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  • Mother and son climbing the cliff with burdens on their heads in the Bandiagara Escarpment. The Dogon Country is the most visited part of Mali with tourists visiting its tipical  villages that can be located on the cliff, on the sandy plain or in the rocky plateau
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  • Mother and son in a waterfall in the south part of Sao Tome island. Minutes before she was washing clothes in the lagoon formed by the river.
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  • A mother uses a respirator to give medicine to her daughter who suffers from asthma at the hospital in Guaimaca, Honduras.  The baptist hospital is pretty much empty because no one of the villagers can afford to get services from the hospital and opt instead to attend the health care center.  Eventhough its called a hospital the facility is devoid of even the most basic instumentation like oxygen. Hounduras 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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  • September 2015. Thessaloniki. Corn Seller mother  with her son on the seafront of Thessaloniki.
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  • A mother and her three children wait for her husband to arrive from a morning fishing trip.  The small fishing village of Machimaar Nagar struggles to hold on as the explosive growth of Mumbai begins to encroach on its space.
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  • A mother with her son in one of the inner streets at Istanbul's Grand Bazaar.
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  • A women pray the holy mother that reach the church. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • My mother is watching me on our home corridor.
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  • A mother taking care of her baby. <br />
In MAC, in Lisbon, Portugal, every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams. <br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • A young mother makes the graves ,next to your house, her living room.  With her daughter on the lap she tries to cool from the unbearable heat of her small home.
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  • Religion; procession; catholic; extremist; cork; needle; blood; tradition; vatican; church; beliver; devote; holy; mother. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • One of the old women that announcing the name of the holy mother gives the cadence of the beating to the Battenti. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • The Holy mother is brought by the people of Guardia Sanframondi untill the entrance of the church. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • The cork disk and an image of the holy mother are sold for 2€ to the "battenti". Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • A mother holding her tiny newborn.<br />
Newborns are even smaller, undefended. Parents are unquiet and machines sound their beeps. The most remembered feeling, for who was there on their first or last child, is impotence. Life is an incredible fight in tiny hands.<br />
In MAC, in Lisbon, Portugal, every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams.<br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • A mother breastfeeds her newborn son in preterm unit of the Maternity Alfredo da Costa, Lisbon.<br />
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In MAC, every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams. Since 2007 this unit is part of UNICEF’s “Baby-friendly hospitals”, an initiative where promoting breast-feeding is a golden rule.<br />
Meanwhile the maternity-hospital services were suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • Tchikuteny visits the newborn grandson mother?s family in order to welcome them to the great extended family. In Angola?s Namibe desert, at Giraul, in the Namibe province, Tchikuteny, from the Mucubal tribe, is the leader of a big family, maybe the biggest family in the world.<br />
He is the chief leader, the manager and responsible for the entire village. <br />
In his village, Tchikuteny lives nowadays with most of his big family, his 33 wives, that were once 43, but 10 left the village, and most of their descendants.<br />
Tchikuteny maintains the registry of all the new-borns, totalizing 154 sons, and his grandsons, that are around 60. Nowadays, 4 new babies are on the way, and 3 great grand children were born recently.<br />
Huge harmony, love and respect transpire in the village atmosphere. The sense of a community is the pillar of their sustainability and sustenance and their autonomy depends prominently on cattle and agriculture that is made by the villagers. Nevertheless, Tchikuteny village is in close connection with their surrounding communities. Children attend Giraul School and there is proximity and relations with the extended family that lives in the surroundings.<br />
Being the spiritual leader of the community, Tchikuteny is also responsible for the weekly religious works that happens in the village church. <br />
This big family opened his doors to share with us their daily lives.
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  • The battenti hold in their hand a cross with the image of the holy mother for all the time of the procession. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Tchikuteny?s wives in the village In Angola?s Namibe desert, at Giraul, in the Namibe province, Tchikuteny, from the Mucubal tribe, is the leader of a big family, maybe the biggest family in the world.<br />
He is the chief leader, the manager and responsible for the entire village. <br />
In his village, Tchikuteny lives nowadays with most of his big family, his 33 wives, that were once 43, but 10 left the village, and most of their descendants.<br />
Tchikuteny maintains the registry of all the new-borns, totalizing 154 sons, and his grandsons, that are around 60. Nowadays, 4 new babies are on the way, and 3 great grand children were born recently.<br />
Huge harmony, love and respect transpire in the village atmosphere. The sense of a community is the pillar of their sustainability and sustenance and their autonomy depends prominently on cattle and agriculture that is made by the villagers. Nevertheless, Tchikuteny village is in close connection with their surrounding communities. Children attend Giraul School and there is proximity and relations with the extended family that lives in the surroundings.<br />
Being the spiritual leader of the community, Tchikuteny is also responsible for the weekly religious works that happens in the village church. <br />
This big family opened his doors to share with us their daily lives.
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  • Tchikuteny?s wife and baby at the village. In Angola?s Namibe desert, at Giraul, in the Namibe province, Tchikuteny, from the Mucubal tribe, is the leader of a big family, maybe the biggest family in the world.<br />
He is the chief leader, the manager and responsible for the entire village. <br />
In his village, Tchikuteny lives nowadays with most of his big family, his 33 wives, that were once 43, but 10 left the village, and most of their descendants.<br />
Tchikuteny maintains the registry of all the new-borns, totalizing 154 sons, and his grandsons, that are around 60. Nowadays, 4 new babies are on the way, and 3 great grand children were born recently.<br />
Huge harmony, love and respect transpire in the village atmosphere. The sense of a community is the pillar of their sustainability and sustenance and their autonomy depends prominently on cattle and agriculture that is made by the villagers. Nevertheless, Tchikuteny village is in close connection with their surrounding communities. Children attend Giraul School and there is proximity and relations with the extended family that lives in the surroundings.<br />
Being the spiritual leader of the community, Tchikuteny is also responsible for the weekly religious works that happens in the village church. <br />
This big family opened his doors to share with us their daily lives.
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  • A woman poses with her child near Galata bridge in Istanbul.
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  • Woman carrying a child on her back near Bab Sagma (Sagma Gate).
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  • A woman carrying her child near the riverside. At the confluence of the Niger and the Bani rivers, between Timbuktu and Ségou, Mopti is the second largest city in Mali, and the hub for commerce and tourism in this west-african landlocked country.
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  • The cork disk are disinfected with cheap white wine. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • A flagellant watch the street waiting for the beginning of the procession. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Amoment of the procession. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Some flagellant wait the beginning of the procession. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Flagellant during the procession. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • The flagellant enter inside the church at the end of the religious procession. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
    h_00012047.jpg
  • Newborns are even smaller, undefended. Parents are unquiet and machines sound their beeps. <br />
Everything happens in the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (MAC). In Mac, every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams. <br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • Newborns resting in the babycots.<br />
The Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (MAC). It is the first home where some babies spend their first three months, before they go to their real homes.<br />
In MAC, in Lisbon, Portugal, every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams.<br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • Parents with their babies. After fed newborns sleep in their cribs.<br />
In MAC, in Lisbon, Portugal, every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams. <br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • A monitor observes one of the premature babies born in Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital's Intensive Care Unit. This is the first house where some babies get to spend three months before they can leave. In MAC, Lisbon, born every year 6000 children, about 6% of total births in the country.<br />
Newborns less than 1500 grams are 150 per year, according to neonatologist Israel Macedo. Despite all of this, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended; the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • Newborns are helpless, parents are restless and the machines beep.<br />
There are tubes, ventilators, blue lights to cure jaundice. The most remembered feeling, for who was there on their first or last child, is impotence. Life is an incredible fight in tiny hands.<br />
Everything happens in the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (MAC). <br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • Newborns are helpless, parents are restless and the machines beep.<br />
There are tubes, ventilators, blue lights to cure jaundice.The most remembered feeling, for who was there on their first or last child, is impotence. Life is an incredible fight in tiny hands.<br />
Everything happens in the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (MAC). <br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
    prematuros_12.JPG
  • Newborns are helpless, parents are restless and the machines beep.<br />
There are tubes, ventilators, blue lights to cure jaundice.The most remembered feeling, for who was there on their first or last child, is impotence. Life is an incredible fight in tiny hands.<br />
Everything happens in the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (MAC). <br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • Juana Ruiz Garcia and her two daughter twins, Brenda Marivel Garcia and Lidia Yanette Garcia, 8.  Mrs. Garcia's husband Victor Garcia was one of the illegal immigrants detained in the Bianco raid and has since been deported to his hometown of Xicalcal, Guatemala.
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  • April 2015. Paris. An asian girl is watching to her child in the subway station.
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  • Woman pushing a baby's car near a Moroccan national flag inside Fez Medina.
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  • The narrow Fez medina streets and its souks are bustled with vendors, shops, people carrying goods and the daily life is overwhelmingly fast.
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  • Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Some flagellant wait the beginning of the procession. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • The cork disk are disinfected with cheap white wine. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Preparation of the "sponge", a disk of cork with 20/40 needle that will be used during the religious procession by the "Battenti". Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • A women that will participate to the procession as battente is holdin in her hand her cork disk. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Flagellant participating at the religious procession. Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • Every seven years in August  in a small village named Guardia Sanframondi , a one-week long catholic procession, the “Riti Settennali” takes place. <br />
From Monday to Friday the flagellant walk in the street of the medieval village striking their back with small strips of metal to honour the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The last day, Sunday, the Virgin Mary from the main church is carried around the village and venerated by the “Battenti”. The “Battenti” are men that decide to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary beating their own chest with a cylindrical peace of cork pierced with needles (between 25 and 45).
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  • A preterm baby during a bath session.<br />
Everything happens in the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (MAC). In MAC, in every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams. <br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • Parents feeding their babies.<br />
In MAC, in Lisbon, Portugal, every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams. Since 2007 this unit is part of UNICEF’s “Baby-friendly hospitals”, an initiative where promoting breast-feeding is a golden rule.<br />
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Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • Newborns are helpless, parents are restless and the machines beep.<br />
There are tubes, ventilators, blue lights to cure jaundice.The most remembered feeling, for who was there on their first or last child, is impotence. Life is an incredible fight in tiny hands.<br />
Everything happens in the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (MAC). <br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
    prematuros_13.JPG
  • Newborns are helpless, parents are restless and the machines beep.<br />
There are tubes, ventilators, blue lights to cure jaundice.<br />
Everything happens in the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (MAC). <br />
In MAC, every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams. Since 2007 this unit is part of UNICEF’s “Baby-friendly hospitals”, an initiative where promoting breast-feeding is a golden rule.<br />
Meanwhile the maternity-hospital services were suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
    prematuros_14.JPG
  • Newborns are even smaller, undefended. Parents are unquiet and machines sound their beeps. The most remembered feeling, for who was there on their first or last child, is impotence. Life is an incredible fight in tiny hands.<br />
In MAC, in Lisbon, Portugal, every year 6000 babies are born, about 6% of all country’s births. About 150 of newborns in MAC weight less than 1500 grams.<br />
Meanwhile, the fate of the maternity-hospital is suspended as the portuguese economic crisis is pushing the Government to close the oldest working unit in Portugal.
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  • Newborn Erik Orlando Hernandez Ruiz, 2 months, hangs from the rafters in a crib made from wire and a bag of corn, his father, Adam Hernandez Ruiz, stands at the door. Xicalcal, Guatemala.
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  • A woman retrieves her daughter from the center of the street as she and her siblings sit on the dirt road that runs through their village.  Hounduras 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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  • Carlos tests his blood sugar before eating a warm lunch his mother prepared for him.  Carlos Raposa, 47, has lived with diabetes since he was 21.  Mr. Raposa had both legs amputated from the knees down due to complications from the disease.  Mr Raposa lives in Fall River and visits his mother regularly who lives close by.  She cooks for him and helps him deal with the cripling condition he has been dealing with.  As his condition has worstened over the years Carlos has had greater difficulty dealing with his condition.  Increasingly, Carlos has fallen greater into depression and has turned to smoking and drinking to deal with it.  What used to be monthly visits to the hospital has turned into weekly excursions with ever longer stays in hospital.  Family members have become ever more worried about Carlos' drop in weight and his inability to move on his own any longer.  For someone who was an athletic figure, Carlos has become a shadow of his former self.
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  • Lucas, two years old, lives with his mother and siblings in a makeshift low quality plywood shack in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area. Lucas and his two siblings suffer from bronchitis. According to his mother, Mrs. Maria Amélia, the employees of the Public Health Center that attends the Isidoro region argue that they aren't allowed from authorities to register and treat people from irregular occupancies, restricting to care just to emergency cases.
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  • One week earlier at this house a fire erupted during the night. The mother rescued the children and went back home to help her husband and mother but the ceiling went down and killed the three.
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  • Liebiediev Sergii 24,  Daryna 7, Denys 9, Karyna 12, Viktor 23 pose for a family photo with their grandmother Zinaiida at her house. One week earlier at their house a fire erupted during the night. Their mother rescued the children and went back home to help her husband and mother but the ceiling went down and killed the three.<br />
Last Summer Daryna went to Spain and next vacations Karyna and Denys will go to Spain or to Portugal for the first time.
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  • Claudineia Silva, 33,  used to live with her mother but after the prices skyrocked because of the World Cup she was forced to move to the Copa do Povo (People's Cup) Camp in Itaquera, São Paulo. Her mother lives now with the brothers that she doesn't get along. The Copa do Povo Camp is just a few miles from the Arena Corinthians and has 5,000 homeless workers and their families occupied area of ​​fifteen acres. They are homeless after rents skyrocketed because of the World Cup. (Eduardo Leal).
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  • As Carlos' mother serves him lunch, Carlos reacts after finding out his blood sugar was too high (510). Time for an insulin shot. Carlos Raposa, 49, has lived with diabetes since he was 21. Mr. Raposa had both legs amputated from the knees down due to complications from the disease. Mr Raposa lives in Fall River and visits his mother regularly who lives close by. She cooks for him and helps him deal with the crippling condition he has been dealing with.  As his condition has worstened over the years Carlos has had greater difficulty dealing with his condition.  Increasingly, Carlos has fallen greater into depression and has turned to smoking and drinking to deal with it.  What used to be monthly visits to the hospital has turned into weekly excursions with ever longer stays in hospital.  Family members have become ever more worried about Carlos' drop in weight and his inability to move on his own any longer.  For someone who was an athletic figure, Carlos has become a shadow of his former self.
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  • On the left: Zoryn, Ukraine. Bogdan Nesterenko 13, a family friend, Mark Kosenchuk 9, Sofia Kosenchuk 7 and Olena.<br />
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On the right: Peniche, Portugal. Joana Vitorino, Mark Kosenchuk, Paulo Vitorino, Susana Roquete and Alfredo Vitorino<br />
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Mark lives with his brothers and mother. This year he went to Portugal for the 2nd time and he stayed at Peniche, a Portuguese costal city Vitorino's family. Bogdan, his older brother went for the first time to Portugal despite being older. Since he has a slight difference in the size of his two legs his mother never suggested his name to the Blue Summer program.
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  • Carlos makes his way gingerly up the front steps at his mothers house. Carlos Raposa, 49, has lived with diabetes since he was 21. Mr. Raposa had both legs amputated from the knees down due to complications from the disease. Mr Raposa lives in Fall River and visits his mother regularly who lives close by. She cooks for him and helps him deal with the crippling condition he has been dealing with.  As his condition has worstened over the years Carlos has had greater difficulty dealing with his condition.  Increasingly, Carlos has fallen greater into depression and has turned to smoking and drinking to deal with it.  What used to be monthly visits to the hospital has turned into weekly excursions with ever longer stays in hospital.  Family members have become ever more worried about Carlos' drop in weight and his inability to move on his own any longer.  For someone who was an athletic figure, Carlos has become a shadow of his former self.
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  • Jeffrey Bello, son of Philippine mother and an american father, lives in the cemetery for 16 years. <br />
He lunchs in his kitchen - between the living and the dead. His life is stalled after the death of his mother and abandonment of his father - a former U.S. military.
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  • Jeffrey Bello, son of Philippine mother and an american father, lives in the cemetery for 16 years. <br />
Between the living and the dead, without work and without money, his life is stalled after the death of his mother and abandonment of his father - a former U.S. military. He returns home with a bottle of clean water and cooked food in his hand.
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  • Jeffrey Bello, son of Philippine mother and an american father, lives in the cemetery for 16 years. <br />
Between the living and the dead, without work and without money, his life is stalled after the death of his mother and abandonment of his father - a former U.S. military. This photo reflects his state of mind - trapped in a life he did not choose or want for himself.
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  • Jeffrey Bello, son of Philippine mother and an american father, lives in the cemetery for 16 years. <br />
Between the living and the dead, without work and without money, his life is stalled after the death of his mother and abandonment of his father - a former U.S. military. This photo reflects his state of mind - trapped in a life he did not choose or want for himself.
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  • 2016/10/09 – Jama, Ecuador: Marcos Rosales, 47, takes a break during the works he is doing in his family house, Jama, Ecuador, 9th October 2016. He is trying to save the unaffected part of the house and replace the affected part with newly built area. Marcos lost his mother during the earthquake; she was trapped between collapsed walls of the house. He doesn’t believe he will get any Government help, so he started the rebuild of the former house by himself.  (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2016/05/29 - Barcelona, Venezuela: Patricia Valle with her mother, Noella Valle, waits for an examination in El Troncal ambulatory, Barcelona.  (Eduardo Leal)
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  • A young mother with her baby, in Inle Lake, Myanmar.<br />
Note: These images are not distributed or sold in Portugal
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  • My sister is looking at me while my mother is talking by phone in home.
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  • Davi, three years old lives with his mother, Mrs. Aline in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area.
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  • Paulo Pires, the Liberty Seguros representative takes a picture to Nikita Bezpalyy, 8 so that the future host family in Portugal can have an idea of him. His father has just arrived from the war and he is working at Chernobyl as a firefighter. His mother is unemployed.
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  • Arkadiy Yatsenko, 8 does his homework after school. He lives with his sister, his uncle and mother who is unemployed, surviving just from what the land offers them and from state fares. The children have to walk several kilometers to get to school every day.
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  • Arkadiy and Angelina Yatsenko, 8 and 11 ride a bicycle at a road next to their house. They live with their uncle and mother who is unemployed, surviving just from what the land offers them and from state fares. The children have to walk several kilometers to get to school every day.
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  • A local NGO buids a new house for the Costa Family. composed by Joaquin and Clara (grandparents), Maria (mother) and her 4 sons (Ricardo, Hugo, Victor and Manuel) and 1 daughter (Isabel). They all live in the grandparent’s house that is a 2 rooms house.  The only one that is working is Hugo that is employed in a textile factory and gain the minimum salary, 400€, the only income for the whole family.
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  • A local NGO buids a new house for the Costa Family. composed by Joaquin and Clara (grandparents), Maria (mother) and her 4 sons (Ricardo, Hugo, Victor and Manuel) and 1 daughter (Isabel). They all live in the grandparent’s house that is a 2 rooms house.  The only one that is working is Hugo that is employed in a textile factory and gain the minimum salary, 400€, the only income for the whole family.
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  • Isabel, Maria’s daughter, sleeps sick in her mother bed.
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  • One of the sons of Manuela working on his computer. Manuela is a single mother and it is more than 10 years that she lives with her three sons in a garage.
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  • Mother and daughter sell, in their home's salon, grain, potatoes, onions and other goods grown in their vegetable garden. Pensioners have seen their pensions progressively cut and their expenses increased with rising taxation over food and electricity, forcing them to find during their "golden years" new ways to complement already meager pensions after a lifetime of work, saving and contributing to retirement funds.
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  • Barnard and his mother stand outside the tent. After loosing their job and their house the family composed of 2 parents (Ronel and Sydney), their kids (Nadine, Reinard, Tian and Macyla) and the respective grandparents, move to Krugerdorp camp in 2008. From then they are living in a caravan and a tent.
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  • Anne (Ronel’s mother) is looking at their present accommodation. She was used to live in one of the best part of Johannesburg, Melville. Very often she look at their caravan remembering her independent house.
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  • Kathleen Harrington (mother) and Faith Harrington (wife) seek comfort in each other as the plane with the body of Sgt. Kyle J. Harrington arrives at TFG.  Family members of Sgt. Kyle J. Harrington, 24, who was killed in an accident in Iraq wait for his body to arrive at TFG airport in Providence.  It was then brought to Birchcrest Home of Waring-Sullivan in Swansea where family members had a few minutes with the casket.  Army Sgt. Kyle J. Harrington 24, of Swansea, Mass.; was assigned to the 542nd Maintenance Company, 80th Ordnance Battalion, 593rd Sustainment Brigade, Fort Lewis, Wash.; died Jan. 24 in Basra, Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-hostile accident in his unit motor pool.
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  • A mother and her two children beg to train passengers at the train station in Jaipur.  Children, some who have run away from their families, find themselves living homeless on the train tracks waititng for the next train to arrive at the train station in Jaipur, India.  Once the train arrives they raid the train looking for plastic bottles that they can then sell.  Most will make about $1.50/day but spend most of it on glue which they are most addicted to.
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  • A family lives homeless at the train station in Jaipur, the father sleeps on the ground as the mother tends to one of her children.  Children, some who have run away from their families, find themselves living homeless on the train tracks waititng for the next train to arrive at the train station in Jaipur, India.  Once the train arrives they raid the train looking for plastic bottles that they can then sell.  Most will make about $1.50/day but spend most of it on glue which they are most addicted to.
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  • Mother tries to comfort one of her girls after she starts crying in the bedroom.  A family of two parents 12 children and 2 grandchildren struggle to survive in the forest area where living is simply existing.  The women of the family weave hats to sell at the market.  The children play with their puppies and with sticks.  They climb trees and chase the dogs.  The smile and laugh, but their existence is on the fringe.
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  • Carlos talks to his mother and younger brother about the pain that the perpetual open wound is causing him. Carlos Raposa, 49, deals with deabetes.  As his condition has worstened over the years Carlos has had greater difficulty dealing with his condition.  Increasingly, Carlos has fallen greater into depression and has turned to smoking and drinking to deal with it.  What used to be monthly visits to the hospital has turned into weekly excursions with ever longer stays in hospital.  Family members have become ever more worried about Carlos' drop in weight and his inability to move on his own any longer.  For someone who was an athletic figure, Carlos has become a shadow of his former self.
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  • Carlos gives himself an insulin shot.  Carlos Raposa, 47, has lived with diabetes since he was 21.  Mr. Raposa had both legs amputated from the knees down due to complications from the disease.  Mr Raposa lives in Fall River and visits his mother regularly who lives close by.  She cooks for him and helps him deal with the cripling condition he has been dealing with.  As his condition has worstened over the years Carlos has had greater difficulty dealing with his condition.  Increasingly, Carlos has fallen greater into depression and has turned to smoking and drinking to deal with it.  What used to be monthly visits to the hospital has turned into weekly excursions with ever longer stays in hospital.  Family members have become ever more worried about Carlos' drop in weight and his inability to move on his own any longer.  For someone who was an athletic figure, Carlos has become a shadow of his former self.
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  • A mother carries her sick son by the pharmacy at the hospital in Guaimaca, Honduras.  The baptist hospital is pretty much empty because no one of the villagers can afford to get services from the hospital and opt instead to attend the health care center.  Eventhough its called a hospital the facility is devoid of even the most basic instumentation like oxygen.  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 mother offers one of her children a drink of water from the only source of water in the town.  This well with a pump is where residents of Majastre, Honduras collect water and wash their clothes daily. 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 mother cries as she sees her son for the first time in twelve weeks the day before he graduates.  Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island in South Carolina is where all male recruits living east of the Mississippi River and all female recruits from all over the US receive their arduous twelve week training in their quest to become marines. Even though there are two current active wars and a weak economy, recruitment has not been effected.  Actually, recruiting numbers have increased, with more young men and women looking toward the military for answers.
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  • Odilia Hernandez sees her son Anthony Hernandez for the first time in 12 weeks as he is released to his family at the end of Liberty Ceremony.  The following day he will return home with his mother after graduation.  Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island in South Carolina is where all male recruits living east of the Mississippi River and all female recruits from all over the US receive their arduous twelve week training in their quest to become marines. Even though there are two current active wars and a weak economy, recruitment has not been effected.  Actually, recruiting numbers have increased, with more young men and women looking toward the military for answers.
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  • This one year baby girl is assisting to the fair for the first time. Her mother was married at 14th. Each spring in Mogila, Bulgaria, is celebrated the Gypsy Bride Market. In this festival the virginity is for sale. The honor can be bought. Every girl has a price to be agreed between the parents of the girl and the candidate. The price can range between 1.500 and 10.000€, in a country where the minimum salary is just over 100€. The market joins the Kalajdzii families, known as the thracians tinkerers, whose tradition is still alive. Many girls dress as real princesses, others prefer to dress in a modern way. They dance during hours the ring dance while grandparents and parents watch the way the young interrelate. Many girls dream to be married by the rite imposed by the tradition. Nowadays there are some girls that don’t agree with the tradition and would prefer not to marry, although they assist to these market all the times. Divorces and elopements, so far taboo, are becoming everytime more frequent. Beyond the topic, ethnologists, define it as the Kalajdzii’s disco, where the family honor is involved in a commercial transaction. This ritual has being celebrated for years, so anthropologists think is not going to change too much in future.
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  • Athens, greece - Spaneli, 31 years old prostitute. Mother of a two years old, Spaneli said that prostitution was the only way she could find to feed her daughter after losing her job and all the help from the state.Recently, dozens of prostitutes were arrested and forced to take HIV tests. Police released photographs of women who had tested positive. Greek economical crisis started in 2008. The so-called Austerity measures imposed to the country by the “Troika” (European Union, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund) to reduce its debt, were followed by a deep recession and the worsening of life conditions for millions of people. Unemployment rate grew from 8.5% in 2008 to 25% in 2012 (source: Hellenic Statistical Authority).Bruno Simões Castanheira
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  • The oldest lady of the house takes care of the youngest child. She usually does this all day, while the people of that house are at work. Cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the youngest children is a normal and typical day's work for her. They call her Maa, which means "mother" in Thai.

On the banks of a polluted river, in poorly-built houses, live more than a hundred people from the Lahu tribe. They live in a slum in Chiang Mai, Thailand, away from the Lahu people’s original way of life. Usually, the Lahu people get their resources from the forest. The slum has been there for decades.
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  • Mother and daughter from the chinese community living in Lisbon celebrating with a portuguese flag the winning of the country's first football Euro Cup. Portugal's national squad won the Euro Cup the day before, beating in the final France, the organizing country of the European Football Championship, in a match that ended 1-0 after extra-time.
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