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  • Afghan women and their children wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Afghan woman and her child wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, right, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, left, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • I nurse checks the IV drugs being administered to Afghan patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • I nurse checks the IV drugs being administered to Afghan patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women wait with their children to be seen by a doctor in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women sit by their children Tofan, 1, left, and Zeeya-u-din, 1, who suffer from severe malnutrition in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: Children watch as a female Afghan inoculator administers the polio vaccination to the child of an Afghan woman  on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Children play on the beach across the bay where all nearly of their homes and boats were destroyed  after the deadly tsunami hit last December 26 in the village of Muzuku Thurai near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India August 26, 2005. Aid agencies  are providing entertainment for children in an effort to help them recover from the severe psycho-social health problems endemic to a catastrophe of this scale. Recovery is slow eight months after the deadly tsunami killed thousands, destroyed homes and livelihoods. The situation is still grim for many who suffer from poor living conditions, depression and many have taken up  alcohol as a means to escape.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children scream as a boy in their school dressed up in a mask tries to scare them at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The children were there for a Japanese music and dance program which concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women sit by their children Tofan, 1, left, and Zeeya-u-din, 1, who suffer from severe malnutrition in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women wait with their children to be seen by a doctor in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Baksesa prepares lunch for children, often their only meal of the day after school in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.    Food is provided by Oxfam in an effort to encourage the children to attend school. the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Children eat lunch, often their only meal of the day after school in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.    Food is provided by Oxfam in an effort to encourage the children to attend school. the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Children watch a puppet show performed by Unicef workers across the bay where all nearly of their homes and boats were destroyed  after the deadly tsunami hit last December 26 in the village of Muzuku Thurai near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India August 26, 2005. Aid agencies  are providing entertainment for children in an effort to help them recover from the severe psycho-social health problems endemic to a catastrophe of this scale. Recovery is slow eight months after the deadly tsunami killed thousands, destroyed homes and livelihoods. The situation is still grim for many who suffer from poor living conditions, depression and many have taken up  alcohol as a means to escape.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • The signs of changing times are evident as Maasai children relax with a game of football as their elders walk by cloaked in traditional clothing during lunch break at the Endulen Primary school in Ngornogoro District in Tanzania September 29, 2003.  Most Maasai now see the value of sending their children to school so they can have a voice in the government to protect themselves with increasing land loss. The Maasai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 in the name of conservation and are being threatened again  under a torrent of new legislation. Like other indigenous people the world over, they continue to be evicted from their land in the name of tourism and conservation. They have lived on these lands for centuries but now struggle to survive on their borders, especially in the difficult drought years. Though they were able to live in harmony with the wildlife for centuries, the places with rich water sources are now preserved for tourists.  Eco-tourism, the government solution to chronic poverty, brings in vast revenues but sadly, the dispossessed Maasai are not allowed to benefit. Only a handful, mostly foreign owned tourist operators profit and only a tiny portion of the money actually filters through to the local economy.
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan child suffering from malnutrition is shown to UNICEF health workers administering the polio vaccination on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an  Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Children carry water for their teacher, Ouedraoga Madi in Zigberi, in a remote part of Burkina Faso in the desert region near the Malian border March 24, 2007. The village had no school and after years of waiting the parents decided to build their own school, desperate to get an education for their children.  Female education in Burkina Faso and West Africa is particularly difficult given the demands placed on the women and girls in society to do all of the household work like pounding the millet, preparing food, getting wood and water which is sparce and often kilometers away.  Ami Vitale
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children practice in their costumes and masks for a Japanese sponsored cultural event August 29, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Zeeya-u-din, 1, who suffers from severe malnutrition cries in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Amir Rahman, 2, and Farshad, 6 months, sleep in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan man with a gun strapped to his back watches as UNICEF workers monitoring the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign speak to villagers September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan man with a gun strapped to his back watches as UNICEF workers monitoring the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign speak to villagers September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A female Afghan inoculator administers the polio vaccination to the child of an Afghan woman  on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A female Afghan inoculator administers the polio vaccination to the child of an internally displaced Afghan women from the Kuchi tribe on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunization campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunized. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: An Afghan police officer gurads the stadium where President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentifies Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: An Afghan police officer gurads the stadium where President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentifies Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: An Afghan security guard and child watch the crowd as their President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentified Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: An Afghan police officer gurads the stadium where President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentifies Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio by administering the first  drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentified Afghan child, September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Children listen to their teacher in a classroom in the  village of Intedeyne March 16, 2007.  She had to drop out of school when she was married at the age of 14.  the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Abouleacrine ag Tadima teaches children basic health in his classroom in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.    the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Children play a game called Takliliko where they fall into the arms of others while singing in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.    the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Children answer questions in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.   the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Abouleacrine ag Tadima teaches children basic health in his classroom in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.    the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Children in a classroom in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.    the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Afghan orphans wait in line to eat lunch at an overcrowded orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan September 1, 2002. There are not enough bowls or tables so the 1800 children must wait in line for the next child to finish before they can eat. Despite the huge amounts of foreign aid being brought into the country, many schools and orphanges have seen none of it yet and the alarming rates of child mortality continue to remain among the worst in the world. One in four children die before the age of 5 here.
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  • A Malawian baby is weighed at a nutritional center for mothers and their children in Mwanza District which is about 100 kilometers west of Blantyre, Malawi, July 2, 2002.   Fabiano was one of many severly malnourished children who came to the hospital suffering from the ongoing food shortage in the region. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003.   photo by Ami Vitale
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  • Tens of thousands of Muslims streamed into makeshift refugee camps after the riots that left more than 120,000 people homeless and hundreds of children orphans.
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women wait with their children to be seen by a doctor in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: An Afghan police officer balances on the edge of the stands as he guards the stadium where President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentifies Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentifies Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 1: Afghan orphans wait in line to eat lunch at an overcrowded orphange in Kabul, Afghanistan September 1, 2002. There are not enough bowls or tables so the 1800 children must wait in line for the next child to finish before they can eat. Despite the huge amounts of foreign aid being brought into the country, many schools and orphanges have seen none of it yet and the alarming rates of child mortality continue to remain among the worst in the world. One in four children die before the age of 5 here.
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  • Afghan girls wait to be visited by a doctor  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Afghanistan has a shortage of female doctors whihc makes women and children even more vulnerable. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • The children of Cosmos Mbawala, 55, Jumada, 5, left, and Salama, 3, sit outside their hut as their father talks about the attack of their brother Cosmos Chakoma, 12, who was killed by a lion in the village of Hingawali, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Children pretend they are lions waiting to eat a villager in the village of Simana, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Wildlife ranger Msese plays with children near Navanga village, Tanzania.
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  • Ali Ipak's children attend the local school December 13, 2005 in central Turkey, Konya in Kutoren district, about 400 kilometers from Ankara. The projects are meant to improve rural poor families livelihoods. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Ali Ipak's children attend the local school December 13, 2005 in central Turkey, Konya in Kutoren district, about 400 kilometers from Ankara. The projects are meant to improve rural poor families livelihoods. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children run through the streets as the Indian Rapid Action Force conduct a flag in the disputed northern Indian city of Ayodhya, March 14, 2002. The police have sealed the city in anticipation of preventing thousands of kar sewaks or holy men from building a temple  near the site of a razed 16th century mosque that ignited a spree of killing.
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  • Village children collect water near sunset in the village of Simana, leaving them extremely vulnerable to lion attacks who catch them in the thick grass. Ami vitale
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  • Massilimani and his wife Punitha put up photographs of their children and relatives who died in the tsunami inside the temporary shelter where they sleep. They wanted to move back to Arynatu beach but are afraid to after a man said he saw ghosts.  Life goes on inside the temporary shelters despite the searing temperatures and daily struggles as families try to  recover from the deadly tsunami in  Nagapattinum district in Tamil Nadu, India August  13, 2005. The recovery process is slow and the situation still grim for many of the worlds poorest who were most affected by the deadly wave.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 4, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 04, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Women and children work in the fields gathering wood in the Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children carry water on their heads through their small village in the Chitrakoot District of  Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children carry water on their heads through their small village in the Chitrakoot District of  Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4:  Afghan Kuchi nomad children that were living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns and Kuchis are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 15, 2004:  Children carry their siblings in a small village in Rukum District April 15, 2004. Ill-equipped security forces in politically unstable Nepal are unable to control  Maoist rebels, who continue to abduct thousands of villagers for forcible indoctrination and military training.  The Maoists mainly target students, teachers and youths. The victims are usually released after a few days of indoctrination, unless they actively resist the "training attempts," in which case the rebels torture or sometimes kill them. Maoist insurgents have capture most of the Western part of Nepal in their attempt to make it a Communist State. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 20, 2004:  Maoist insurgents take a group of children for a cultural education program  in Rukum district April 20, 2004   Maoist rebels continue to abduct thousands of villagers for forcible indoctrination and military training.  The Maoists mainly target students, teachers and youths. The victims are usually released after a few days of indoctrination. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and "people's courts" to settle rows. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers. Though young, they are fearsome fighters and  specialise in night attacks and hit-and-run raids. They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 17, 2004:  A child sits insie a wheat mill in Rukum District April 17, 2004.  Many children are regulalry kidnapped by Maoists in order to eucate them about the movement. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000 hard-core Maoist fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  In their remote strongholds, they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and people's courts. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers.  They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL, APRIL 14, 2004: Nepali nurses look after Sunil Sharma, 9 years old, in a hospital in Nepalganj, Nepal who was injured in an explosion 10 days earlier by Maoist insurgents fighting government forces April 14, 2004.  Over two thousand children have been killed in the fighting which began in 1996.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Manema Walet Issafeytane, the animatrice for the village of Intedeyne, sings songs with children including Zida, to the left of her wearing a headscarf,  March 17, 2007. Mali is one of the poorest countires in the world with 90 percent of the population living on less than $2 per day.
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  • Adaha sits in her home and talks about the need for women and men to be able to have more equality in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.   the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Kashmiri children load themselves up in a rickshaw on their way back from school in the city of Srinagar   in  Kashmir during Ramadan November 21.  Kashmir has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Muslim children sit inside Dariya Khan Ghhumnat Rahat refugee camp set up outside a school in the state of Gujarat in Ahmedabad, India, May 10, 2002. The extent of the damage and displacement of more than 120,000 people has threatened the secular ideals of India and left the government under attack for its inadequate relief arrangements.
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  • QAFIN, WEST BANK, FEBRUARY 21: Palestinian children collect grass in olive groves February 21, 2003 that have been cut down in order to build a wall that will separate the West Bank from Israel alongside their village of Qafin .  The villagers will not be able to access their land once the wall has been erected.(Ami Vitale/Getty Images).
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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of Angola.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates.  .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Children  study at the Endulen Primary school in Ngornogoro District in Tanzania September 30, 2003.  The Masai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 and struggle to hang onto the lands they live on now because of increasing pressure from conservationists. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 4, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 04, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 4, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 04, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 4, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 04, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children attend school in the  Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children attend school in the  Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children attend school in the  Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children attend school in the  Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children uses their heads to carry wood back to their villages in the Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children uses their heads to carry wood back to their villages in the Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children uses their heads to carry wood back to their villages in the Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Zeina Waled Dossane pounds millet in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.   the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Zeina Waled Dossane pounds millet in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.   the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Children and adults together work on the road from Rolpa to Thabang in western Nepal, Nepal March 14, 2005. Nearly every citizen living in the Maoist controlled area must work for 15 days straight, manually digging through the mountaineous region to construct the road that the Maoists promise to bring in defiance to the central government who they say had been promising for decades. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children and adults together work on the road from Rolpa to Thabang in western Nepal, Nepal March 14, 2005. Nearly every citizen living in the Maoist controlled area must work for 15 days straight, manually digging through the mountaineous region to construct the road that the Maoists promise to bring in defiance to the central government who they say had been promising for decades. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children and adults together work on the road from Rolpa to Thabang in western Nepal, Nepal March 14, 2005. Nearly every citizen living in the Maoist controlled area must work for 15 days straight, manually digging through the mountaineous region to construct the road that the Maoists promise to bring in defiance to the central government who they say had been promising for decades. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children and adults together work on the road from Rolpa to Thabang in western Nepal, Nepal March 14, 2005. Nearly every citizen living in the Maoist controlled area must work for 15 days straight, manually digging through the mountaineous region to construct the road that the Maoists promise to bring in defiance to the central government who they say had been promising for decades. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children and adults together work on the road from Rolpa to Thabang in western Nepal, Nepal March 14, 2005. Nearly every citizen living in the Maoist controlled area must work for 15 days straight, manually digging through the mountaineous region to construct the road that the Maoists promise to bring in defiance to the central government who they say had been promising for decades. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children and adults together work on the road from Rolpa to Thabang in western Nepal, Nepal March 14, 2005. Nearly every citizen living in the Maoist controlled area must work for 15 days straight, manually digging through the mountaineous region to construct the road that the Maoists promise to bring in defiance to the central government who they say had been promising for decades. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children and adults together work on the road from Rolpa to Thabang in western Nepal, Nepal March 14, 2005. Nearly every citizen living in the Maoist controlled area must work for 15 days straight, manually digging through the mountaineous region to construct the road that the Maoists promise to bring in defiance to the central government who they say had been promising for decades. (Ami Vitale)
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