The Photos
Below are photos and stories of people Tearfund have been working with around the world.
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At church Berta is open about her HIV status and confidently shares her situation to the congregation. Courage like this has only served to lower the stygma in Mozambique.
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Mozambique, HIV
Photographer: Peter Caton/Tearfund
Berta with her freinds at Kubatsirana before a group prayer.
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Photographer: Peter Caton/Tearfund
Shingarai Volunteer Lordes, 30, with HIV positive Berta (right). “My family went to Lordez home when I got better to say thank you for what you have done for our daughter” proclaims Berta.
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Photographer: Peter Caton/Tearfund
The best of freinds. HIV positive Berta and her Shingirirai volunteer Lordes at Gondola hospital. Lordes is very supportive towards her friend and is strong for Berta when she is at her most vunerable.
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Photographer: Peter Caton/Tearfund
Twenty eight year old HIV positive Berta returns home after picking sweet potatoes from her land. The potatoes will be sold at the local market.
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Photographer: Peter Caton/Tearfund
Beatrice is a resilient and caring woman. Her family has experienced the horror of armed conflict twice in recent months. She is
expecting a baby, but she also looks after a two-year-old orphan whose father died in the conflict in Congo
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Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Emergencies
Photographer: Richard Hanson, Tearfund
Nyiravogo’s house was destroyed in the confict. She and her family live in this dilapidated building. Tearfund’s partner was able to provide bricks and other materials to rebuild her house.
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Photographer: Richard Hanson, Tearfund
Miujuza has lived with his family of eight in a camp outside of Goma for a full year. The camp is built on volcanic rock. There is no soil. Even if people could work the land the crops would not grow. Tearfund’s partner is helping him return home by providing materials to contruct a new house and tools and seed to plant crops.
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Photographer: Richard Hanson, Tearfund