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Monday, May 21, 2012

KENYA - THE DROUGHT CONTINUES

Fatima Guyo, the mother of Boru Guyo, 14 years old, who sometimes has to miss school because he has to look after his younger brothers and sisters while his mother works, poses for a photographs with her other children at her home in Garba Tulla, Kenya on the 9th May, 2012. The region around Garba Tulla has experience recurring drought for over ten years, and many pastoralists have now lost their livelihoods as a result. Action Aid are working on an agricultural and Water Pan project to provide alternative livelihoods to the most vulnerable in the community.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

CHAD - FIGHT AGAINST POLIO

A community leader, who has been campaigning to ensure that all children in his community are immunised against polio, poses for a photograph at a meeting attended by the Executive Director of UNICEF, Anthony Lake, in N'djamena, Chad on the 5th April, 2012.

Monday, February 27, 2012

UGANDA - DEFORESTATION

An area of indiginous forest burns after a local business man decided to build a shopping centre, by the side of the road near Fort Portal, Uganda, on the 22nd February, 2012. At current rate of deforestation it is estimated that in 20 years time Uganda will have no indiginous forests left, and over two thirds have already gone.

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.

Kate Holt photojournalist