing to rise along with average grocery prices, the cost of living crisis is gripping millions of households, especially those of low and medium incomes which is driving many people into fuel poverty.
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  • Two squatters, a man and his son, photographed at a half demolished building that serves as their home near Huzhou, China on 20 August 2009.
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  • A young boy walks across the rail tracks covered by rotting rubish / trash inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
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  • Residents watch the time go by inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
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  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
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  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
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  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0190_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0187_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0182_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their business watched over by an armed soldier inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0094_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their daily business inside Kibera Slum , Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0100_1_1.jpg
  • A young woman looks out of her home inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0066_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their business inside rubbish / trash infested Kibera Slum,  Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0260_1_1.jpg
  • A young boy walks across the rail tracks covered by rotting rubish / trash inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0253_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0233_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0204_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0192_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their daily business inside Kibera Slum , Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0180_1_1.jpg
  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0091_1_1.jpg
  • A woman walks past a soldier on duty inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
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  • Two squatters, a man and his son, photographed at a half demolished building that serves as their home near Huzhou, China on 20 August 2009.
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  • A young boy walks across the rail tracks covered by rotting rubish / trash inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0245_1_1.jpg
  • Woman with her child inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
    20130821_kenya_kibera_0101_1_1.jpg
  • Two women pass by Barclays cash points, both boarded up and vandalised by graffiti, as a leading think tank predicts that surging rates of inflation and weak economic growth in the country could contribute towards a recession, with many households slipping into poverty on 10th May, 2022 in Leeds, United Kingdom. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research Niesr has said that a combination of shocks could leave the incomes of some permanently lower.
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  • A lone member of the public wearing a hooded black coat and holding an umbrella walks past a telecomms box vandalised by graffiti that reads Survive The Cost Of Living Crisis, Support Your Local Shoplifters, as the countrys ongoing cost of living crisis threatens many households with poverty and a decline in living standards not seen since the 1950s, on 3rd April, 2022 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
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  • Two activists from Insulate Britain have glued themselves to the top of a lorry at the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
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  • Police start to arrest and detain activists from Insulate Britain who have blockaded the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
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  • Police start to arrest and detain activists from Insulate Britain who have blockaded the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
    UK-Protest-Insulate-Britain-6829.jpg
  • Police start to arrest and detain activists from Insulate Britain who have blockaded the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
    UK-Protest-Insulate-Britain-6806.jpg
  • Police start to remove activists from Insulate Britain who have blockaded the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
    UK-Protest-Insulate-Britain-6630.jpg
  • Police start to remove activists from Insulate Britain who have blockaded the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
    UK-Protest-Insulate-Britain-6622.jpg
  • Activists from Insulate Britain blockade the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
    UK-Protest-Insulate-Britain-6589.jpg
  • Activists from Insulate Britain blockade the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
    UK-Protest-Insulate-Britain-6533.jpg
  • Activists from Insulate Britain blockade the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
    UK-Protest-Insulate-Britain-5130.jpg
  • Activists from Insulate Britain blockade the entrance to the port of Dover on the 24th of September 2021 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 40 activists from Insulate Britain blocked the road with some gluing themselves to the carriageway of the A20 at the Eastern docks roundabout. There are blocking the roads to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.
    UK-Protest-Insulate-Britain-5365.jpg
  • Homeless persons personal effects and bedding in a disused doorway of a building and next to a large scale poster of a restaurant dining room and beneath new flats in an apartment building in the city centre on 30th March 2021 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The image of both affluence and wealth contrasts greatly with the subject of homelessness and poverty.
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  • Vishal Bhatt breathes fire above Shadipur. The Bhatts, a huge extended family of puppeteers, singers and dancers are all from Rajasthan. When the traditional nomadic lifestyles of courtly entertainers declined, the families moved to the cities to find work.<br />
Shadipur Depot, an industrial area in West Delhi is home to a remarkable collection of performers, artists and circus acts, many of whom perform internationally. The area is a large slum (also known as a jhuggi cluster) with open sewers, few amenities and great poverty.
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  • A middle-aged woman walks along a gloomy street in Toxteth, Liverpool, England. Passing a boarded-up greengrocer that probably once served the local community, the lady strides past its sealed window and the name of its past owner, obviously proud of her business' quality in an otherwise run-down area. Toxteth saw serious rioting in 1981 and the legacy of social-deprivation ever since meant a breakdown of law and order.  Used as the epitome of poor inner-city Britain, it is located to the south of the city and is synonymous with social issues, degradation and poverty with some of the most underprivileged families in the UK. Recently many streets in the worst areas have been demolished including a threat to Beatle Ringo Starr's childhood home.
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  • Family eating in restaurant and and sleeping homeless man in central London doorway. With a theme of stripes that appear on the window and the walls of the doorway, we see the wealth of a modern society where a father can feed his family at the table - versus the poverty of the unfortunate, a man so desperate he has to sleep in the open air on a hot Spring day, his hand outstretched asking for passers-by to offer loose change in a crushed pot. The latest annual figures show that 6,437 people were seen rough sleeping in London in 2012-13, compared with 5,768 the previous year, a 13% rise year on year and an increase of 62% since 2010-11.
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  • Homeless men sleep beneath the statue of US President George Washington in London's Trafalgar Square. The sleeping males are seen stretched across the lawn outside the National Gallery as America's first president looks important and statesmanlike, a symbol of pioneering freedom and success whereas the men are symptomatic of poverty and failure. The George Washington is a replica of a work by Jean-Antoine Houdon.
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  • Accompanied by a pianist, south Londoners sit outside their rail station on whose wall is a screening of the silent film Easy Street starring a former local boy, Charlie Chaplin, kicking off a series of the Free Film Festival in Herne Hill in the London borough of Lambeth. There is no official record of his birth although Chaplin believed he was born at East Street in nearby Walworth. Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, making his eventual trajectory ‘the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told’. Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy. In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and so it is Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, who steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace.
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  • Manager owner Shareef Mohamed. <br />
The wedding business is very big and Afghans can pay huge sums $20 000 for a middle class wedding  is normal. Bear in mind that a Moderate guest lists can top 600 people; the biggest exceeds 2,000. Included in the prices is the dowry or ‘bride price’. Even a poor laborers on 350 a year could be expected to pay $2000 and grooms are left with crushing debt. Tradition and societal pressure leave them with no alternative but to have expensive weddings in spite of their poverty. Marriage is arguably the most important rite of passage for a young Afghan man, and the luxuriousness of the ceremony reaffirms his family's status.  Since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, the Afghan wedding industry has rebounded and is now bigger than ever. The growth is reflected in the proliferation of wedding halls, The number in Kabul alone has risen to more than 80 today from 4 in 2001.
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  • Shop selling alcohol by the rail tracks on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. Selma is the main town of Dallas County which has one of the highest rates of poverty in Alabama and one of the most economically depressed towns in America. It was known as the Queen of the Black Belt for its rich soil that proved ideal for highly profitable cotton growing and extended the years of slave labour after the slave trade had been outlawed. Now it struggles with joblessness, drugs and disenfranchisement.
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  • Nepalese female children stand around their care home staff, who they call ‘Aunty’ in K House, Kathmandu, Nepal.  The care home is run by Friends of Needy Children organization.  It rescues children and provides a loving home for boys and girls who are orphaned or abandoned.  Abject poverty, domestic violence and armed conflict have caused many Nepalese children orphaned and homeless.
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  • Students at the Wema centre in Mombassa, Kenya, play football. Wema provide a rehabilitation program for street children; poor, disadvantaged youth; and, orphaned and vulnerable children affected by poverty. Emotional support and education enables the children reintegration back into society.
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  • Children from the Wema centre in Mombassa, Kenya enjoy porridge after visiting the Wema Farm. Wema provide a rehabilitation program for street children; poor, disadvantaged youth; and, orphaned and vulnerable children affected by poverty. Emotional support and education enables the children reintegration back into society.
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  • A child from K3 works out a math question on the blackboard. Children attend the kindergarten school to learn a variety of subjects during lessons at the Wema Centre, Mombassa, Kenya. Wema is a NGO organisation in Kenya that provides rehabilitation programs for street children; poor, disadvantaged youth; and, orphaned and vulnerable children affected by poverty. Emotional support and education enables the children reintegration back into society.
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