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  • Pregnant women, their children and other village women are seen waiting in the Anganwadi centre (Integrated Child Development Services) to meet the rural health worker  of the Fakirana Sisters Society in Loharpatti Village, in Bettiah of East Champaran district in Bihar. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Pregnant women, their children and other village women are seen waiting in the Anganwadi centre (Integrated Child Development Services) to meet the rural health worker  of the Fakirana Sisters Society in Loharpatti Village, in Bettiah of East Champaran district in Bihar. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • A mother reacts and covers her child's face as a nurse injects a BCG into the arm of her infant in immunization ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • A child is seen playing inside the Posco India transit camp in Badagabapur, in Jagatsinghpur, Orissa. Posco Transit Camp is being set up for people who have been driven out of their villages for being pro-Posco, where they live on the side of a highway on $80 a day shared between 195 people.
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  • Mother and child in Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • A child peeps into a room in the shelter. Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • A young man is seen taking photo of his child using his mobile phone on the ghats of the ancient holy city, Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India. Benares has always been a HIndu dominant city and the right wing party, Bhartiya Janta Party has always won with majority votes from this city.
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  • A child looks on while raw coal is burnt to process the coal in Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. One or two houses collapse annually into vast underground caverns left unfilled by abandoned mining operations. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • Local villagers attend a street theatre act organized by Fakirana Sisters Society as part of their programme to educate the rural population on sanitation and health care in Arnahwa Village, in Bettiah of East Champaran district in Bihar. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Local villagers get the infants vaccinated during the routine immunization drive in Loharpatti Village, in Bettiah of East Champaran district in Bihar. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Local villagers wait to get their infants vaccinated during the routine immunization drive in Loharpatti Village, in Bettiah of East Champaran district in Bihar. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • A woman kisses her infant grandson while waiting to get the infants vaccinated during the routine immunization drive in Loharpatti Village, in Bettiah of East Champaran district in Bihar. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Local villagers wait to get the infants vaccinated during the routine immunization drive in Loharpatti Village, in Bettiah of East Champaran district in Bihar. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Local villagers get the infants vaccinated during the routine immunization drive in Loharpatti Village, in Bettiah of East Champaran district in Bihar. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Reeta Devi (right) shares a lighter moment with her 4 year old daughter, Rimjhim in their house while Sunita Devi (left) looks on in Bishambharpur village, in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar, India. Reeta Devi took advantage of the government scheme of institutional delivery and was compensated for the delivery. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • 2 month old Prince Kumar sleeps in the verandah of the house in Bishambharpur village, in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar, India. Reeta Devi took advantage of the government scheme of institutional delivery and was compensated for the delivery. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Reeta Devi feeds her 4 year old daughter, Rimjhim in their house in Bishambharpur village, in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar, India. Reeta Devi took advantage of the government scheme of institutional delivery and was compensated for the delivery. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Local villagers wait to get their infants vaccinated during the routine immunization drive in Loharpatti Village, in Bettiah of East Champaran district in Bihar. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • A woman sits next to her new born grandson in pediatrics ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • A young girl combs her hair in the verandah of her house in village Sanau Sultan in Seohar district in Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Nutritionist, Neetu Kumari (left) takes down the details (of weight and height) of all the children while other villagers look on at the Anganwadi centre in Village Sanau Sultan in Seohar district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Villagers gather at the Anganwadi centre in Village Sanau Sultan in Seohar district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • An old woman walks with a little girl in Village Sirisgura in Bastar district of Chattisgarh, India. The local villagers are protesting against Tata and the local government for forcibly acquiring their village. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for The Times
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  • Migrant labourers are loaded onto the truck after the days' work at the construction site of the Asia's Biggest Dome, the Kashi Ram Smarak built by Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mayawati in Lucknow, India. The dalit chief minister, Mayawati is channeling huge state funds into making statutes of herself with her mentor, Kashi Ram all across Lucknow.
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  • Mathumita reads bed-time stories to her son at her mother's house in Punaineeravi village in Kilinochchi in Northern Sri Lanka. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Mathumita feeds her son after long day of work at her mother's house in Punaineeravi village in Kilinochchi in Northern Sri Lanka. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Malnourished children with their mothers are seen at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Khaknar block of Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for ACF
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  • Malnourished children with their mothers are seen at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Khaknar block of Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for ACF
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  • A little boy tries to pull his mothers' attention for snacks in the lawns of India Gate in New Delhi, India  Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • 28 year old Veena Bhat takes a break from work and plays with her 4 month daughter, Aditi at the creche in Ernst & Young Global Shared Services office in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • Local residents gather raw coal and process it in Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • Local residents gather raw coal and process it in Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. One or two houses collapse annually into vast underground caverns left unfilled by abandoned mining operations. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • Villagers gather outside their huts in village Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. One or two houses collapse annually into vast underground caverns left unfilled by abandoned mining operations. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • A woman is seen helping a sikh boy urinating from a car at a traffic light in New Delhi, India.
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  • A young boy is seen outside his hut in Ijurupa village in Lanjigarh, Orissa, India
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  • Villagers pose for a portrait outside the local temple, that also works as the office of the agitating group, "Posco Pratirdh Sangram Samiti" in   village Dingkhia in Orissa, India.
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  • A train attendant is seen sitting in a train compartment of Indian Railways train.
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  • 12 year old Ihungbe Rinbe is one of the many children who were victims of communal violence. Families from the Mabauram village whose houses were burnt by suspected Dimasa group now have taken shelter in Zeme cultural hall in Lodi village in Upper Haflong. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India.
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  • Children from different families were victims of communal violence. Families from the Mabauram village whose houses were burnt by suspected Dimasa group now have taken shelter in Zeme cultural hall in Lodi village in Upper Haflong. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India.
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  • 60 year old Rasuile Newme (right) is of the many people from the Mabauram village whose houses were burnt by suspected Dimasa group and now have taken shelter in Zeme cultural hall in Lodi village in Upper Haflong. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India.
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  • Children from different families were victims of communal violence. Families from the Mabauram village whose houses were burnt by suspected Dimasa group now have taken shelter in Zeme cultural hall in Lodi village in Upper Haflong. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India.
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  • 22 year old Thanda (centre)  went into labour when she was in midst of the cyclone Nargis. She gave birth to a baby girl at the back of the shopping centre in a small room with no medical assistance. Her new born baby is popularly known as Nargis baby, even when her real name is Nan Watyi..
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  • Houses were badly destroyed by the cyclone Nargis. Here, the house owner poses inside his broken down house in Falan village in Kyauktan township. Many took shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Houses were badly destroyed by the cyclone Nargis. Here, the house owner poses inside his broken down house in Falan village in Kyauktan township. Many took shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • A young boy looks out of the window of a house badly destroyed by the cyclone Nargis. This house was brought down house in Falan village in Kyauktan township. Many took shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Houses were badly destroyed by the cyclone Nargis. Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • A pregnant woman is seen with her children in the shelter. Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • A pregnant woman is seen with her children in the shelter. Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugee eat their meal at the shelter. Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Children and women struggle to get drinking water distributed by people from the urban areas. Refugees from the 7th ward, Hlaing Thayar township take shelter in the Swethanlwin building shopping complex which is  under construction and has acted as a small refugee centre outside of capital Yangoon, Myanmar.
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  • Refugees from the 7th ward, Hlaing Thayar township take shelter in the Swethanlwin building shopping complex which is  under construction and has acted as a small refugee centre outside of capital Yangoon, Myanmar.
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  • Refugees from the 7th ward, Hlaing Thayar township take shelter in the Swethanlwin building shopping complex which is  under construction and has acted as a small refugee centre outside of capital Yangoon, Myanmar.
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  • Refugees from the 7th ward, Hlaing Thayar township take shelter in the Swethanlwin building shopping complex which is  under construction and has acted as a small refugee centre outside of capital Yangoon, Myanmar.
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  • Sant Ram is paid Rs. 130 (US$ 2.5) after the day's work at the construction site of Asia's Biggest Dome, the Kashi Ram Smarak built by Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mayawati in Lucknow, India.  The dalit chief minister, Mayawati is channeling huge state funds into making statutes of herself with her mentor, Kashi Ram all across Lucknow.
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  • Migrant labourers from Rajasthan and other states are seen working on Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Smarak Parivartan Sthal built by Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mayawati in Lucknow, India.
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  • Migrant workers seen at the construction site of the Uttar Pradesh chief minister's, Mayawati's dream project - the (Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) monument at the Dr. Ambedkar Park in Lucknow, India. The dalit chief minister, Mayawati is channeling huge state funds into making statutes of herself with her mentor, Kashi Ram all across Lucknow.
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  • Migrant labourers from Rajasthan are seen working on the Asia's Biggest Dome, the Kashi Ram Smarak (monument) built by Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mayawati in Lucknow, India. The dalit chief minister, Mayawati is channeling huge state funds into making statutes of herself with her mentor, Kashi Ram all across Lucknow.
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  • The dalit chief minister, Mayawati is channeling huge state funds into making statutes of herself with her mentor, Kashi Ram all across Lucknow. These expensive statues made of 8 different minerals are yet to be revealed. Mayawati had order one of statues to be broken down as it was 'shorter' than the statue of her mentor, Kanshi Ram. The state capital, Lucknow looks like a big construction site and the entire city is given a facelift with stones. Construction is on full swing and migrant labourers come to work from Rajasthan and rural parts of Uttar Pradesh.
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  • The dalit chief minister, Mayawati is channeling huge state funds into making statutes of herself with her mentor, Kashi Ram all across Lucknow. These expensive statues made of 8 different minerals are yet to be revealed. Mayawati had order one of statues to be broken down as it was 'shorter' than the statue of her mentor, Kanshi Ram. The state capital, Lucknow looks like a big construction site and the entire city is given a facelift with stones. Construction is on full swing and migrant labourers come to work from Rajasthan and rural parts of Uttar Pradesh.
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  • The dalit chief minister, Mayawati is channeling huge state funds into making statutes of herself with her mentor, Kashi Ram all across Lucknow. These expensive statues made of 8 different minerals are yet to be revealed. Mayawati had order one of statues to be broken down as it was 'shorter' than the statue of her mentor, Kanshi Ram. The state capital, Lucknow looks like a big construction site and the entire city is given a facelift with stones. Construction is on full swing and migrant labourers come to work from Rajasthan and rural parts of Uttar Pradesh.
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  • Mathumita tutors her son after long day of work at her mother's house in Punaineeravi village in Kilinochchi in Northern Sri Lanka. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Mathumita's son waits for his mother to get his clothes in their house in Punaineeravi village in Kilinochchi in Northern Sri Lanka. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Malnourished children with their mothers are seen at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Khaknar block of Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for ACF
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  • Malnourished children with their mothers are seen at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Khaknar block of Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for ACF
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  • Malnourished children with their mothers are seen at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Burhanpur district of Madhya Pradesh, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for ACF
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  • Young girls share a light moment while local residents gather raw coal and process it in Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • Local residents gather raw coal and process it in Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • Local residents gather raw coal and process it in Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • Local residents gather raw coal and process it in Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • A local villager is seen sitting on coal in Borapahari village in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. One or two houses collapse annually into vast underground caverns left unfilled by abandoned mining operations. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • Women and children wait for their turn for vaccinations at a medical camp in Laxmisuti Boro village area in Assam, India. The boat clinic was first started in 2005 by a non-government organisation, Centre for North-East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES), under public-private partnership with the government to provide health care facilities to geographically and socially excluded people living on these tiny islands. These boats conduct regular camps organised through a network of community health workers and organizers in every  district. On board are fully fledged medical teams of two doctors, three nurses as well as lab technicians and pharmacists, and have space for an out-patients department, doctor's cabin, medicine chest, kitchen, toilet and a general store. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • Women gather at the transit camp in Badagabapur, in Jagatsinghpur, Orissa. Posco Transit Camp is being set up for people who have been driven out of their villages for being pro-Posco, where they live on the side of a highway on $80 a day shared between 195 people.
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  • Children are seen carrying firewood in rain in Village Rajagaon in Block Machreta of Uttar Pradesh, India. The 4 month annual rainfall is crucial to summer sown crops as 60% of the farmlands are rainfed. North India experienced scanty rainfall in late june to july. Till August, rain in India has been 26% below 5 year average. Late rains moist the fields but it is not enough for rice, sugarcane, oilseeds and pulses. Late rains also damage the alternate crops that need less water.
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  • Villagers in Rajagaon in Block Machreta of Uttar Pradesh, India. The 4 month annual rainfall is crucial to summer sown crops as 60% of the farmlands are rainfed. North India experienced scanty rainfall in late june to july. Till August, rain in India has been 26% below 5 year average. Late rains moist the fields but it is not enough for rice, sugarcane, oilseeds and pulses. Late rains also damage the alternate crops that need less water.
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  • A young boy seen in Village Rajagaon in Block Machreta of Uttar Pradesh, India. The 4 month annual rainfall is crucial to summer sown crops as 60% of the farmlands are rainfed. North India experienced scanty rainfall in late june to july. Till August, rain in India has been 26% below 5 yea average. Late rains moist the fields but it is not enough for rice, sugarcane, oilseeds and pulses. Late rains also damage the alternate crops that need less water.
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  • One of the victims of ethnic violence, Ronsomo Langthasa poses in front of her burnt house while her son Sanjit looks on in Jorai village. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India. On 8th May 200, suspected Zeme Naga groups attacked a Dimasa village and burnt down 10 out of 13 houses. In this act of violence, they spared the school and the community centre, where most of the families are taking shelter.
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  • Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India. On 8th May 200, suspected Zeme Naga groups attacked a Dimasa village and burnt down 10 out of 13 houses. In this act of violence, they spared the school and the community centre, where most of the families are taking shelter.
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  • Families from the Mabauram village whose houses were burnt by suspected Dimasa group now have taken shelter in Zeme cultural hall in Lodi village in Upper Haflong. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India.
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  • 12 year old Ihungbe Rinbe is one of the many children who were victims of communal violence. Families from the Mabauram village whose houses were burnt by suspected Dimasa group now have taken shelter in Zeme cultural hall in Lodi village in Upper Haflong. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India.
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  • Children from different families were victims of communal violence. Families from the Mabauram village whose houses were burnt by suspected Dimasa group now have taken shelter in Zeme cultural hall in Lodi village in Upper Haflong. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India.
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  • Children from different families were victims of communal violence. Families from the Mabauram village whose houses were burnt by suspected Dimasa group now have taken shelter in Zeme cultural hall in Lodi village in Upper Haflong. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India.
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  • One of the many families from the Mabauram village whose houses were burnt by suspected Dimasa group and now have taken shelter in Zeme cultural hall in Lodi village in Upper Haflong. Ethnic clashes are regularly taking place between Zeme Nagas and the Dimasa tribe in North Cachar Hills in Assam, India.
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  • Refugees from the 7th ward, Hlaing Thayar township take shelter in the Swethanlwin building shopping complex which is  under construction and has acted as a small refugee centre outside of capital Yangoon, Myanmar.
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  • 22 year old Thanda (centre)  went into labour when she was in midst of the cyclone Nargis. She gave birth to a baby girl at the back of the shopping centre in a small room with no medical assistance. Her new born baby is popularly known as Nargis baby, even when her real name is Nan Watyi..
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  • Refugees from the 7th ward, Hlaing Thayar township take shelter in the Swethanlwin building shopping complex which is  under construction and has acted as a small refugee centre outside of capital Yangoon, Myanmar.
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Houses were badly destroyed by the cyclone Nargis. Here, the house owner poses inside his broken down house in Falan village in Kyauktan township. Many took shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Houses were badly destroyed by the cyclone Nargis. Here, the house owner poses inside his broken down house in Falan village in Kyauktan township. Many took shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Houses were badly destroyed by the cyclone Nargis. Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • The destruction caused by the Nargis. Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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  • Refugees from the Falan village in Kyauktan township take shelter in the Middle school that has been temporarily transformed as a refuge for 18 families and 140 people. .
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