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  • An old lady is helped to descend from the ferry boat. Sometimes Brava island gets isolated for several days when sea conditions doesn't allow ships to approach Furna's harbour, the only one in the island.
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  • Passengers load their luggage in the feery boat. Sometimes Brava island gets isolated for several days when sea conditions doesn't allow ships to approach Furna's harbour, the only one in the island.
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  • A child sleeps held by his father while waiting for the ferry from Brava to Fogo island. Sometimes Brava island gets isolated for several days when sea conditions doesn't allow ships to approach Furna's harbour, the only one in the island.
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  • A coastal guard checks papers while the ferry is unloaded. Sometimes Brava island gets isolated for several days when sea conditions doesn't allow ships to approach Furna's harbour, the only one in the island.
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  • Children play in Furna where is located the only harbour that serves the island when sea conditions allows ships to navigate.
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  • In Furna people gather on the top of a rock fishing. Furna is the village where is located the only harbour that serves the island when sea conditions allows ships to navigate.
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  • Girls chat on the way to a water spring on Brava's east coast. Nearby, Furna is the place where is located the only harbour that serves the island when sea conditions allows ships to navigate.
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  • One hiker waives in the top of a hill on Brava's east coast. On the background massive Fogo island is omnipresent with its 2829 metres vulcano.
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  • Brava's coast is very scenic featuring many bays and cliffs.
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  • The portrait of a young shepperd  in the abandoned village of Vinagre in Brava's east coast. Vinagre is so called because of the acid fountain water that reminds vinegar. The young man is wearing a political t-shirt from one of the candidates for President.
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  • A shepperd waits for the cattle to refresh in the abandoned village of Vinagre in Brava's east coast. Vinagre is so called because of the acid fountain water that reminds vinegar.
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  • One of the many stone ways that lead to abandoned villages in the east coast of Brava island.
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  • A dog sitting on a wall and boys walking in a cobblestone road are a common sight in Brava island, a place where the pace of time has always been slow.
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  • Faja da Agua is a village with a magnificent setting on a bay. Nearby the inoperative airport remembers te remoteness of Brava island.
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  • The steep ancient path that sheperds used from Nova Sintra to Faja da Agua zigzags through a deep valley.
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  • A young girl holds a baby in a bar in Faja da Agua village. The average age of Cape Verde population is 23 years old
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  • In the steep ancient path that sheperds used from Nova Sintra to Faja da Agua, the way passes in Lavadura village that reminds Machu Picchu for its setting among mountain peaks and for the number of stone walls.
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  • In the steep ancient path that sheperds used from Nova Sintra to Faja da Agua, the way passes in Lavadura village that reminds Machu Picchu for its setting among mountain peaks and for the number of stone walls.
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  • Boys taking care of a bougainvillaea tree. With a mild climate, the smaller of Cape Verde islands has the nickname of "flower island".
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  • One hiker walks in the ancient path used by sheperds in the direction of Faja da Agua village. On the background massive Fogo island is omnipresent with its 2829 metres vulcano.
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  • A small village hanging on the top of a cliff. Brava island is very hilly featuring high cliffs and deep valleys. On the distance the Secos islets can be seen.
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  • A bougainvillaea tree marks the fence of a little farm in Brava island. With a mild climate, the smaller of Cape Verde islands has the nickname of "flower island".
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  • A view of Nova Sintra, the capital village of Brava island situated on a cooler plateau about 600 metres from sea level. On the background massive Fogo island is omnipresent with its 2829 metres vulcano.
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  • A girl walks on a street in Nova Sintra, Brava island capital village. This village is a gem of simple colonial architecture featuring humble houses in a plateau about 600 metres from sea level.
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  • A window in a colonial building in Brava's capital village Nova Sintra. This village is a gem of simple colonial architecture featuring humble houses in a plateau about 600 metres from sea level.
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  • As in neighbour Fogo island, in Brava one can find many people with light skin and eyes. Brava and Fogo inhabitants are targeted by other islands population that joke saying "they think they are white people"
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  • Old men spend the day playing cards  or going to the few bars open in Nova Sintra.
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  • School boys coming from school in Nova Sintra. Capeverdian students wear uniform so that the rich and the poor look the same.
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  • A couple kiss in Eugenio Tavares square which is the center of  Nova Sintra and it's where its population converge. Know as "the flower island" Brava  has in its capital village Nova Sintra a gem of simple colonial architecture ..
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  • Sorriso (Smile) is the nickname of one of the characters better known by Bravas people. This adolescent is known to be a thieve and the population will always advise the tourist to be carefull.
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  • Eugenio Tavares square is the center of  Nova Sintra and it's where its population converge. Know as "the flower island" Brava  has in its capital village Nova Sintra a gem of simple colonial architecture .
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  • A franciscan monk passes in a street in Nova Sintra, the capital village of Brava island.
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  • A child plays in Nova Sintra, the capital village of Brava island the most inacessible of the nine inhabited islands of Cape Verde archipelago.
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  • A liberian football player portrayed in the ferry from Brava to Fogo island. After fled his homeland Liberia due to civil war more than 15 years ago this refugee lived in Gambia and Guinea Conakri before going to Cape Verde to play football as a way of earning his life.
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  • On the way out from Nova Sintra a lookout with a cross marks the end of the town center on the road the continues to Furna, the place where is located the only harbour that serves the island when sea conditions allows ships to navigate.
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  • Know as "the flower island" Brava  has in its capital village Nova Sintra a gem of simple colonial architecture and its streets are arborized with many kinds of trees like these fig trees.
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  • Dawn fog near Carnavon.
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  • A roadtrain truck. Tourists driving in australian roads should drive carefully when crossing with these  cargo transport so typical of the country roads.
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Ricardo “Gaucho”, a member of the National Movement of Indigenous Farmers (MOCASE), points to the trees showing that the part facing the cultivation field are dying because of the usage of glyphosate during the production of soy. Many teachers complain that the school sometimes is also pulverized by glyphosate during the soy season putting in risk the children that study in the school. This is not an isolated case, many of the schools in the region are next to plantation fields. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Primary school number 666 in the outskirts Quimili is faced by a soya field. Many teachers complain that the school sometimes is also pulverized by glyphosate during the soya season putting in risk the children that study there. This is not an isolated case, many of the schools in the region are next to plantation fields. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • Town residents gather at the town school building in Majatre, Honduras for the visit of a priest who makes his way up into the mountains to conduct mass once a month.  Many of Honduras small villages lie in remote mountainous areas, isolated from the larger towns with no water or electricity.  Honduras is considered the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere (Haiti, Nicaragua). With over 50% of the population living below the poverty line and 28% unemployed, Hondurans frequently turn to illegal immigration as a solution to their desperate situation. The Department of Homeland Security has noted an 95% increase in illegal immigrants coming from Honduras between 2000 and 2009, the largest increase of any country.
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  • Small towns like Majastre are isolated up in the mountains.  With no running water and no electricity, these towns live in greater poverty.  Honduras is considered the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere (Haiti, Nicaragua). With over 50% of the population living below the poverty line and 28% unemployed, Hondurans frequently turn to illegal immigration as a solution to their desperate situation. The Department of Homeland Security has noted an 95% increase in illegal immigrants coming from Honduras between 2000 and 2009, the largest increase of any country.
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  • A young girl reaches up to be included as towns folk greet each other during mass held in the school building in Majastre, Honduras.  Majastre, like many towns in Honduras, lies isolated in the mountains and mass which is held once a month by Fr. Craig Pregana from Fall River, MA is an event that all towns people attend.   Honduras is considered the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere (Haiti, Nicaragua). With over 50% of the population living below the poverty line and 28% unemployed, Hondurans frequently turn to illegal immigration as a solution to their desperate situation. The Department of Homeland Security has noted an 95% increase in illegal immigrants coming from Honduras between 2000 and 2009, the largest increase of any country.
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  • Mrs Preto in front of her ham production. These isolated community live with their animal product and the vegetable they grow. They barely felt the economic crisis.
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