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His father and brother died in recent airstrikes. Many of his neighbors left the village at different times, fleeing the violence. He and his family chose to stay. They found it hard to get food, but received cash from Mercy Corps, which he used for medicine for his son, and food for the family. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_lw9p3e_yemen-201809-emillstein-2121.jpg Al Thurba, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 One year-old Anwar gets treatment at a mobile malnutrition clinic. He has been sick and malnourished, taking a turn for the worse when his family was forced to flee their home due to conflict. Families like his find relative safety in more rural areas, but these places can be difficult to access and pose challenges to getting resources like food and medical care. “During that trip, he was having diarrhea and vomiting,” explains his mother Sahar. “He was in a difficult situation. The trip took us three days, and there is no place on the road to take him to a hospital, so we just had to keep our focus on getting him here.” Mobile malnutrition screening clinics are one of several ways Mercy Corps is solving the challenges posed by the mountainous terrain of Yemen. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_13oatj_yemen-201809-emillstein-1249.jpg Lahj, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 Samira was widowed more than two decades ago, and has been working singelhandedly to support her family. Mercy Corps helped her by providing some goats, which she breeds and sells. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_89tlv6_yemen-201809-emillstein-1015.jpg Lahj, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 Ali, 9, peeks through the doorway of his family's home. His father Wassim used to work as a day laborer, trying to find work wherever he could to support his four children, but jobs are scarce in war-torn Yemen. He would travel far and still not be guaranteed to find enough work to support his family’s basic needs. Wassim was hired by a Mercy Corps cash-for-work project, and helped build an irrigation channel. He used the money to buy a cow and some sheep, and opened a vegetable stand, so he could begin to earn a regular income. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_p5lo21_yemen-201809-emillstein-1972.jpg Al Thurba, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 Fatima and her family fled the fighting in Hodeida, and took refuge in an abandonded school with more than 60 other families. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_pdkdtz_yemen-201809-emillstein-2037.jpg Al Thurba, Yemen SEPTEMBER, 2018 Entikhab has four children and is pregnant with her fifth. She and her family fled fighting in the port city of Hodeida, taking refuge in an abandoned school with more than 60 other families. “One day we woke up to the sound of rockets, Entikhab says. “We were really afraid. We didn’t feel safe. We sold everything we had, everything so we could leave.” They now live in a stairwell and the kids sleep with only a couple of blankets between them and the hard-tiled floor, kept up at night by rats and stinging insects. The family received emergency cash from Mercy Corps, which enabled Entikhab to purchase cooking fuel to safely prepare meals for her children. But their needs are still immense. “You can clearly see how difficult our situation is,” Entikhab says. “Our life is so hard. I am trying to go out and find work. Sometimes I come home with no money, and we go to sleep without food.” https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_hit8dd_yemen-201809-emillstein-1968.jpg Al Thurba, Yemen SEPTEMBER, 2018 Safiha and other members of a marginalized community in Yemen fled violence on Hodieda and sought shelter in an abandoned school. Around 60 families live here, but with no running water, no cooking facilities or bathrooms, and broken windows and doors, the building provides only the most rudimentary shelter. The space is sweltering in summer and bone-chillingly cold in winter, and infested with rats and insects. Safiha received a cash distribution from Mercy Corps to help her meet her basic needs. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_6qw00n_yemen-201809-emillstein-1902_1.jpg Al Thurba, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 This woman and her 3 week-old baby fled violence in Hodeida, and sought shelter in an abandoned school. Around 60 families live here, but with no running water, no cooking facilities or bathrooms, and broken windows and doors, the building provides only the most rudimentary shelter. The space is sweltering in summer and bone-chillingly cold in winter, and infested with rats and insects. She received a cash distribution from Mercy Corps to help her meet her basic needs. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_tcpwjf_yemen-201809-emillstein-1868.jpg Al Thurba, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 Fatima is a mother of six. She and her children fled escalating violence in Hodeida, and found shelter with other members from their marginalized community in an abandoned school. Her husband is injured and cannot seek work so, without an income, they struggle to meet their basic needs. The family received emergency cash from Mercy Corps which they used to purchase food and clothing for the children. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_mph7lr_yemen-201809-emillstein-3399-copy.jpg Al Mahweet, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 Abdullah and his 7-year-old daughter Nehan in a cholera isolation unit, where Nehan has just begun receiving treatment. Mercy Corps is providing cholera clinics with beds, IV fluids and water to help them meet the increasing needs of patients like her. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_ih2jcb_yemen-201809-emillstein-3669_1.jpg Al Mahweet, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 When Khalid’s younger son, Mohammed, fell severely ill from cholera, he carried him for two hours on his back through the mountains to receive treatment. His 10-year-old son Ali is also sick. Mercy Corps is providing cholera clinics in Yemen with beds, IV fluids and water to help them meet the increasing needs of patients like Mohammed. “They are providing us with everything, as I have nothing,” Khalid says of the clinic. “Whenever one of my family members get sick, I just bring them here.” https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_p0ykoa_yemen-201809-emillstein-5212_1.jpg Al Mahweet, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 Rassam, 7, with a jerrycan full of water. His mother Nadia has one wish: for the war in Yemen to stop. Because of the current conflict, her kids can’t attend school; they don’t have enough food; they can’t afford to go to the doctor; and they live in constant fear. “With the current war, there is no future for us or for our kids,” she says. Mercy Corps built a water point in their community, providing them with a safe, affordable source of clean water. Now that they don’t have to rely on expensive water trucking, they can focus their income on other things they need to survive. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_uhoxih_yemen-201809-emillstein-6185.jpg Al Mahweet, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 Malak stands in the hallways of her family's home. Her father Najib is a skilled laborer, a mason and plasterer, but the crisis in Yemen has made it difficult for him to support his family. Mercy Corps hired him as part of a cash-for-work program to build a retaining wall. When people have a marketable skill, it improves their chances and gives them more ways to survive. https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_imezic_yemen-201809-emillstein-6018.jpg Al Mahweet, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 https://storage.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/smgs4yxw_hgvj19rn_9kbrxj_yemen-201809-emillstein-7132.jpg Al Mahweet, Yemen SEPTEMBER 2018 The rugged mountains of northern Yemen. https://ezramillstein.com/syria-crisis monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/syria-201707-emillstein-0256.jpg Syria JULY 2017 Marwa holds her 3 month-old daughter Farah, inside the tent where they are staying temporarily. She and her husband, Ali, fled the violence in their hometown and are now living in a displacement camp. Ali used to work selling vegetables out of his car, but there is no work in the camp. Mercy Corps is helping to meet the needs of families across Syria who are fleeing the violent conflict, providing them with basic essentials. This has included providing new arrival kits in this informal settlement. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/syria-201707-emillstein-0088.jpg Syria JULY 2017 Marwa holds her 3 month-old daughter Farah, inside the tent where they are staying temporarily. She and her husband, Ali, fled the violence in their hometown and are now living in a displacement camp. Ali used to work selling vegetables out of his car, but there is no work in the camp. Mercy Corps is helping to meet the needs of families across Syria who are fleeing the violent conflict, providing them with basic essentials. This has included providing new arrival kits in this informal settlement. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/syria-201707-emillstein-0177.jpg Syria JULY 2017 Ali holds his 3 month-old daughter Farah, inside the tent where they are staying temporarily. She and her husband, Ali, fled the violence in their hometown and are now living in a displacement camp. Ali used to work selling vegetables out of his car, but there is no work in the camp. Mercy Corps is helping to meet the needs of families across Syria who are fleeing the violent conflict, providing them with basic essentials. This has included providing new arrival kits in this informal settlement. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/syria-201707-emillstein-0408.jpg Syria JULY 2017 Mercy Corps is helping to meet the needs of families across Syria who are fleeing the violent conflict, providing them with basic essentials. This has included providing new arrival kits in this informal settlement. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/syria-201707-emillstein-0953.jpg Syria JULY 2017 Abu Goubran with his granddaughter Wia, 1, and a pile of freshly harvested eggplant, tomatoes and watermelon. He does not own land, but has significant agricultural expertise thanks to a lifetime spent working in farming. Mercy Corps connected him to a landowner who was interested in benefiting from that expertise, and provided some resources to improve the farm, including building a greenhouse. Together, they have seen yields increase dramatically. The greenhouse generates 10 times the yield of the same area of land not under a greenhouse, Abu Goubran says. The use of greenhouses is not common in this area, so they were the first to be able to grow out of season vegetables. They use organic methods, with an apiary on site to pollinate the fields. They also open the farm to do training sessions for local farmers on innovative farming techniques. Between Abu Goubran, the landowner, the various laborers who work the fields and another partner who helps with purchasing supplies the farm directly supports four families. The village is home to another 400 families who benefit indirectly from reduced prices and a broader range of foods. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/syria-201707-emillstein-0679.jpg Syria JULY 2017 Abu Goubran's son Safouan, 12, harvests watermelon. Abu Goubran does not own land, but has significant agricultural expertise thanks to a lifetime spent working in farming. Mercy Corps connected him to a landowner who was interested in benefiting from that expertise, and provided some resources to improve the farm, including building a greenhouse. Together, they have seen yields increase dramatically. The greenhouse generates 10 times the yield of the same area of land not under a greenhouse, Abu Goubran says. The use of greenhouses is not common in this area, so they were the first to be able to grow out of season vegetables. They use organic methods, with an apiary on site to pollinate the fields. They also open the farm to do training sessions for local farmers on innovative farming techniques. Between Abu Goubran, the landowner, the various laborers who work the fields and another partner who helps with purchasing supplies the farm directly supports four families. The village is home to another 400 families who benefit indirectly from reduced prices and a broader range of foods. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/jordan-201708-emillstein-2828_1.jpg Azraq, Jordan AUGUST 2017 A boy draws water from a well at Azraq refugee camp. The camp first opened in April 2014. It houses over 20,000 refugees from the conflict in Syria. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/jordan-201807-emillstein-2578.jpg Zaatari, Jordan JULY 2018 Children play on the outskirts of Zaatari refugee camp. Mercy Corps operates a safe space inside Zaatari, where Syrian refugees learn about healthy parenting strategies and make traditional Syrian crafts that help them stay connected to their home. The space, which features a playground, garden, soccer field, and classrooms, gives adults and children a safe place to stay in the middle of the dusty camp. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/jordan-201807-emillstein-2218.jpg Zaatari, Jordan JULY 2018 Badara, 11, holds her little brother Ali, 2, at a youth center run by Mercy Corps. Here, boys and girls participate in activities specifically designed to help them cope with difficult experiences, rebuild confidence and trust in those around them, and develop skills to keep them on the path to a better future. At the centers, art sessions allow kids to work through painful experiences. Sports and exercise help them burn energy and learn about teamwork, determination and values. Classes teach them life skills, including communication, goal setting and time management, and hard skills such as English and computers. Community improvement projects, like mural painting, give them a voice. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/jordan-201807-emillstein-3337.jpg Mafraq, Jordan JULY 2018 Ahmad, 10, a Syrian refugee, plays on a wall next to his neighbor's family's goat pen. The neighbors are Maha, 34, and Mohammad, 39, and they are also Syrian refugees. Mohammad has worked on and off in Jordan for several years, but the war in Syria has made it his permanent home—his house in Syria has been burned down. When his wife followed as war closed in, she was placed in Jordan’s Azraq camp but fled after a few weeks. Together, they struggle to provide for their five children, who are out of school. Maha and Mohammad were separated by the war for more than two years. When they reunited, their daughter, Alala, didn’t recognize him. Today they live together in a small tent in Jordanian desert, trying to scrape together work until peace returns. A few of Maha and Mohammad’s kids are old enough to remember when war broke out in their town. “My daughter, when the plane came … she started to cry, because she saw, in front of us, the plane carrying out massacres of innocent people,” Maha says. In Syria, Mohammad and Maha were small farmers raising their kids in peace. But since war forced them from home, now they live as refugees, struggling to cope with what their family has been through. “I swear that when the night comes, and we hear the sound of planes, my body starts to shake out of fear for my sons,” Maha says. Mercy Corps connected the family to mobile banking, which they use to pay bills and save money on their phones. Their dream today is to continue on to Europe where their kids can continue their educations and live in peace. “I’ve suffered,” Mohammad says. “I don’t want them to suffer like me.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/jordan-201807-emillstein-3380.jpg Mafraq, Jordan JULY 2018 Maha, 34, holds her 1-year-old daughter Heba. They are Syrian refugees. Maha's husband Mohammad has worked on and off in Jordan for several years, but the war in Syria has made it his permanent home—his house in Syria has been burned down. When his wife followed as war closed in, she was placed in Jordan’s Azraq camp but fled after a few weeks. Together, they struggle to provide for their five children, who are out of school. Maha and Mohammad were separated by the war for more than two years. When they reunited, their daughter, Alala, didn’t recognize him. Today they live together in a small tent in Jordanian desert, trying to scrape together work until peace returns. A few of Maha and Mohammad’s kids are old enough to remember when war broke out in their town. “My daughter, when the plane came … she started to cry, because she saw, in front of us, the plane carrying out massacres of innocent people,” Maha says. In Syria, Mohammad and Maha were small farmers raising their kids in peace. But since war forced them from home, now they live as refugees, struggling to cope with what their family has been through. “I swear that when the night comes, and we hear the sound of planes, my body starts to shake out of fear for my sons,” Maha says. Mercy Corps connected the family to mobile banking, which they use to pay bills and save money on their phones. Their dream today is to continue on to Europe where their kids can continue their educations and live in peace. “I’ve suffered,” Mohammad says. “I don’t want them to suffer like me.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/jordan-201807-emillstein-0997.jpg Mafraq, Jordan JULY 2018 Ahmad, 51, holds his granddaughters Zinab, 2, and Bilasan, 6 months. They are Syrian refugees living in an informal tent settlement. They fled Syria in 2012 when a bomb destroyed their home. Since then, they have lived in a tent community with 23 other families, where Ahmad built a schoolhouse that teaches more than 40 Syrian kids. Ahmad was a farmer back in Syria, but when he saw how none of the children in this community could read or write, he decided to be their teacher. The walls of his classroom are covered in posters teaching English, Arabic, science and math, while the ceiling is decorated with recycled materials the children gathered. “I try to put hope for the children here. So I’m proud of what I did,” he says. More than 700,000 Syrian refugee children are out of school. Ahmad built this classroom so that when the time comes for the kids in his community to return to Syria, they’ll be ready to pick up their education again. “I built everything here by myself,” he says. “I started this to teach children here, because if I didn’t, they would take their own direction in their life and do the wrong thing, like drugs or going to the streets. Children in this generation are our future. Because of that, I started this school.” Ahmad’s school teaches children ranging from ages 5 to 13. They meet from 8 a.m. to noon, six days a week. At first there were no chairs, and the students sat on rocks in the sand. The community pulled together to help buy carpet, stools, and school materials. “It’s a benefit for everyone here,” he says. Ahmad uses Khabrona, a digital platform built by Mercy Corps and Cisco to help refugees access critical services through their cell phones. Once he used the app, he was able to get documentation for his son to live legally in the country. “I felt relief,” he says. “I felt like I was legal because I could go back and forth and my child could go back and forth … This program really helped a lot of families.” Ahmad lives about 13 miles from the Syrian border—close enough to hear the sound of airstrikes in the distance. The sound is a reminder of the life he used to have and the struggles he’s endured for his family’s safety. “I used to own a farm, now I’m working for a farmer. I used to make people work for me and respect them, now I’m working for someone who doesn’t respect me,” he says. “It was really hard. We have a lot of depression.” Ahmad has a close relationship with the kids in his school, who call him Teacher or Uncle. When the kids hear the airstrikes, they often come to him to ask him to explain it. “Most of the children actually didn’t live this, so at first they didn’t know,” he says. “They thought it was fireworks. But after they go back to their parents and start to see the news, they come back to me and ask me about it, “We saw the news and people died and everything.” I tried to make the picture better, but you can’t. I tried, but it will stay a black picture because someone died.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/jordan-201807-emillstein-1074.jpg Mafraq, Jordan JULY 2018 A girl attends class in a tent in an informal settlement outside Mafraq, where 23 families live. Her teacher, Ahmad, 51, built the schoolhouse that teaches more than 40 Syrian kids. Ahmad was a farmer back in Syria, but when he saw how none of the children in this community could read or write, he decided to be their teacher. The walls of his classroom are covered in posters teaching English, Arabic, science and math, while the ceiling is decorated with recycled materials the children gathered. “I try to put hope for the children here. So I’m proud of what I did,” he says. More than 700,000 Syrian refugee children are out of school. Ahmad built this classroom so that when the time comes for the kids in his community to return to Syria, they’ll be ready to pick up their education again. “I built everything here by myself,” he says. “I started this to teach children here, because if I didn’t, they would take their own direction in their life and do the wrong thing, like drugs or going to the streets. Children in this generation are our future. Because of that, I started this school.” Ahmad’s school teaches children ranging from ages 5 to 13. They meet from 8 a.m. to noon, six days a week. At first there were no chairs, and the students sat on rocks in the sand. The community pulled together to help buy carpet, stools, and school materials. “It’s a benefit for everyone here,” he says. Ahmad uses Khabrona, a digital platform built by Mercy Corps and Cisco to help refugees access critical services through their cell phones. Once he used the app, he was able to get documentation for his son to live legally in the country. “I felt relief,” he says. “I felt like I was legal because I could go back and forth and my child could go back and forth … This program really helped a lot of families.” Ahmad lives about 13 miles from the Syrian border—close enough to hear the sound of airstrikes in the distance. The sound is a reminder of the life he used to have and the struggles he’s endured for his family’s safety. “I used to own a farm, now I’m working for a farmer. I used to make people work for me and respect them, now I’m working for someone who doesn’t respect me,” he says. “It was really hard. We have a lot of depression.” Ahmad has a close relationship with the kids in his school, who call him Teacher or Uncle. When the kids hear the airstrikes, they often come to him to ask him to explain it. “Most of the children actually didn’t live this, so at first they didn’t know,” he says. “They thought it was fireworks. But after they go back to their parents and start to see the news, they come back to me and ask me about it, “We saw the news and people died and everything.” I tried to make the picture better, but you can’t. I tried, but it will stay a black picture because someone died.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/lebanon-201808-emillstein-1125.jpg Sidon, Lebanon AUGUST 2018 This avocado farm in southern Lebanon sells seedlings to local farmers. Support from Mercy Corps provided an irrigation system that helped the business plant an additional 24,000 trees and hire new farmers, including Moufideh, a Syrian refugee. More than 150 local farmers buy their trees from this business, which has grown rapidly thanks to Mercy Corps’ support. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/lebanon-201708-emillstein-0622_1.jpg Bekaa Valley, Lebanon AUGUST 2017 Iman (26) sits inside her family's shelter in an informal settlement. They fled Raqqa when ISIS took over, almost five years ago. She was displaced in another region of Syria, and made her way to Lebanon about a year ago. Iman is a single mother who benefitted from a cash-for-work program, in which she rehabilitated a community garden with 20 other Lebanese and Syrian people. They cleared the land, planted trees and installed benches. She used her wages to rent shelter for her family. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/lebanon-201708-emillstein-0250.jpg Bekaa Valley, Lebanon AUGUST 2017 Mercy Corps is running Gender Based Violence sessions to teach both men and women about gender, equality and conflict resolution. Women face a lot of risks in their current situation; violence, beatings and rape are all concerns. Diana (pictured), 18, left Syria with her family when she was 11 or 12. Her mother, Kaffa, hosts the sessions in her home, and even though they have only been in operation for 2 weeks, they have become very popular. Kaffa and her family fled from Syria; it took them 4 days to get to Lebanon. 'We fled from death, we fled from hunger and terror," she said. Her husband cannot work because he has a herniated disc, so Kaffa takes care of him. When they first arrived, they did not have any shelter. Everyone who could work had to start working, including the children (as young as 9) in the fields for about $4 a day so that they could rent some kind of shelter. "I feel safe here - there is no more war, no more killing, no more death. I have secured my family so now I am able to sleep at night." https://ezramillstein.com/recovering-from-boko-haram monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-3090.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-2390.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-3706.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-6401.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-4885.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-1062_1.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-4075_1.jpg October 2018, Biu, Nigeria. Fatima, 17, in her family's home. She started her own business selling sugar. She was motivated to start after learning about savings and money management in Mercy Corps’ I-SING program, which provides safe spaces, livelihood grants and vocational training to vulnerable youth in Boko Haram affected communities in Nigeria. Now she sells in two locations — her home and her father’s retail shop — and saves the income between a home bank and the Mercy Corps-facilitated savings group (VSLA) where she is a member. When the VSLA pays out next month, she is excited to build her business even more. Even though her family is struggling to meet their needs, Fatima is determined to finish school and be self-sufficient, believing independent women are the key to development. She wants to be a midwife when she is older, so she can help women more. October 2018, Biu, Nigeria. Fatima, 17, in her family's home. She started her own business selling sugar. She was motivated to start after learning about savings and money management in Mercy Corps’ I-SING program, which provides safe spaces, livelihood grants and vocational training to vulnerable youth in Boko Haram affected communities in Nigeria. Now she sells in two locations — her home and her father’s retail shop — and saves the income between a home bank and the Mercy Corps-facilitated savings group (VSLA) where she is a member. When the VSLA pays out next month, she is excited to build her business even more. Even though her family is struggling to meet their needs, Fatima is determined to finish school and be self-sufficient, believing independent women are the key to development. She wants to be a midwife when she is older, so she can help women more. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-1493.jpg Gombe, Nigeria OCTOBER 2018 Suwaiba Yakubu Adam (18, brown hijab) teaches a group of 25 girls from her community who she identified and recruited herself. Using the same curriculum she learned from Mercy Corps, she guides lessons in everything from financial literacy to sexual health, believing sharing of this knowledge can be transformative for them. Suwaiba has been through a great deal in her 18 years: the death of both her parents, harassment by local gangs, attacks by Boko Haram. Yet she perseveres, stoic and determined, crediting her parents for instilling in her a desire to help people. After participating in Mercy Corps’ girls group in her community — part of the I-SING program, which provides life and vocational skills to vulnerable youth in Boko Haram-affected areas — Suwaiba felt so strongly that more girls should have the opportunity that she started leading her own group, independent of the Mercy Corps program. With the Boko Haram crisis behind her, she’s continuing to pursue to her own ambitions too: she wants to complete school and become a pharmacist, because it’s a way to serve her community. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-4796.jpg Biu, Nigeria OCTOBER 2018 Jauny Danyaro Mary cooks vegetables in front of her home. She fled a Boko Haram attack in her village four years ago — the group came in the middle of the night, forcing her and her family to run with whatever they were wearing and little else. Her father was shot and killed in the attack; Mary made it to Biu, but her life has been difficult since. Upon arriving, she took in six orphans whose parents had either been killed or could no longer care for them, worrying they wouldn’t have a future if she didn’t. Mary has four biological children as well (one of whom recently passed away), and has struggled immensely to feed them with what she can grow and cultivate herself on land she pays to rent. Without an income, she says she is also at risk of losing their shelter, which she must pay rent on soon. Mary received emergency food support from Mercy Corps, which fed them for about 10 months, and has since received a livelihood grant as part of the early recovery work implemented as security has improved in Biu. Mary purchased bulk cereals — rice, millet, other grains — to sell from her home in smaller quantities, which she now does one day a week, when she is not at the farm, to earn income. The money helps her purchase food for the children — but the future is still uncertain, and she worries she won’t be able to keep a shelter over their heads. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-6139.jpg Dikwa, Nigeria OCTOBER 2018 In the “garrison” town of Dikwa, where daily life is an excruciating waiting game. Boko Haram is still active in this area in the very northeast corner of Nigeria, and the military can currently only offer safety within the town’s borders. So around 7,000 IDPs have sheltered here, receiving relative security that comes at the cost of their ability to farm and move freely, rendering them almost completely dependent on aid and able to do little more than watch and wait until peace returns enough that they can return home or otherwise rebuild. People’s ability to meet their basic needs is extremely limited, with almost no income opportunities and many risking their lives to travel to the bush to collect firewood just so they can cook food for their families. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-5372.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-6798_1.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-5966_1.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-7887_1.jpg Recovering from Boko Haram | ezramillstein.com View Recovering from Boko Haram by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-7661.jpg Tunga, Nigeria OCTOBER 2018 Moses (striped shirt), a 45 year-old fisherman, and his son Paul, 25, fish on a slow, muddy river near their home. As a lifelong fisherman, Moses depends on the water to provide food and income for his family. But in an agricultural community where nearly everyone relies on natural resources, competition over land and water can cause tension and even conflict. Fisherman like Moses are often at odds with pastoralists, who bring their animals to the water and can cause contamination. Conflict between farmers and herders, largely over competition natural resources like land and water, has been ongoing for decades in Nigeria’s “Middle Belt” region, where Tunga is, but it has recently been exacerbated by population growth and the increasing effects of climate change. Across the region, thousands have been killed and more than 300,000 have reportedly been displaced by violence and reprisal attacks this year. Mercy Corps is doing peacebuilding work in the Middle Belt, helping both sides learn conflict-management skills and providing opportunities for peaceful dialogue. Moses participated in a conflict prevention forum — a facilitated dialogue between differing groups that offers a chance for everyone to voice their concerns — and a conflict management training that taught community members how to peacefully work through disagreements. Since then he has mediated several conflicts in his community and has seen even households begin to live more peacefully. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/nigeria-201810-emillstein-7629.jpg Tunga, Nigeria OCTOBER 2018 Moses (striped shirt), a 45 year-old fisherman, and his son Paul, 25, fish on a slow, muddy river near their home. As a lifelong fisherman, Moses depends on the water to provide food and income for his family. But in an agricultural community where nearly everyone relies on natural resources, competition over land and water can cause tension and even conflict. Fisherman like Moses are often at odds with pastoralists, who bring their animals to the water and can cause contamination. Conflict between farmers and herders, largely over competition natural resources like land and water, has been ongoing for decades in Nigeria’s “Middle Belt” region, where Tunga is, but it has recently been exacerbated by population growth and the increasing effects of climate change. Across the region, thousands have been killed and more than 300,000 have reportedly been displaced by violence and reprisal attacks this year. Mercy Corps is doing peacebuilding work in the Middle Belt, helping both sides learn conflict-management skills and providing opportunities for peaceful dialogue. Moses participated in a conflict prevention forum — a facilitated dialogue between differing groups that offers a chance for everyone to voice their concerns — and a conflict management training that taught community members how to peacefully work through disagreements. Since then he has mediated several conflicts in his community and has seen even households begin to live more peacefully. https://ezramillstein.com/children-of-mosul monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/iraq-201707-emillstein-3565.jpg Qayyarah Jeddah, Iraq JULY 2017 Abdulrahman Saleh sleeps on the floor just inside his family's tent at the Jeddah IDP camp. His family has been displaced for 9 months, since their home was completely destroyed. “We left only with the clothes we were wearing. We were in the desert for three days without anything,” says Yaser's mother, Sana Fathi Abdullah Younes. They are one of 400 families that received NFI kits from Mercy Corps on this day; the kit included 6 blankets, 2 jerrycans, a tarp and a rope. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/iraq-201707-emillstein-3476.jpg Qayyarah Jeddah, Iraq JULY 2017 A boy looks out the window of his family's tent at the Jeddah IDP camp. Families fleeing the violence in Mosul are often unable to bring anything with them. In displacement camps, Mercy Corps is delivering essential supplies to help people survive. New arrival kits include: cooking pot and pan, plates, glasses, silverware, serving spoon, stainless steel kitchen knife, 6 light weight blankets, 1 rope, 1 tarp and 2 jerry cans. To provide one family with these household essentials costs approximately $70 USD / 60 Euro / 54 GBP. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/iraq-201707-emillstein-2463.jpg Mosul, Iraq JULY 2017 Ibrahim, 6, is the youngest of Wasila’s three children. Her husband was a police officer who was killed during the recent conflict. She herself was beaten many times, and her daughter Sarah still suffers from her wounds, and from what she termed a “mental shock.” Her son Ibrahim is shy. She says that Ibrahim says he wants to be a policeman. Wasila said that Ibrahim "keeps it in his heart. He processes these things in his mind.” They received a $400 cash distribution from Mercy Corps, which they will use for food, cooking gas, and to pay the generator supplier for electricity. Cash assistance is the quickest and most efficient way of helping because people can buy what they and their families need most. Since July 2016, Mercy Corps has helped more than 12,000 families impacted by conflict around Mosul. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/iraq-201707-emillstein-1688.jpg Mosul, Iraq JULY 2017 Shahad Moatez Hashem, 5, plays on an improvised swing. She lives with her grandmother, Faiza Abdulrazak Aziz. Faiza and her extended family fled from ISIS. There is nothing left at their house; their car was burned and their home was destroyed. They share a home with five families. She has six children, three boys and three girls, and six grandchildren living in the shared house. The family received a $400 cash distribution from Mercy Corps. Cash assistance is the quickest and most efficient way of helping because people can buy what they and their families need most. Since July 2016, Mercy Corps has helped more than 12,000 families impacted by conflict around Mosul. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/iraq-201707-emillstein-1663.jpg Mosul, Iraq JULY 2017 Mustafa, 9, carries his 6 month-old cousin Rayan. They live with their grandmother, Faiza Abdulrazak Aziz, She and her extended family fled from ISIS. There is nothing left at their house; their car was burned and their home was destroyed. They share a home with five families. She has six children, three boys and three girls, and six grandchildren living in the shared house. The family received a $400 cash distribution from Mercy Corps. Cash assistance is the quickest and most efficient way of helping because people can buy what they and their families need most. Since July 2016, Mercy Corps has helped more than 12,000 families impacted by conflict around Mosul. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/iraq-201707-emillstein-2973.jpg Qayyarah Jeddah, Iraq JULY 2017 Muthana Raeed, 6, and her family went to an NFI distribution at the Jeddah IDP camp. Families fleeing the violence in Mosul are often unable to bring anything with them. In displacement camps, Mercy Corps is delivering essential supplies to help people survive. New arrival kits include: cooking pot and pan, plates, glasses, silverware, serving spoon, stainless steel kitchen knife, 6 light weight blankets, 1 rope, 1 tarp and 2 jerry cans. To provide one family with these household essentials costs approximately $70 USD / 60 Euro / 54 GBP. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/iraq-201707-emillstein-2982.jpg Qayyarah Jeddah, Iraq. JULY 2017 Muthana Raeed (6, bottom) and her sister Mazin (13, top) went to an NFI distribution at the Jeddah IDP camp. Families fleeing the violence in Mosul are often unable to bring anything with them. In displacement camps, Mercy Corps is delivering essential supplies to help people survive. New arrival kits include: cooking pot and pan, plates, glasses, silverware, serving spoon, stainless steel kitchen knife, 6 light weight blankets, 1 rope, 1 tarp and 2 jerry cans. To provide one family with these household essentials costs approximately $70 USD / 60 Euro / 54 GBP. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/iraq-201707-emillstein-3252.jpg Qayyarah Jeddah, Iraq JULY 2017 Freeal Jummah, 15, holds two jerrycans that her family received as part of a Mercy Corps NFI distribution. Hers is one of 400 families that received NFI kits from Mercy Corps on this day; the kit included 6 blankets, 2 jerrycans, a tarp and a rope. Before the crisis, her family farmed for a living. They fled the fighting in Shirqat, south of Mosul, and have been in IDP camps since January. Freeal and her siblings wait in line for water twice a day for up to an hour. Her mother, Hela Salama Jummah, said "This is my country, my birthplace. I would hope to be able to go home.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/IMG_9495_1.jpg Khabat, Iraq JULY 2017 Youth, IDPs and refugees attend a music class at a Mercy Corps Youth Center. Boys and girls have the opportunity to attend courses there for a few hours a day from Sunday to Thursday each week. The classes include language, music, media and sports. https://ezramillstein.com/mercy-corps---africa monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/kenya-201802-emillstein-1117_1.jpg Mercy Corps - Africa | ezramillstein.com View Mercy Corps - Africa by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/kenya-201803-emillstein-1980.jpg Anole, Kenya MARCH 2018 Kaltuma Sheikh Abdullahi, 30, stares out at a reclaimed reservoir in Anole, a small village about 85 km northeast of Wajir. Mercy Corps helped expand the reservoir so the community could get through the drought that has been punishing the region. Mercy Corps also helped to set up an system to control animal access to the water so to avoid disease and fouling of the water. With a pastoral economy based on herding livestock, Kaltuma and her neighbors feel every twitch of the climate, and lately, the rains have been all wrong. Previously the rains used to come twice a year: once at the beginning of the year and once at the end. Now the rains are less frequent and lighter. Sometimes it will be two years between rains, and although it had rained the night before Mercy Corps visited the village, turning the packed dirt roads to muddy rivers (the first rain since the end of November), it was only one day, and it’s not enough to do much against a four-year drought. To help communities like Kaltuma's 30 adapt to climate change, Mercy Corps has conducted awareness campaigns on how to protect natural resources. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/4R3A6717_1.jpg Mercy Corps - Africa | ezramillstein.com View Mercy Corps - Africa by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-3480_1.jpg Ale, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Kegna, 8, carries grass on a steep hillside near Ale. Mercy Corps is working with villagers to protect their land so they have enough grass to feed their cattle and survive the dry season. As drought becomes worse, rangeland like this becomes more precious to keep cattle healthy. Mercy Corps is helping villagers protect their land so they can sell cattle at a profit to survive the worsening dry season. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-2283_1.jpg Ale, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Otitte, 24, cuts grass on a steep hillside near Ale. Mercy Corps is working with villagers to protect their land so they have enough grass to feed their cattle and survive the dry season. As drought becomes worse, rangeland like this becomes more precious to keep cattle healthy. Mercy Corps is helping villagers protect their land so they can sell cattle at a profit to survive the worsening dry season. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-1246_1.jpg Ale, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 During the dry season, there is no water in the river and Manase, 40, must dig through sand until she hits water. “The water problem in our village is very serious,” she says. She and her husband grow teff, maize, and sorghum to support their seven children. Her husband leads a savings group that helps support the community when crops fail. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-4278_1.jpg Kanso, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Beyene, 42, and his son Kefita, 17, hold a eucalyptus seedling at their nursery deep in the forest outside Konso. They also grow coffee, avocado and mango, and sell them to their local agriculture office. Beyene won a 100,000 birr ($3,500 USD) grant from Mercy Corps to expand his business, which he used to buy more plants, build a water basin, and construct a shed. “Previously, I had only ambition,” he says. “It was a complete surprise to me…I felt like I was born again.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-5125_1.jpg Gidole, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Aselefech, 32, holds a mold used to make cookstoves. Mercy Corps trained her to build clean cookstoves alongside three other mothers and provided support to put her kids through school. In Gidole, Mercy Corps is helping promote girls’ education by supporting women and children through the PEG program. The students receive support to finish their education, and their mothers receive job skills training and small business support. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-5731_1.jpg Gidole, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Rahima (24) with her 5 month-old son Robin. Rahima is studying electrical engineering in university thanks in part to support she received from Mercy Corps while in high school. Through the PEG program, Mercy Corps is helping provide school materials for girls in Gidole and income-generating activities for their mothers. Mercy Corps provided school uniforms and supplies for Rahima and helped train her mother to start her own business. Rahima will graduate from Arba Minch University with a degree in electrical engineering—the first girl in her family to graduate school. “First, education is a tool that widens your horizons,” she says. “Second, it is through education that you can do something in the future. Without education, everything is meaningless. But through education you can create your own income. Education is very important, not only for me but for other girls.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-6057_1.jpg Gidole, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Rahima (24) sits outside at her alma mater, Gidole High School. Rahima is studying electrical engineering in university thanks in part to support she received from Mercy Corps while in high school. Through the PEG program, Mercy Corps is helping provide school materials for girls in Gidole and income-generating activities for their mothers. Mercy Corps provided school uniforms and supplies for Rahima and helped train her mother to start her own business. Rahima will graduate from Arba Minch University with a degree in electrical engineering—the first girl in her family to graduate school. “First, education is a tool that widens your horizons,” she says. “Second, it is through education that you can do something in the future. Without education, everything is meaningless. But through education you can create your own income. Education is very important, not only for me but for other girls.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-6116_1.jpg Gidole, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Students at Gidole High School. Through the PEG program, Mercy Corps is helping provide school materials for girls in Gidole and income-generating activities for their mothers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-6207_1.jpg Gidole, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 March 2019, Gidole, Ethiopia. The hillside town of Gidole. Through the PEG program, Mercy Corps is helping provide school materials for girls in Gidole and income-generating activities for their mothers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-6329_1.jpg Gidole, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Fatuma, 18, holds her 5 month-old nephew Robin. Fatuma's sister Rahima is studying electrical engineering in university thanks in part to support she received from Mercy Corps while in high school. Through the PEG program, Mercy Corps is helping provide school materials for girls in Gidole and income-generating activities for their mothers. Mercy Corps provided school uniforms and supplies for Rahima and helped train her mother to start her own business. Rahima will graduate from Arba Minch University with a degree in electrical engineering—the first girl in her family to graduate school. “First, education is a tool that widens your horizons,” she says. “Second, it is through education that you can do something in the future. Without education, everything is meaningless. But through education you can create your own income. Education is very important, not only for me but for other girls.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-7719_1.jpg Hartasheik, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Maryan, 28, is a single mother of three small children who owns her own sewing business in Hartesheik, Ethiopia. With little education or experience, she sought a way to provide for her children after divorcing her husband. A three-week skills training from Mercy Corps gave her the experience she needed to open her own business, which now provides for her family. Prolonged dry seasons due to climate change have affected Maryan’s business. She has no savings during the dry season due to fewer customers and must make up for it during the rainy times of the year. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-7984_1.jpg Hartasheik, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Khadra, 42, is chairwoman of a savings group supported by Mercy Corps in Hartasheik, Ethiopia. In the beginning, women in this group were saving about $1 per month. Now the group has grown to 80 people and has saved nearly $7,000, which they use to launch small businesses. Khadra did not receive an education when she was younger and leads this group without being able to read or write. Her children, who are all in school, thanks to her success, help her. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-8335_1.jpg Hartasheik, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Samatan, 10, holds a goat in front of his family's house. His mother Safiya, 45, is a community leader in Hartasheik, Ethiopia. Mercy Corps trained her and several others in her community to help change dangerous traditional behaviors about women’s health and natural resource management. Now the community is connected to health services and protecting the vital land that provides for them. “Women should take leadership roles, and I feel comfortable doing it,” she says. “It’s obvious that women are taking the lead in Ethiopia. The leadership is there and women are taking hold of it.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-8354_1.jpg Hartasheik, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Farhan, 12, holds a goat in front of his family's house. His mother Safiya, 45, is a community leader in Hartasheik, Ethiopia. Mercy Corps trained her and several others in her community to help change dangerous traditional behaviors about women’s health and natural resource management. Now the community is connected to health services and protecting the vital land that provides for them. “Women should take leadership roles, and I feel comfortable doing it,” she says. “It’s obvious that women are taking the lead in Ethiopia. The leadership is there and women are taking hold of it.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-8437_1.jpg Hartasheik, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Farhan, 12, holds a goat in front of his family's house. His mother Safiya, 45, is a community leader in Hartasheik, Ethiopia. Mercy Corps trained her and several others in her community to help change dangerous traditional behaviors about women’s health and natural resource management. Now the community is connected to health services and protecting the vital land that provides for them. “Women should take leadership roles, and I feel comfortable doing it,” she says. “It’s obvious that women are taking the lead in Ethiopia. The leadership is there and women are taking hold of it.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ethiopia-201903-emillstein-9191_1.jpg Dembal, Ethiopia MARCH 2019 Ali, 50, is a livestock trader. Through the PRIME project, Mercy Corps opened a slaughterhouse in nearby Jijiga that buys animals from him. Since he no longer has to export them to Addis Ababa on the other side of the country, his livelihood has improved significantly. As climate change gets worse, Ali says, local pastoralists are bracing for longer droughts. “People in this area predict rain through their experience and using the stars,” he says. “They know how to forecast it very well. They see the stars and the signs in the wind and use different indicators to predict the coming rain season. This year they are very afraid.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-0222_1.jpg Chimanimani, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 Women wait in line for food at a distribution point called Skyline, on a ridge surrounded by mudslides. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-0571_1.jpg Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. MARCH 2019 Children wait in line for clothing at a distribution point called Skyline, on a ridge surrounded by mudslides. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-1239_1.jpg Chimanimani, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 People wait in line for food at a distribution point called Skyline, on a ridge surrounded by mudslides. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-1763_1.jpg Chimanimani, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 Utility workers walk across the remains of a bridge over the Nyahodi river, which burst its banks and washed away an entire market full of stalls, vendors and customers. It is estimated that 14 bridges around Chimanimani were destroyed, paralyzing transportation and making aid delivery slow and treacherous. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-2290_1.jpg Ngangu, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 Tamary Zunga, 52, searches for personal belongings amidst the wreckage of her home. Luckily nobody was home when a mudslide destroyed the house, and all of the crops surrounding it. Tamary says that nobody in the community can remember seeing a storm like this since 1942. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-2514_1.jpg Ngangu, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 A man digs in a pile of debris, hoping as he has for a week that he will be able to find one of his missing relatives. There are differing accounts of how many lives have been lost there, but it is clearly more than 40, and many people are unaccounted for. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-2547_1.jpg Ngangu, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 A box of muddy shoes that Anthony Machingauta, 52, recovered from his home. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-2608_1.jpg Ngangu, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 Anthony Machingauta, 52, is a schoolteacher. His son Leonard, 15, sits on his lap in the middle of their home. On March 16th, rains from Cyclone Idai unleashed mudslides from the hills surrounding Ngangu, which crushed the front wall of their house and exited out a side wall, leaving 4 feet of mud and unmovable boulders throughout their home. Anthony and his three sons all survived, but he is concerned about how he will be able to afford to feed them and pay their school fees. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-2878_1.jpg Ngangu, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 A damaged bridge on the road to Ngangu. This is the first cyclone in more than a decade to strike Zimbabwe. Strong winds and heavy rains particularly in Chimanimani and Chipinge districts have resulted in flash floods and destruction of infrastructure including houses, bridges, schools and utility lines. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-1796_1.jpg Chimanimani, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 Mercy Corps WASH Specialist Vimbayi Mazanhi (right) peers over the edge of a damaged bridge over the Nyahodi river, which burst its banks and washed away an entire market full of stalls, vendors and customers. It is estimated that 14 bridges around Chimanimani were destroyed, paralyzing transportation and making aid delivery slow and treacherous. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/zimbabwe-201903-emillstein-1873_1.jpg Chimanimani, Zimbabwe MARCH 2019 A boy walks across the remains of a road next to the Nyahodi river, which burst its banks and washed away an entire market full of stalls, vendors and customers. It is estimated that 14 bridges around Chimanimani were destroyed, paralyzing transportation and making aid delivery slow and treacherous. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/niger-201810-emillstein-3503.jpg Sargane, Niger OCTOBER 2018 Halima Issoufou, 26, shares a meal of millet porridge with her daughgter. Halima lives with her husband and three children in a rudimentary mud hut in a rural village outside Niger’s capital city, Niamey. Families here rely heavily on agriculture and nearly everyone lives hand-to-mouth. Halima’s family is no exception, and her daily life is not unlike every other woman’s in her village: from sunrise to sunset she works to care for the household, spending most of her time laboring over the day’s next meal. Every day she cleans the home and dishes, collects water and firewood, and pounds millet to make the family’s porridge, an arduous, lengthy process which she finishes just in time to start again. But all this work isn’t enough, and the family often goes without eating — poverty is rife and they are not able to grow enough food to last them the year. “In this area, people’s lives are based on agriculture, which does not answer their needs because of the rain,” Halima explains. “People constantly face drought, and that makes people suffer a lot.” Between 2014 and 2016, Mercy Corps’ ECOUT program responded, providing them with millet seeds; cash-for-work to restore farmland; goats; and training on agriculture, nutrition and hygiene. While conditions remain harsh and finding enough food is still a daily struggle, the family is still feeling some of the benefits from that program, particularly the hygiene and sanitation training, through which Halima learned to wash her dishes before cooking, and exclusively breastfeed her children for the first six months of life. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/niger-201810-emillstein-2704.jpg Sargane, Niger OCTOBER 2018 Halima Issoufou, 26, collects water for her family. Halima lives with her husband and three children in a rudimentary mud hut in a rural village outside Niger’s capital city, Niamey. Families here rely heavily on agriculture and nearly everyone lives hand-to-mouth. Halima’s family is no exception, and her daily life is not unlike every other woman’s in her village: from sunrise to sunset she works to care for the household, spending most of her time laboring over the day’s next meal. Every day she cleans the home and dishes, collects water and firewood, and pounds millet to make the family’s porridge, an arduous, lengthy process which she finishes just in time to start again. But all this work isn’t enough, and the family often goes without eating — poverty is rife and they are not able to grow enough food to last them the year. “In this area, people’s lives are based on agriculture, which does not answer their needs because of the rain,” Halima explains. “People constantly face drought, and that makes people suffer a lot.” Between 2014 and 2016, Mercy Corps’ ECOUT program responded, providing them with millet seeds; cash-for-work to restore farmland; goats; and training on agriculture, nutrition and hygiene. While conditions remain harsh and finding enough food is still a daily struggle, the family is still feeling some of the benefits from that program, particularly the hygiene and sanitation training, through which Halima learned to wash her dishes before cooking, and exclusively breastfeed her children for the first six months of life. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/niger-201810-emillstein-3443_1.jpg Sargane, Niger OCTOBER 2018 Halima Issoufou, 26, feeds millet flour gruel to her son Abidoulhaya, 3, outside their rudimentary mud hut in a rural village outside Niger’s capital city, Niamey. Families here rely heavily on agriculture and nearly everyone lives hand-to-mouth. Halima’s family is no exception, and her daily life is not unlike every other woman’s in her village: from sunrise to sunset she works to care for the household, spending most of her time laboring over the day’s next meal. Every day she cleans the home and dishes, collects water and firewood, and pounds millet to make the family’s porridge, an arduous, lengthy process which she finishes just in time to start again. But all this work isn’t enough, and the family often goes without eating — poverty is rife and they are not able to grow enough food to last them the year. “In this area, people’s lives are based on agriculture, which does not answer their needs because of the rain,” Halima explains. “People constantly face drought, and that makes people suffer a lot.” Between 2014 and 2016, Mercy Corps’ ECOUT program responded, providing them with millet seeds; cash-for-work to restore farmland; goats; and training on agriculture, nutrition and hygiene. While conditions remain harsh and finding enough food is still a daily struggle, the family is still feeling some of the benefits from that program, particularly the hygiene and sanitation training, through which Halima learned to wash her dishes before cooking, and exclusively breastfeed her children for the first six months of life. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/niger-201810-emillstein-3716.jpg Halima Issoufou, 26, pounds millet into flour outside her rudimentary mud hut in a rural village outside Niger’s capital city, Niamey. Families here rely heavily on agriculture and nearly everyone lives hand-to-mouth. Halima’s family is no exception, and her daily life is not unlike every other woman’s in her village: from sunrise to sunset she works to care for the household, spending most of her time laboring over the day’s next meal. Every day she cleans the home and dishes, collects water and firewood, and pounds millet to make the family’s porridge, an arduous, lengthy process which she finishes just in time to start again. But all this work isn’t enough, and the family often goes without eating — poverty is rife and they are not able to grow enough food to last them the year. “In this area, people’s lives are based on agriculture, which does not answer their needs because of the rain,” Halima explains. “People constantly face drought, and that makes people suffer a lot.” Between 2014 and 2016, Mercy Corps’ ECOUT program responded, providing them with millet seeds; cash-for-work to restore farmland; goats; and training on agriculture, nutrition and hygiene. While conditions remain harsh and finding enough food is still a daily struggle, the family is still feeling some of the benefits from that program, particularly the hygiene and sanitation training, through which Halima learned to wash her dishes before cooking, and exclusively breastfeed her children for the first six months of life. Halima Issoufou, 26, pounds millet into flour outside her rudimentary mud hut in a rural village outside Niger’s capital city, Niamey. Families here rely heavily on agriculture and nearly everyone lives hand-to-mouth. Halima’s family is no exception, and her daily life is not unlike every other woman’s in her village: from sunrise to sunset she works to care for the household, spending most of her time laboring over the day’s next meal. Every day she cleans the home and dishes, collects water and firewood, and pounds millet to make the family’s porridge, an arduous, lengthy process which she finishes just in time to start again. But all this work isn’t enough, and the family often goes without eating — poverty is rife and they are not able to grow enough food to last them the year. “In this area, people’s lives are based on agriculture, which does not answer their needs because of the rain,” Halima explains. “People constantly face drought, and that makes people suffer a lot.” Between 2014 and 2016, Mercy Corps’ ECOUT program responded, providing them with millet seeds; cash-for-work to restore farmland; goats; and training on agriculture, nutrition and hygiene. While conditions remain harsh and finding enough food is still a daily struggle, the family is still feeling some of the benefits from that program, particularly the hygiene and sanitation training, through which Halima learned to wash her dishes before cooking, and exclusively breastfeed her children for the first six months of life. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/niger-201810-emillstein-4092.jpg Mercy Corps - Africa | ezramillstein.com View Mercy Corps - Africa by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/niger-201810-emillstein-7209.jpg Sargane, Niger. OCTOBER 2018 Hadiara, 35, feeds her goats. She and her family live in a small, rural village 90 minutes outside Niamey where families rely heavily on agriculture and nearly everyone lives hand-to-mouth. Food shortages are chronic here, even more so in recent years as the rains have become increasingly less reliable. Like the other women in her community, Hadiara’s days are made of manual labor: cleaning, collecting water and firewood, farming and pounding millet, with the completion of one meal time bleeding into the preparation for the next. “A woman’s life conditions are a question of a lot of struggling to have food and improve our life,” she says. “We work very hard with poor results, and our life is very difficult.” Between 2014 and 2016, Mercy Corps’ ECOUT program was implemented here, providing Hadiara’s family with seeds; cash-for-work to restore farmland; goats; and training on agriculture, nutrition and hygiene. While conditions remain harsh and hunger is still a daily struggle, the family is still seeing some of the benefits from that program: the goat allowed Hadiara to feed her newborn baby when she couldn’t produce breastmilk, and today the animals are healthy — and pregnant, which will provide her with an emergency source of income. “I am taking care of them myself,” Hadiara says of her goats. “They are very precious to me.” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/niger-201810-emillstein-6642.jpg Baleyara, Niger OCTOBER 2018 Abdoulfataou Ganda, 18, stands next to a well on his farm. “Most of our friends migrate to seek a better life,” Abdoulfataou explains. He has taken over his father’s farm, which earns him enough to be self-reliant and support his family. Like many youth in his community, he is at risk of migrating in search of opportunity, which means their communities are losing talent and skill to other places. But Abdoulfataou participated in Mercy Corps’ financial literacy training, where he learned about budgeting, saving and how to seek microfinance support for business, which helped solidify is believe that a good life is possible at home. “To me, it’s always better to be at your home, that’s where you can naturally be fine,” he says. “Home is home. And I believe that you can make a business and a good living even here, as long as you have something to do.” Driven by poverty, a lack of opportunity, and cultural expectation, many people in Niger migrate to different areas or countries for months or years at a time to earn income and experience life outside their home community. Migration routes have become increasingly dangerous and costly, putting migrants who don’t know their rights at risk of violence or exploitation. However, migration also has the benefit of enabling people to gain skills they would otherwise not, which they can utilize in their home communities if they return and have access to opportunities. Mercy Corps’ AMIPA program works with returning migrants and those at risk of migrating to provide education about the risks, so people can make informed decisions, while also providing financial inclusion and business support for those who have returned or choose to stay, so that they may access livelihoods in their home communities. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/uganda-201711-emillstein-0270.jpg Bidi Bidi, Uganda NOVEMBER 2017 Justice Tumuzbe, 10, fled with his grandparents Paul and Suzanne, from their home in Morobo County, South Sudan. Paul and Suzanne's children stayed back in South Sudan or were killed in the conflict. “When we got here, there was only forest, you can’t imagine to survive, especially these young kids," Paul says. They have benefited from Mercy Corps emergency cash support, receiving six months of payments (38,000 Ugandan shillings each m so that they could supplement their food and start their own small business, a stall in the refugee settlement. Paul is the Education Secretary of the Refugee Community Council. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/uganda-201712-emillstein-4009_1.jpg Bidi Bidi, Uganda DECEMBER 2017 Apate Amina, 37, waits in line at a Mercy Corps cash distribution. She comes from Kimba, in the Central Equatoria region of South Sudan, and arrived in Bidi Bidi in October 2016. Apate takes care of 12 children, 7 of her own and 7 that belonged to her sister who was killed by stray bullets during the recent conflict. She received a payment of 84,0000 Ugandan shillings from Mercy Corps in December, and will receive another payment in March 2018. All of the refugees who received the cash distribution are members of Mercy Corps-supported farmers groups. The objective of the cash distributions are to help them delay the sales of their harvests, so they can sell their produce at higher prices. If they can delay long enough, they don't have to eat or sell their seeds before the next planting season. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/uganda-201711-emillstein-0695_1.jpg Bidi Bidi, Uganda NOVERMBER 2017 287,400 South Sudanese refugees are living in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, which is considered the largest refugee camp in the world. It is situated in the West Nile sub-region of Uganda. More than 2.2 million people have been forced to flee South Sudan and take refuge in neighboring countries including Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. Uganda is now hosting more than 1 million refugees. At the height of the crisis, 1,800 to 2,000 people were arriving at Uganda's borders each day. 80% of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are women and children. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/uganda-201712-emillstein-3795_1.jpg Moyo, Uganda DECEMBER 2017 Bayoa Dominica, 24, and her 7 month-old son Good Lucky Haron stand in a field of white sorghum. Bayou is a member of a Mercy Corps supported farmers group, composed of both host community Ugandans and South Sudanese refugee men and women, who work together for better crop production. South Sudanese refugees are given small plots of land, and Ugandan nationals have larger plots but very few people to work the land. Together they combine their resources and labor. Mercy Corps provided each farmer with a voucher for 20,000 Ugandan shillings, and many of the farmers groups pooled their vouchers together to buy greater quantities of seeds and more products. Mercy Corps also organized a trade fair between the farmers and the agro dealers so that they could spend their vouchers and purchase what they needed. Caroline Mandera is a Ugandan widow with 7 children, and has been part of the group for 3 months. She says "I joined the group because in the group we have savings. I use the money from the group to pay school fees. I also join hands with the farmers to produce some of our products. We pick and then we sell them." Mercy Corps will also be supporting these farmers groups to establish VSLAs (Village Savings and Loans Associations) so that members will be able to begin to save some of the money they earn through the sale of crops. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/uganda-201711-emillstein-1535.jpg Bidi Bidi, Uganda DECEMBER 2017 Christian Modo (3, blue overalls) went with his mother, Doreen Ajio, to a meeting of the Mercy Corps-supported farmers group, in Bidi Bidi Zone 4 village 5. With Mercy Corps' assistance, the farmers have formed a VSLA (Village Savings and Loans Association) so that members will be able to begin to save some of the money they earn through the sale of crops.South Sudanese refugees are given small plots of land, and Ugandan nationals have larger plots but very few people to work the land. Together they combine their resources and labor. Mercy Corps provided each farmer with a voucher for 20,000 Ugandan shillings, and many of the farmers groups pooled their vouchers together to buy greater quantities of seeds and more products. Mercy Corps also organized a trade fair between the farmers and the agro dealers so that they could spend their vouchers and purchase what they needed. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/uganda-201712-emillstein-0633.jpg Bidi Bidi, Uganda DECEMBER 2017 Christian Modo (3, blue overalls) went with his mother, Doreen Ajio, to a meeting of the Mercy Corps-supported farmers group, in Bidi Bidi Zone 4 village 5. With Mercy Corps' assistance, the farmers have formed a VSLA (Village Savings and Loans Association) so that members will be able to begin to save some of the money they earn through the sale of crops.South Sudanese refugees are given small plots of land, and Ugandan nationals have larger plots but very few people to work the land. Together they combine their resources and labor. Mercy Corps provided each farmer with a voucher for 20,000 Ugandan shillings, and many of the farmers groups pooled their vouchers together to buy greater quantities of seeds and more products. Mercy Corps also organized a trade fair between the farmers and the agro dealers so that they could spend their vouchers and purchase what they needed. https://ezramillstein.com/mercy-corps---asia monthly 0.8 https://ezramillstein.com/mercy-corps---latin-america monthly 0.8 https://ezramillstein.com/habitat-for-humanity-international monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/JCWP-11-16952-EM.jpg Léogâne, Haiti NOVEMBER 6, 2011 Former President Jimmy Carter inspects one of the new homes built on the site of the 2011 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-27630-EM.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti NOVEMBER 11, 2010 Samdi Ednan lives in Cité Soleil, an extremely impoverished and densely populated area of Port-au-Prince. Habitat for Humanity is reaching out to his community, in order to help improve housing. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ARME-08-11652-EM.jpg Nshavan, Armenia OCTOBER 8, 2008 Volunteer Gegham Badalyan sands the ceiling of Lyuba Stepanyan's bedroom. Her house is being renovated thanks to Habitat for Humanity Armenia. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ARME-08-11604-EM.jpg Nshavan, Armenia OCTOBER 8, 2008 A bucket of paint in a bedroom in Lyuba Stepanyan's house, which is being renovated thanks to Habitat for Humanity Armenia. As much as 70 percent of the community's housing stock is need of rebuilding or serious renovation, and 30 percent does not meet minimum building standards. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ARME-08-12566-EM.jpg Karakert, Armenia OCTOBER 10, 2008 Norayr Sargsyan inside his family's dilapidated apartment, in a crumbling Soviet-era apartment building. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ARME-08-12884-EM.jpg Armavir, Armenia OCTOBER 10, 2008 Six year-old Diego Manasyan lives with his mother Ellada and his two sisters in this deserted and crumbling Soviet-era building. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ARME-08-12801-EM.jpg Armavir, Armenia OCTOBER 10, 2008 Six year-old Diego Manasyan lives with his mother Ellada and his two sisters in this deserted and crumbling Soviet-era building. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/TAJI-10-12349-EM.jpg Shulonak, Tajikistan MAY 26, 2010 Zaitunbi Mardonova stands on the porch of her family's house, which is being reinforced against earthquakes thanks to a microloan through Habitat for Humanity Tajikistan. The home was damaged by an earthquake during the summer of 2008. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/UGAN-10-30142-EM.jpg Mayuge, Uganda DECEMBER 10, 2010 A child peers through the slats of a church, at a Habitat for HumanityUganda training. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ZAMB-14-17333-EM.jpg Ndola, Zambia AUGUST 4, 2014 Bupe Malisawa, 14, and her mother Anna, 32, live in the Twapia community in Zambia's copper belt. They have lived in their home for two years; it is part of Habitat for Humanity Zambia's Rural, Urban and Peri-Urban Program, which helps to build low-cost houses for the working poor, who are able to repay a no-profit mortgage over five years. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/ZAMB-14-18243-EM.jpg Lusaka, Zambia AUGUST 6, 2014 Taonga Mikasu, 5, washes dishes with her grandmother Anna Lupasha, 56, in the Chazanga community. Anna takes care of three grandchildren. They have lived in their home since 2013; it was built as part of the Orphans and Vulnerable Children program (OVC) at Habitat for Humanity Zambia. HFH Zambia created its OVC housing program in 2005, in order to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that was creating an overwhelming number of orphans. The OVC program focuses on providing appropriate, fully subsidized houses to specifically orphaned and vulnerable children under the age of 18. The project is supported by Irish Aid through Habitat for Humanity Ireland, and is being implemented in Ndola in the Copperbelt Province, and in urban slums around Lusaka. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/CANA-16-13565-EM.jpg Barrhead, Alberta, Canada JUNE 27, 2016 Jashime Sarmiento, 7, plays at the playground behind her family's Habitat home. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/CANA-16-14365-EM.jpg Edmonton, Alberta, Canada JUNE 28, 2016 Siblings Ciera Nadeau (8, red shirt), Parnal Nadeau (6, blue shirt) and Ocean Nadeau (5, blue pants) play on the lawn in front of their family's Habitat home. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/CANA-16-15921-EM.jpg Edmonton, Alberta, Canada JUNE 30, 2016 Nasra Nahar lives in a Habitat home, with her children Hussein Weid (11), Hassan Weid (9) and Jannah Weid (4), pictured here on the family's back porch. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/INDI-15-04900-EM.jpg Kakru, Uttarakhand, India MARCH 3, 2015 Deepika Devi, 11, and her family moved into this new home as part of Habitat for Humanity's response to the devastating floods of 2014. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/INDI-15-04031-EM.jpg Dakhiya, Rajasthan, India MARCH 3, 2015 Geeta Bairwa, 32, and her family worked in partnership with Habitat for Humanity to build a latrine in their compound. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/JCWP-09-30068-EM.jpg Dong Xa, Vietnam NOVEMBER 14, 2009 Rice farmer Dao Van Chuc is helping his 26 year-old son Dao Van Nghia build a Habitat house in Dong Xa fishing village. They worked alongside Habitat volunteers from around the world, who came to build homes as part of the 2009 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/JCWP-09-31946-EM.jpg Hanoi, Vietnam NOVEMBER 18, 2009 Jimmy Carter visited Vietnam for the first time, during the 2009 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/CHIN-13-16942-EM.jpg Panrong, Guangxi, China AUGUST 15, 2013 Feng Jinfeng, 38, hauls stones from a river to help fill the foundation of her family's new house, which is being built with the help of a microcredit loan from Habitat for Humanity China. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/GUAT-11-03849-EMa.jpg Antigua, Guatemala APRIL 24, 2011 An Easter procession passes through the streets of Antigua, in honor of Holy Week in Guatemala. A Habitat for Humanity Build Louder advocacy team was in the country building Habitat homes, meeting with local NGOs and government officials, and learning more about housing issues. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NICA-12-23388-EM.jpg Habitat for Humanity International | ezramillstein.com View Habitat for Humanity International by ezramillstein.com. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/SALV-14-05539-EM.jpg San Salvador, El Salvador APRIL 20, 2014 Volunteer David Treleven, from Raleigh, North Carolina, was part of a volunteer team of AmeriCorps Alumni from across the US that traveled to El Salvador to help build a new Habitat for Humanity home. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NICA-12-21501-EM.jpg Masachapa, Nicaragua DECEMBER 4, 2012 66 year-old Adolfo Gutierrez has been living in this rundown shack in La Gallina for 30 years. Soon he will move into a new home, with the help of Habitat Nicaragua. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NICA-13-30442-EM.jpg San Cayetano, Nicaragua DECEMBER 4, 2013 67 year-old Adolfo Gutierrez lived in a run-down shack in the neighborhood of La Gallina for 30 years, before moving into a Habitat home in 2013. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NICA-12-23147-EM.jpg Masachapa, Nicaragua DECEMBER 10, 2012 A boy stands in front of his family's dilapidated shack. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NICA-12-22248-EM.jpg Masachapa, Nicaragua DECEMBER 5, 2012 A boy watches as Habitat for Humanity volunteers help to paint his family's new Habitat home in the community of La Gallina. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NICA-12-22485-EM.jpg Masachapa, Nicaragua DECEMBER 5, 2012 8 year-old Katia Margarita Cruz watches as a team of Habitat for Humanity volunteers help to build a new home for her family. The team spent 10 days in Nicaragua, building homes and meeting with communities, NGOs and government officials to advocate for decent housing. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/IMG_5452_1.jpg Soacha, Colombia EPTEMBER 23, 2012 Slums cover the mountainsides south of Bogotá. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HOND-09-03944-EM.jpg El Limon, Honduras MAY 12, 2009 Habitat for Humanity Honduras helped to renovate the floors of 82 year-old Catalina Ortiz's house. Most of the Chortí indigenous families of Western Honduras live in extreme poverty. Their subsistence economy keeps them from accessing credit sources, and thus from improving their houses. Their lack of resources forces them to resort to low-quality building materials, meaning that families live in substandard, overcrowded, unhealthy conditions. They are exposed to dust and extreme humidity, and the mud walls of their houses provide ideal living conditions for chinche picuda bugs, which cause Chagas Disease. Habitat for Humanity Honduras is helping to replace the Chorti’s thatched roofs with metal sheeting, to renovate and plaster crumbling walls, and to install concrete floors. With the financial support of the Gaston County Habitat affiliate in North Carolina, 113 houses have been improved, and eight new houses have been built in the villages of Carrizalón, Agua Caliente, Otuta and La Pintada. 847 people have benefited from these projects. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/SALV-10-25356-EM.jpg El Progreso, El Salvador OCTOBER 11, 2010 4 year-old Franklin Rojo stands in his family's smokey kitchen. Habitat for Humanity volunteers helped to build a new kitchen with better air circulation, which will improve thie respiratory health. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HOND-09-03735-EM.jpg Otuta, Honduras MAY 12, 2009 Moreira Dunia inside her mother's house. The floor and roof were renovated with assistance from Habitat for Humanity Honduras. Most of the Chortí indigenous families of Western Honduras live in extreme poverty. Their subsistence economy keeps them from accessing credit sources, and thus from improving their houses. Their lack of resources forces them to resort to low-quality building materials, meaning that families live in substandard, overcrowded, unhealthy conditions. They are exposed to dust and extreme humidity, and the mud walls of their houses provide ideal living conditions for chinche picuda bugs, which cause Chagas Disease. Habitat for Humanity Honduras is helping to replace the Chorti’s thatched roofs with metal sheeting, to renovate and plaster crumbling walls, and to install concrete floors. With the financial support of the Gaston County Habitat affiliate in North Carolina, 113 houses have been improved, and eight new houses have been built in the villages of Carrizalón, Agua Caliente, Otuta and La Pintada. 847 people have benefited from these projects. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/BRAZ-07-17623-EM.jpg Goiania, Brazil DECEMBER 2, 2007 Children walk through the dangerous Favela dos Trihos. Habitat for Humanity Brazil works in more than 21 cities in eight Brazilian states: Ceará, Goiás, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Tocantins, assisting more than 3,000 families. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/BRAZ-07-17290-EM.jpg Varjada, Brazil NOVEMBER 29, 2007 Valdenice de Oliveira sits on the porch of her Habitat home with her seven year-old son Vandeildo. Before Habitat started building concrete houses here in 2006, most homes were made of dried mud, which not only required constant patching and reshaping but also served as a breeding ground for a type of beetle that poses a serious health threat to humans. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/SALV-09-07661-EM.jpg San Vicente, El Salvador MAY 21, 2009 Four year-old Racquel Aparenga plays on a swing in front of her family's Habitat home in the Brisas del Sur community. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/SALV-09-04722-EM-retouch.jpg Santa Ana, El Salvador MAY 20, 2009 Eight month-old Felipe Salazar lives with his parents Jose (pictured) and Aida, in a home in the Charlotte Model Community, which Habitat for Humanity El Salvador started developing in June 2007. The community, which was named to honor Habitat El Salvador's primary affiliate partner in the project, will provide land, housing, basic infrastructure (water, electricity, and sewage treatment), streets with sidewalks, green areas, a daycare and community center to 60 low-income, landless families. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/SALV-09-07604-EM.jpg San Vicente, El Savador MAY 21, 2009 59 year-old Nadia Alfaro lives with her family in a Habitat home in the Brisas del Sur community. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/SALV-09-04247-EM.jpg San Salvador, El Salvador MAY 19, 2009 Elmer Sanchez (right) and his son William (left) inside their family's shack, in the rundown squatter community of Las Victorias on the outskirts of the capital. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/SALV-10-25816-EM.jpg El Progreso, El Salvador OCTOBER 11, 2010 One year-old Catherine Mellssa Vasquez plans on the floor near the door of her family's small home. Habitat volunteers helped to renovate the kitchen, inproving ventilation and ensuring better respiratory health for Catherine and her family. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HOND-09-03286-EM.jpg La Pintada, Honduras MAY 11, 2009 A young boy stands inside his family's dilapidated house. Most of the Chortí indigenous families of Western Honduras live in extreme poverty. Their subsistence economy keeps them from accessing credit sources, and thus from improving their houses. Their lack of resources forces them to resort to low-quality building materials, meaning that families live in substandard, overcrowded, unhealthy conditions. They are exposed to dust and extreme humidity, and the mud walls of their houses provide ideal living conditions for chinche picuda bugs, which cause Chagas Disease. Habitat for Humanity Honduras is helping to replace the Chorti’s thatched roofs with metal sheeting, to renovate and plaster crumbling walls, and to install concrete floors. With the financial support of the Gaston County Habitat affiliate in North Carolina, 113 houses have been improved, and eight new houses have been built in the villages of Carrizalón, Agua Caliente, Otuta and La Pintada. 847 people have benefited from these projects. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/JCWP-09-30106-EM.jpg Dong Xa, Vietnam NOVEMBER 14, 2009 Wheelbarrows are lined up and ready for use in the 2009 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/DOMI-07-03878-EM.jpg Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic AUGUST 29. 2007 A young girl in front of her home in the La Lata neighborhood, on the banks of the Ozama River in Santo Domingo. The area contains more than 200 squatter houses with as many as ten people in each house. Homes are cobbled together with rusted pieces of metal, and have no plumbing. Raw sewage runs through the streets, and the neighborhood frequently floods when the river rises. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/DOMI-07-01669-EM.jpg Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic AUGUST 25, 2007 A girl sleeps in a doorway in the Zona Colonial of Santo Domingo. © Habitat for Humanity International https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/BULG-08-13692-EM.jpg Stara Zagora, Bulgaria OCTOBER 16, 2008 Two infants sleep in a dilapidated home in a Roma community. Habitat for Humanity Bulgaria provides loans to families in the area, enabling them to rehabilitate their apartments. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/SLOV-08-10626-EM.jpg Hodejov, Slovakia OCTOBER 3, 2008 Six year-old Dezika Rac stands next to his father Pater. Their home is in a Roma community in Hodejov; it is being rehabilitated thanks to a loan from Habitat for Humanity Slovakia. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra MIllstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/PHIL-09-16019-EM.jpg Manila, Philippines NOVEMBER 1, 2009 A young boy digs through sewage-filled water, searching for anything salvagable, on the Pasig River in the Paco Market neighborhood of Manila, one of the city's worst slums. The neighborhood was hit particularly hard by the slew of typhoons. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/PHIL-09-16271-EM.jpg Muntinlupa City, Philippines NOVEMBER 3, 2009 Melissa Lancanan screams for attention, as she lies in the floor of the Muntinlupa elementary school, where 357 displaced families live after typhoons destroyed their homes. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/PHIL-09-16233-EM.jpg Muntinlupa City, Philippines NOVEMBER 3, 2009 Angelica Martinez peers through the sheets that separate her family from the neighbors at the Muntinlupa elementary school, where 357 displaced families live after typhoons destroyed their homes. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/PHIL-09-15434-EM.jpg Calauan, Philippines OCTOBER 31, 2009 A boy wades through floodwater next to his house, as Typhoon Mirinae batters the Philippines. Mirinae was the fourth storm to strike the country in a month. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://ezramillstein.com/habitat-for-humanity---usa monthly 0.8 https://ezramillstein.com/nepal-earthquake monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-11933-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 26, 2015 The temples in Durbar Square, the cultural center of Nepal, are in ruins, the morning after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. A series of aftershocks continued to strike fear into residents, who were sleeping outside in streets and parks for fear of collapsing buildings. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-14640-EM.jpg Harisiddhi, Nepal MAY 2, 2015 Residents of Harisiddhi village in the Lalitpur district continue to clean up after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13924-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal MAY 1, 2015 2 year-old Lijeesha Shahi and her family have been sleeping under a tarp on the sidewalk since the earthquake, afraid that their home is structurally unstable. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-12873-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 KATHMANDU, NEPAL (4/27/15)-Collapsed buildings line the streets of Kathmandu, two days after a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-12889-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 KATHMANDU, NEPAL (4/27/15)-A Nepali recovery team prepares to remove a dead body from a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-12959-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 A Nepali recovery team works to remove a dead body from beneath a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. A series of aftershocks continue to strike fear into residents, who are sleeping outside in streets and parks for fear of collapsing buildings. The death toll continues to rise. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13042-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 A Nepali recovery team works to remove a dead body from beneath a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. A series of aftershocks continue to strike fear into residents, who are sleeping outside in streets and parks for fear of collapsing buildings. The death toll continues to rise. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13126-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 A Nepali recovery team cuts away a metal railing, as they attempt to remove a dead body from beneath a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13181-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 A Nepali recovery team works to remove a dead body from beneath a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. A series of aftershocks continue to strike fear into residents, who are sleeping outside in streets and parks for fear of collapsing buildings. The death toll continues to rise. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13212-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 An exhausted soldier takes a break, as his team works to remove a dead body from beneath a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. A series of aftershocks continue to strike fear into residents, who are sleeping outside in streets and parks for fear of collapsing buildings. The death toll continues to rise. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13259-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 A Nepali recovery team works to remove a dead man from beneath a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. A series of aftershocks continue to strike fear into residents, who are sleeping outside in streets and parks for fear of collapsing buildings. The death toll continues to rise. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13347-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 A Nepali recovery team carries a dead body from beneath a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. A series of aftershocks continue to strike fear into residents, who are sleeping outside in streets and parks for fear of collapsing buildings. The death toll continues to rise. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13386-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 A Nepali recovery team removed a dead body from a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13416-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 KATHMANDU, NEPAL (4/27/15)-A Nepali woman identifies the body of her dead cousin, after he was removed from a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13410-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 A Nepali woman identifies the body of her dead cousin, after he was removed from a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13529-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 KATHMANDU, NEPAL (4/27/15)-A woman mourns the death of her sister-in-law, after a recovery team removed her from a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13491-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 Family members transport the body of a Nepali man, after a recovery team removed him from a collapsed building, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13571-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 Bodies are cremated in the Buddhist tradition, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13716-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 Bodies are cremated in the Buddhist tradition, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/NEPA-15-13825-EM.jpg Kathmandu, Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 Family members participate in a Buddhist ceremony before cremating the bodies of a husband and wife, two days after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, and was felt as far as India and Pakistan. A series of aftershocks continued to strike fear into residents, who were sleeping outside in streets and parks for fear of collapsing buildings. The death toll rose to over 8,000. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://ezramillstein.com/haiti-earthquake monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-04226-EM.jpg Cabaret, Haiti FEBRUARY 5, 2010 Eight year-old Jeff Cybaptiste stands in front of his family's Habitat house, which withstood the earthquake of January 12th. It is one of 183 Habitat homes in the area, which were the closest Habitat houses to the epicenter of the earthquake. Initial reports indicate that only eight of these homes sustained damage; by comparison, it is estimated that 8,000 non-Habitat homes were destroyed in the surrounding areas. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-04890-EM.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti FEBRUARY 6, 2010 Three weeks after the January 12th earthquake, the streets of downtown Port-au-Prince are still strewn with debris. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-04682-EM.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti FENRUARY 6, 2010 A young girl watches as a dead body is covered with a sheet, after being discovered decomposing in a pile of rubble three weeks after the January 12th earthquake. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-07101-EM.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti FEBRUARY 15, 2010 A man collects broken pieces of the pews in Haiti's National Cathedral, to use for firewood. The building was destroyed by the January 12th earthquake. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-15162-EM.jpg Léogâne, Haiti JUNE 22, 2010 35 year-old Rose Flore Charles holds her 2 year-old daughter, Guallina Delva. After the earthquake destroyed their family's home, they have been living in a makeshift shelter in Leogane that Rose cobbled together out of scraps. They are moving into a Habitat for Humanity transitional shelter this week. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-05036-EM.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti FEBRUARY 6, 2010 A man burns body parts among the ruins of a collapsed building, three weeks after the January 12th earthquake. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-04575-EM.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti FEBRUARY 6, 2010 Jean Charles Sejour searches the rubble of Haiti's Social Security office for the remains of his coworkers. He was inside when the catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck on January 12th, but ran for the door and managed to escape before the building collapsed. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-06818-EM.jpg Pétionville, Haiti FEBRUARY 12, 2010 A woman participates in a prayer vigil in the center of a tent city in Place St. Pierre, marking one month since the devastating earthquake of January 12th. The Haitian government declared February 12th-15th as days of prayer and fasting, as Haitians remember loved ones who were lost during the disaster. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-06362-EM.jpg Pétionville, Haiti FEBRUARY 12, 2010 A woman participates in a prayer vigil in the center of a tent city in Place St. Pierre, marking one month since the devastating earthquake of January 12th. The Haitian government declared February 12th-15th as days of prayer and fasting, as Haitians remember loved ones who were lost during the disaster. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-27630-EM.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti NOVEMBER 11, 2010 Samdi Ednan lives in Cité Soleil, an extremely impoverished and densely populated area of Port-au-Prince. Habitat for Humanity is reaching out to his community, in order to help improve housing. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-16165-EM.jpg Cap-Haïtien, Haiti JUNE 25, 2010 Puchina Valcin, 5, is the daughter of Annette Charles. Annette, 34, sought refuge in Cap-Haitien after her home in Port-au-Prince was destroyed by the January 12th earthquake. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-04931-EM.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti FEBRUARY 6, 2010 The sun sets behind a collapsed building, three weeks after the devastating earthquake struck Haiti. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-05703-EM.jpg Delmas, Haiti FEBRUARY 7, 2010 A man digs through the ruins of his destroyed house, on a steep hillside near Port-au-Prince. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-06029-EM.jpg Carrefour, Haiti FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Five year-old Jonas Joseph, his eight year-old sister Marie and 12 year-old brother Jeff are silhouetted against the wall of their family's makeshift shelter, in the midst of a tent city that serves as a temporary home for 350 families. The earthquake caused heavy damage to residential buildings in Carrefour; an estimated 80-90% of the buildings were destroyed. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-04857-EM.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti FEBRUARY 6, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (2/6/10)-Seven year-old Wesley Paul stands in front of a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-15664-EM.jpg Gonaives, Haiti MAY 24, 2010 Henry Mackolene is a neighbor and friend of Francesa Saint-Hubert. Francesa, 6, is Sabine Lorema's niece. They live together, along with five other people, in a rental home in Gonaives. Sabine used to live in the Christ-Roi neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Her husband, a bus driver, was killed during the January 12th earthquake when a public utility company building collapsed on top of his bus, while he was parked waiting to pick up riders. Sabine is applying to partner with Habitat to build a core house. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-05817-EM.jpg Carrefour, Haiti FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Two month-old Cherize Streama sleeps soundly in the middle of a raucous tent city of 350 families. Her clavicle was fractured during the January 12th earthquake, which caused heavy damage to residential buildings in Carrefour; an estimated 80-90% of the buildings were destroyed. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-05875-EM.jpg Carrefour, Haiti FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Marie Pierre looks through the door of her makeshift shelter, in a crowded tent city of 350 families. Her right hand and leg were broken during the January 12th earthquake, which caused heavy damage to residential buildings in Carrefour; an estimated 80-90% of the buildings were destroyed. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-15937-EM.jpg Gonaives, Haiti MAY 24, 2010 Rain pours from the roof of a Habitat for Humanity transitional shelter. Habitat is building hundreds of these shelters in several Haitian cities; they last approximately two years. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-05167-EM.jpg Léogâne, Haiti FEBRUARY 7, 2010 Women wait in line for Habitat for Humanity bucket shelter kits, which were assembled by volunteers in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 462 women received the kits, which contained a crowbar, a rope, a tarp, nails, a trowel, a handsaw, a hammer and work gloves. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-05122-EM.jpg Léogâne, Haiti FEBRUARY 7, 2010 Women wait in line for Habitat for Humanity bucket shelter kits, which were assembled by volunteers in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 462 women received the kits, which contained a crowbar, a rope, a tarp, nails, a trowel, a handsaw, a hammer and work gloves. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-04286-EM.jpg Cabaret, Haiti FEBRUARY 5, 2010 Twelve year-old Tediphus Joseph's Habitat house withstood the earthquake of January 12th. It is one of 183 Habitat homes in the area, which were the closest Habitat houses to the epicenter of the earthquake. Initial reports indicate that only eight of these homes sustained damage; by comparison, it is estimated that 8,000 non-Habitat homes were destroyed in the surrounding areas. Nonetheless, Tediphus and his siblings now sleep in a tent in front of their home, because they are scared that another earthquake will come and "shake the house." © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/HAIT-10-05447-EM.jpg Léogâne, Haiti FEBRUARY 7, 2010 A young brother and sister sit inside their family's makeshift shelter. Léogâne was among the worst affected towns by the January 12th earthquake, with an estimated 80% to 90% of buildings damaged and no remaining government infrastructure. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/JCWP-11-16952-EM.jpg Léogâne, Haiti NOVEMBER 6, 2011 Former President Jimmy Carter inspects one of the new homes built on the site of the 2011 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein https://ezramillstein.com/landscapes monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/Untitled1.jpg Petra, Jordan AUGUST 10, 2016 Red rock canyons and starry skies over Petra. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/Petra-3_1.jpg Petra, Jordan AUGUST 10, 2016 Al Khazneh, or the Treasury, was carved out of a sandstone rock face. It is one of the most elaborate temples in Petra, and is otherworldly at night. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/IMG_8891.jpg Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates MARCH 8, 2015 Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque was constructed between 1996 to 2007. It is the largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates, covering an area of more than 12 hectares (30 acres). As the country's grand mosque, it is the key place of worship for Friday gathering and Eid prayers. It can hold more than 40,000 people. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/Riomaggiore_Panorama1_4_copy.jpg Riomaggiore, Italy JULY 28, 2014 Riomaggiore, one of the five towns of the Cinque Terre area of Italy. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/DT3V0172_1.jpg Manarola, Italy JULY 27, 2014 Manarola, one of the five towns of the Cinque Terre area of Italy. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/DT3V9682.jpg Calanque d'En Vau, France JULY 23, 2014 Calanque d'En Vau is part of the Massif des Calanques in the Bouches-du-Rhône département of France. This range extends for 20 km along the coast between Marseille and Cassis. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/DT3V9534.jpg Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain JULY 2014 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/IMG_9675.jpg Chaminuka Reserve, Lusaka, Zambia AUGUST 2, 2014 Zebras run next to the Chaminuka River. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/EzraMillstein_Bantayan.jpg Bantayan Island, Philippines FEBRUARY 22, 2015 A solitary starfish crosses a sand dune in the purple waters off Bantayan Island. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/DT3V9466.jpg San Francisco, California JUNE 28, 2014 Traffic flows over the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco provides families with a springboard to secure, stable futures through affordable homeownership, financial literacy and neighborhood revitalization. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/IMG_2632.jpg Olympic National Park, Washington State MAY 26, 2013 A storm at Rialto Beach. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebf25d986/images/IMG_0012.jpg Olympic National Park, Washington State MAY 26, 2013 A storm at Rialto Beach. https://ezramillstein.com/publications monthly 0.8