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With a maturity beyond her years, eight-year-old Khailzabina comforts her baby brother Faisal Khan (18 months) who is suffering from heat stroke in the 50 degree heat. North Western Frontier, Pakistan. Young Afghan girls wait patiently in the mid-day heat to collect their ration of soup, available every other day. The photo shows just a small part of a huge queue in what was Afghanistan's largest refugee camp, holding 250,000 people. The boys queued separately in this devoutly Muslim area. Maslakh, near Herat in Western Afghanistan.
Collecting 14.4 kg of wheat flour, the permitted ration per family each month. Shamshatu refugee camp, North Western Pakistan. Blighted by famine and war, Afghan men with no jobs and no homes wait aimlessly in the dust for anything that might improve their lives and the lives of their families. Jelozai, North Western Frontier, Pakistan.
Drought often affects the land's ability to absorb water when the rains do finally arrive, causing destructive flash floods. British development charity, Tearfund, supplied the money to plant the delightufully named Chikalumpha forest in Fombe, to help with water absorbtion in an area prone to flooding. Malawi, Southern Africa. Habibou Kiendrebeogo walks across her small plot of land carrying water for her onions. She works the land everyday, selling produce at the market to support her five children. Kolguinguéssé village in Southern Burkina Faso.
Orphaned by AIDS, Rachel (second left) was only eight years old when she was forced into the role of 'mother' to take care of her extended family. The children (from left to right) are: Irene, Rachel, Little Eddy, Shakiray, Abbey, Ndagire and Maria. Rural Uganda. Rendille tribeswomen maintain a brisk pace on their 10km dash for water. Amazingly, the return trip was equally as fast despite their heavy loads. Northern Kenya.
Individual farmers load their cotton harvest onto trucks to be sold collectively. Prior to loading, each farmer’s harvest is weighed for a fair share of the profit. Despite the positive cooperation between Burkina Faso’s two million cotton farmers, subsidised production in the west forces their income below a dollar a day. Afghans always study foreigners with an intense curiosity, but behind the piercing stares lies the warmest of welcomes from these incredibly hospitable people. Western desert, near Herat, Afghanistan.

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