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  • School children in Sunam Village, Himachal Pradesh, India
    School Children, Sunam Village
  • On a bend in the meandering Kwethluk River, not far off the Bering Sea, five abandoned buildings rise above the alders. <br />
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The Moravian Children's Home opened in 1926, three miles upriver from the village of Kwethluk, Alaska. Moravian missionaries founded the facility in an effort to provide care and education for children, most of whom were Alaska native and orphaned by epidemics which ravaged area villages.<br />
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The facility was closed hastily due to a tuberculosis outbreak among the residents.<br />
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Many of the children who lived at the orphanage are now elders living in communities throughout the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.<br />
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Nunapitsinghak is the Yup'ik name of the original property on which the home was built, it means "great, little land".
    Abandoned Church
  • Nomad children's shoes on Ladakh's Changtang plateau
    Baby Shoes
  • ​On a bend in the meandering Kwethluk River, not far off the Bering Sea, five abandoned buildings rise above the alders. <br />
<br />
The Moravian Children's Home opened in 1926, three miles upriver from the village of Kwethluk, Alaska. Moravian missionaries founded the facility in an effort to provide care and education for children, most of whom were Alaska native and orphaned by epidemics which ravaged area villages.<br />
<br />
The facility was closed hastily due to a tuberculosis outbreak among the residents.<br />
<br />
Many of the children who lived at the orphanage are now elders living in communities throughout the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.<br />
<br />
 <br />
Nunapitsinghak is the Yup'ik name of the original property on which the home was built, it means "great, little land".
    Abandoned Children's Home
  • Children play on a mound of snow in a remote village in the Alaskan interior.
    Children at play
  • I saw these kids wandering through the gullies, or alleyways, on the way towards their home in Varanasi.  I began following them and wanted to capture the essence of their bare feet and mud stained clothes along the stone pathways.
    Three children make their way throug..ndia
  • Kids hanging out at the village temple on the Bolaven Plateau, Laos
    Kids at the village temple, Bolaven ..teau
  • Children outside a home in the Tigri Slum, Delhi, India
    Tigri Slum, Delhi
  • Christina, a young Nenets girl, inside the family chum watching a DVD on a laptop computer.
    Christina, a Nenets Girl
  • Kids on the Bolaven Plateau
    Kids, Bolaven Plateau
  • A Tibetan child plays with a kid inside the family tent near Tso Kar lake, Ladakh
    Tibetan Child with Kid
  • Jamima Kumar, from Madanpur Kumar neighborhood in New Delhi, India, brushes her teeth as she prepares for the school day at the Good Samaritan School.
    Jamima brushes her teeth as she prep..ool.
  • On a bend in the meandering Kwethluk River, not far off the Bering Sea, five abandoned buildings rise above the alders. <br />
<br />
The Moravian Children's Home opened in 1926, three miles upriver from the village of Kwethluk, Alaska. Moravian missionaries founded the facility in an effort to provide care and education for children, most of whom were Alaska native and orphaned by epidemics which ravaged area villages.<br />
<br />
The facility was closed hastily due to a tuberculosis outbreak among the residents.<br />
<br />
Many of the children who lived at the orphanage are now elders living in communities throughout the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.<br />
<br />
Nunapitsinghak is the Yup'ik name of the original property on which the home was built, it means "great, little land".
    Old Moravian Church
  • In Ladakh most families will send one of their children to the monastery to live out their life. Their is an intricate relationship between the monastic life and the local communities. Monks perform monthly pujas during the full moon and perform rights of marriage and burial.
    Monk, Thiksey monastery.
  • Children on Ladakh's Changtang plateau
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