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Friday, January 27, 2012

KENYA - PROBLEMS WITH HIV TESTS

A young boy looks over his mothers shoulder as they wait to be seen at a rural health clinic near tNarok, Kenya on the 24th January 2012. The whole of Kenya has been experiencing a shortage of HIV testing kits since late December so many people who are travelling to VCT's can't be tested. One of the tests used was recalled by the company who made it late in December and the tests still haven't been replaced.

Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Tanzania - Girls Education

Baby Larumba, whose mother died and whose father now lives with another woman, lights a fire for her grandmother to cook on at their homestead near Makuyuni, Tanzania, on the 23rd November, 2011. Baby is one of six girls that I have been revisiting for three years. Her family, who are Masai, were reluctant to allow her to attend school because they wanted to keep her at home to help her ailing grandmother. But she now attends school regularly and is wanting to be a teacher.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

MEDAIR - AFGHANISTAN

Fatima stands in her house with one of her six children in Bamyan Afghanistan on the 19th October, 2011. Fatima's husband died last year and she is now heavily in debt as she borrowed money to pay for his medical expenses and has no means of income. Medair, an NGO working in Panjob have given her some support, but rising food prices and a serious drought throughout Afghanistan mean that she is only able to feed her children bread and tea twice a day.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

BROTHERS IN ARMS EXHIBITION - NAIROBI

Thursday, September 01, 2011

KENYA, DADAAB

Mia Farrow visits Dadaab

Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, meets severely malnourished children on a one day visit to Dadaab Refugee Camp, in Dadaab, Northeastern Kenya on the 26th August, 2011. Mia Farrow is on a visit with UNICEF to Kenya to highlight the ongoing nutrition crisis affecting the Horn of Africa.

Monday, July 25, 2011

DROUGHT - MOGADISHU

Families who have come to Mogadishu from areas of Somalia where a prolonged drought has affected them for nearly four years queue for food guarded by an armed Transitional Federal Government soldier at a feeding point in BadBado camp for Internally Displaced People in Mogadishu, Somalia on the 24th July, 2011. Bad Bado camp houses nearly 30,000 people and was established three weeks ago to cater for new arrivals from Somalias rural areas that have been worst hit by drought.

Saturday, July 09, 2011

DROUGHT - SOMALIA

Shangara Hassan, who is 20 years old and has four children, holds her sick daughter, while another child sleeps behind in a make shift shelter she has built for them all in Dadaab, Northeastern Kenya on the 8th July, 2011. Shangara arrived in Dadaab two weeks ago having walked with her four children from Salag, in Somalia because all of their crops had failed and most of their animals had died. Her husband remained behind to look after their last ten goats. In recent weeks over 1500 Somali refugees have been arriving daily as a result of ongoing drought. and severe pressure is being put on already limited resources in the camps that are now home to nearly 400,000 people.

Kate Holt photojournalist