Nangarhar, AfghanistanA young girl attends one of the thousands of community based schools, supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund to make formal education accessible to children.UN Photo/Roger Lemoyne
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Nangarhar, Afghanistan

A young girl attends one of the thousands of community based schools, supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund to make formal education accessible to children.

UN Photo/Roger Lemoyne

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MoroccoMost countries are now facing the challenge of how to support and care for a larger proportion of elderly among their populations. An elderly woman in Khemisset Province of Morocco.UN Photo/John Isaac
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Morocco

Most countries are now facing the challenge of how to support and care for a larger proportion of elderly among their populations.
An elderly woman in Khemisset Province of Morocco.

UN Photo/John Isaac

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AfghanistanMaslakh (Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs) Camp is named after a once thriving business (Maslakh translates as slaughterhouse). Situated near the western Afghan city of Herat, it is home to more than 350,000 displaced Afghans according to the official count from the time of Taliban rule. However, international aid organizations conducting a survey of the camp estimate that there may be only around 150,000 inhabitants, but it is certainly the largest such camp inside Afghanistan and among the largest in the world. A new count to determine the exact number of inhabitants is underway to better determine humanitarian needs. A vast camp of mud huts and tents under the Afghan mountains, Maslakh’s temperature plunges below zero at night. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the coordinating agency for humanitarian aid to displaced people in western Afghanistan. World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF are delivering food, blankets, clothing, stoves, and other items to Maslakh’s desperately poor population.A young resident of Maslakh Camp takes a drink of water.UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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Afghanistan

Maslakh (Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs) Camp is named after a once thriving business (Maslakh translates as slaughterhouse). Situated near the western Afghan city of Herat, it is home to more than 350,000 displaced Afghans according to the official count from the time of Taliban rule.
However, international aid organizations conducting a survey of the camp estimate that there may be only around 150,000 inhabitants, but it is certainly the largest such camp inside Afghanistan and among the largest in the world. A new count to determine the exact number of inhabitants is underway to better determine humanitarian needs. A vast camp of mud huts and tents under the Afghan mountains, Maslakh’s temperature plunges below zero at night. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the coordinating agency for humanitarian aid to displaced people in western Afghanistan. World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF are delivering food, blankets, clothing, stoves, and other items to Maslakh’s desperately poor population.
A young resident of Maslakh Camp takes a drink of water.

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

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Bagram, AfghanistanBoys playing with toy guns run into a village alley.UN Photo/Eric KanalsteinI took a photo similar to this once. I find it incredibly ironic and sad the way that children - whether in peaceful, previously war ridden countries, or countries at war - play war. Why? Why is it that they find playing war of all things, fun? This is why I take it upon myself to stop them. Have them play with kittens or something …  
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Bagram, Afghanistan

Boys playing with toy guns run into a village alley.

UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein

I took a photo similar to this once. I find it incredibly ironic and sad the way that children - whether in peaceful, previously war ridden countries, or countries at war - play war. Why? Why is it that they find playing war of all things, fun? 

This is why I take it upon myself to stop them. Have them play with kittens or something …  

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BangladeshA child in Dhaka’s Karial slum, Bangladesh. One billion people, or roughly one out of three urban dwellers, live in slum conditions. UN Photo/Kibae Park.
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Bangladesh

A child in Dhaka’s Karial slum, Bangladesh. One billion people, or roughly one out of three urban dwellers, live in slum conditions.

UN Photo/Kibae Park.

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