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Wilson

Ezio Gianni Murzi

Italy

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The HIV/AIDS pandemic is ravaging Mozambique. In 2018, I went back to Chokwe.  I used my camera to document changes. While the Rural Hospital was the same, another separate structure had been added to exclusively treat HIV/AIDS and TB.  Desiite odds life continue as children are skilfully delivered.

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Honorable Mention

Nominee

Silver

An Emotional Return to Mozambique

The Greek Christian Orthodox community of Istanbul, or more specifically, the Greeks, or Rumlars, have their schools. Once prestigious Greek or Rumlars’ schools and lyceums continue to teach Greek and in Greek to some 100 pupils down from more than a 1000/1500 of the past.

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Students at the Greek Lyceum Istanbul

A century old practice that to move sheep from one pasture to another. Some have to be trucked, majority is moved on foot for at times long distances

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Transumanza

Anxious motherly gaze, Carmelo Hospital, Chokwe, Mozambique

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Bronze

People’s Vote Award

HIV/AIDS infected mother and child

Anna Maria Mattei is the part owner and manager of the newly reopened restaurant La Pacchiona in Barbarano Romano, Italy  Here she is mending one window frame of the restaurant  in the carpentry shop of her uncle Mario Pagliucchi.

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Anna

The HIV and AIDS pandemic has had profound societal  changes in Mozambique where grandmothers had to care for their orphaned grandchildren.  The Carmelo Hospital in Chokwe helped by building a house while providing medical treatment and cash

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The Grandmother

Marta harvesting olives in Barbarano Romano, Italy

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Harvester's Solitude

The strategy involves building decent but simple housing for families affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Wilson inside the house where he lives with his mother and four other aiblings

Clara raised her grandchildren who had been orphaned by the parents demise because of HIV/AIDS. Here Clara is photographed in front of her newly build house with assistance from the Daughters of St Vincent de Paul