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  • Haulage trucks on the Trans-Kalahari highway near the city of Ghanzi, Botswana.
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  • Worshipers at  a Sunday morning church service at the home of Pastor John (far left with shaved head and checkered shirt). Pastor John runs Windows of Hope, a christian church mission in Ghanzi, Botswana that helps orphans and other children in need. Some of the children under his care have been orphaned by AIDS.
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  • Marble Moahi, a 32 year-old mother living with HIV/AIDS, at her home in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Inside the Moahis' family home in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana. The family survives on food rations supplied by the government for an orphaned child.  (Marble Moahi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tables of beef viscera for sale in a market in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate)come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • One of the few relatively well-stocked (but expensive) small markets in Abeche, Chad that carries canned and packaged goods.
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  • Refugees line up for clean drinking water at the Breidjing Refugee Camp in eastern Chad. The arrival of an Oxfam water truck at the camp is an instant call for everyone to show up with a camp-supplied container. The trucks fill yellow waterbed-like bladders, which rest on low platforms. The water flows through buried pipes to watering centers, where half a dozen people can fill up at once without wasting any precious liquid.
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  • Workers stack bags of food aid at the Breidjing Refiugee Camp, run by the UN World Food Programme in eastern Chad. Food distribution at the Breidjing Refugee Camp is very systematic. Following a precise schedule, workers distribute food, including bags of corn-soy mixture and sorghum to block leaders, who then parcel it out to families.
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  • D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, a Sudanese widow at a refugee camp in neighboring Chad, arranges her clothes in the chilly desert dawn as she watches the pot of water she is heating to make aiysh (porridge). Anticipating the new moon at the end of the month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast, she is preparing a celebratory meal for her five children.
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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, located in Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border, shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. in the month of November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper.
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  • Women ride donkeys inside the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. The camp, located near the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • Sudanese refugees enjoy a meal  to mark the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. Some of the families in the refugee camp celebrate the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughter and share. Men eat apart from women.
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  • Young boys take turns to cut each other's hair in preparation for the festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month long fasting period of Ramadan at the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. The refugee camp, which is near the Sudanese border, shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • Amna Mustapha (in yellow dress) and a cousin fill earthen-walled pools with water for their animals near the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. They dip plastic containers into a six-foot well and then pour the water into the handmade pools. The millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall. Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season.
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  • Abdel Karim Aboubakar, a Sudanese refugee at the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 2300 kcals. He is 16 years of age; 5 feet 9.5 inches tall; and 110 pounds. Aboubakar escaped over the border from the Darfur region of Sudan into eastern Chad with his mother and siblings, just ahead of the Janjaweed militia that were burning villages of black Sudanese tribes. Like thousands of other refugees, they were accepted into the camp program administrated by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. Their meals are markedly similar to those they ate in their home country; there's just less of it. They eat a grain porridge called aiysh, with a thin soup flavored with a dried vegetable or sometimes a small chunk of dried meat if Abdel Karim's mother has been able to work in a villager's field for a day or two. MODEL RELEASED. .
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  • A makeshift tent shower used by Abdel Karim Aboubakar's family in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A man roasts a goat head in the Breidjing Refugee Camp located in Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border. The camp shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • A boy digs for water from a nearly dry riverbed (called a wadi) in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, home to 30,000 refugees from Darfur, Sudan. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. in the month of November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper.
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  • Abdel Karim Aboubakar's mother D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds his youngest sister, Hawa, 2 inside the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Aboubakar family from Darfur province, Sudan, which lives in the camp, is one of the thirty families featured with a weeks' worth of food in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, Abdel Kerim, 16, Acha, 12, Youssouf, 8, Mariam, 5, and Hawa, 2. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Farmers plant rice near  the city of Alexandria, Egypt.
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  • Farmers plant rice near the city of Alexandria, Egypt.
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  • The pyramids of Giza as seen through the dust, smoke and haze of Cairo Egypt from the minaret of a mosque in old Cairo.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah drives a camel at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works. (Saleh Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Domesticated since 2000 BC, camels are used less as beasts of burden now, and more for their meat. Because they can run up to 40 miles per hour for short bursts, dealers hobble one leg when they are unloaded at the Birqash market. They are marked with painted symbols to make them easier for buyers and sellers to identify. Both brokers and camels have a reputation for being surly, and the brokers don't hesitate to flail the camels with their long sticks to maintain their dominance. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Brokers negotiate at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah (center, pointing) works.  (Saleh Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Domesticated since 2000 BC, camels are used less as beasts of burden now, and more for their meat. Because they can run up to 40 miles per hour for short bursts, dealers hobble one leg when they are unloaded at the Birqash market. They are marked with painted symbols to make them easier for buyers and sellers to identify. Both brokers and camels have a reputation for being surly, and the brokers don't hesitate to flail the camels with their long sticks to maintain their dominance..
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah marks a camel for easy identification at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt.  (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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