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Lenten stories
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Five years ago, Teopista’s family lived with
many hardships. Although she and her
husband Fred worked hard to provide
for their seven children, she recalls: “My
family ate one meal a day. Sometimes
we went without food when we had no
money and nothing to cook.”. |
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Prabha lives in Silma, one of India’s
poorest tribal areas in the remote north
of Chhattisgarh state. She lives in a one
room mud-baked house with her husband,
10 and 4 year old daughters Rajanti and
Sunita and 6 year old son Samil. |
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Two years ago Junior Robinson Sorosu
was in danger of becoming one of Port Moresby’s infamous ‘raskols’.
With nothing to do after finishing school
in Year 10, Junior became a ‘street boy’,
roaming around with a gang of other boys. |
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For three weeks each month Ipau, 29,
teaches children in Juhu village in South Kalimantan. Every fourth week she walks
six hours to her balai (traditional Indigenous
community unit) to work as a ‘rubber
tapper’ as part of their income generation
project. |
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Alwyn “Bluey” Kalion, 18, lives with his
family in one of Australia’s most isolated
desert communities, Wirrimanu (Balgo) in
the East Kimberley. The day
to day difficulties of living in such a
remote region, coupled with a lack of
job opportunities and services created
real challenges for Bluey and many of his
friends. |
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Ten-year-old Maria Gaby is an active
member of the Pujllay Project, involving 30 communities from
the mountainous Andes and tropical
regions towards the Amazon basin. The
project aims to address food insecurity and
malnutrition, the loss of the local identity
from the migration of adults in search of
work and the subsequent threats to the
rights of children. |
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