One month after Pedernales 7.8 earthquake, in Ecuador's coast, almost 30,000 victims try to find normality for their lives.
Though the Ecuadorian government had implemented 19 official shelters, with the aid of ACNHUR, Red Cross and friendly countries, some have decided to stay on improvised camps.
These towns, mostly inhabited by humble fishermen, will take years to rebuilt, while they turn their hopes on God. On May 16th, moved by the Catholic tradition, requiem masses will take place all over the coastal cities to remember the 660 deaths and 40 missing people
In the Grand Synthe camp in Dunkerque, 3000 Kurdish migrants camp out in the mud.
In the Grand Synthe camp in Dunkerque where 3000 Kurdish migrants camp in the mud, Sabrina Lefebvre looks for hairdressers and barbers among the migrants whose help she can enlist.
Young men watch and wait their turn in the Grand Synthe camp in Dunkerque as Sabrina cuts their friend's hair. A hair stylist for the fashion world, in her free time, she heads to the migrant camps in and around Calais to offer free haircuts to the inhabitants.
Sabrina Lefebvre styles a young woman's hair in a makeshift shelter in the Grand Synthe migrant camp in Dunkerque. She is a hair stylist for the fashion world, but in her free time, she heads to the migrant camps in Calais to offer free haircuts to the inhabitants.
In the Grand Synthe camp in Dunkerque, 3000 Kurdish migrants camp out in the mud.
Young men wait their turn as Sabrina Lefebvre and two of her apprentices from the camp cut hair in the Grand Synthe camp in Dunkerque.
Young men wait their turn as Sabrina Lefebvre and two of her apprentices from the camp cut hair in the Grand Synthe camp in Dunkerque.
Sabrina Lefebvre shares a meal with migrants during a break from cutting and styling. A hair stylist for the fashion world, in her free time Sabrina heads to the migrant camps in Calais to offer free haircuts to the inhabitants.
In the Grand Synthe camp in Dunkerque, 3000 Kurdish migrants camp out in the mud.
Sabrina Lefebvre is a hair stylist for the fashion world, but in her free time, she heads to the migrant camps in Calais to offer free haircuts to the inhabitants.
Sabrina Lefebvre arrives at Calais Station from London. Sabrina is a hair stylist for the fashion world, but in her free time, she heads to the migrant camps in Calais to offer free haircuts to the inhabitants.
Sabrina looks through the warehouse of the Auberge des Migrants for chairs she can use for her pop-up salon. Sabrina is a hair stylist for the fashion world, but in her free time, she heads to the migrant camps in Calais to offer free haircuts to the inhabitants.
Sabrina Lefebvre is a hair stylist for the fashion world, but in her free time, she heads to the migrant camps in Calais to offer free haircuts to the inhabitants.
Sabrina gives a haircut to a young man in the Calais camp. She works for free and often late into the night, giving haircuts to anyone who needs a trim or some styling.
Sabrina gives a haircut to a young man in the Calais camp. She works for free and often late into the night, giving haircuts to anyone who needs a trim or some styling.
Sabrina styles a young migrant man's hair in the recreational structure built by volunteers in the Calais migrant camp.
Sabrina styles a young migrant man's hair in the recreational structure built by volunteers in the Calais migrant camp.
In Paris, Sabrina styles hair for French designer Alexandre Vauthier's fashion show.
In Paris, Sabrina styles hair for French designer Alexandre Vauthier's fashion show.
In Paris, Sabrina styles hair for French designer Alexandre Vauthier's fashion show.
In Paris, Sabrina styles hair for French designer Alexandre Vauthier's fashion show.
In Paris, Sabrina styles hair for French designer Alexandre Vauthier's fashion show.
In Paris, Sabrina styles hair for French designer Alexandre Vauthier's fashion show.
In Paris, Sabrina styles hair for French designer Alexandre Vauthier's fashion show.
In Paris, Sabrina styles hair for French designer Alexandre Vauthier's fashion show.
A collection of pictures that shows many faces of Somali people, and how religion and culture affects them in their daily life.
Sun, sand and patience abound for natives of the Western Sahara, many of whom have survived the last 38 years in the Algerian hamada thanks to international aid. In 1976, the independence movement, the Polisario Front, proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (RASD) in what is today called the Western Sahara just as Spain, the former colonial power, withdrew from the territory. This land has since been the subject of dispute between Mauritania and Morocco, the country which occupies almost all of it to date.
On 12 January 2007, Nicaragua joined the African Union and the 45 world nations which recognise the sovereignty of RASD. No European country either recognises the RASD as a sovereign entity, or the annexation carried out by Morocco. Meanwhile, 260,000 inhabitants of the Western Sahara are currently living in an effective no-man’s land claimed by Morocco. There, local institutions have no power and are not given any public assistance.
Neighbouring Algeria, a firm defender of Western Saharan independence, provides refuge to 160,000 Sahrawis in the desert surrounding the Algerian province of Tindouf. Isolated from the rest of the world, they depend on what the European NGO lorries take from the port of Oran to the south of the country. Here, a generation raised abroad is beginning to question how long it will be before a referendum is held. Many of these young men do not rule out returning to arms.
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A Sahrawi woman looks through the gate of the 27th of February camp in Tindouf, Algeria.
A woman walks through poat pens at the February 27th refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria.
Two woman cook a family meal at a Sahrawi refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria.
A man works at a construction site at sunset in Tindouf, Algeria.
A woman prepares tea at the 27th of February camp, in Tindouf, Algeria.
A woman prays at the Auserd refugee camp Tindouf, Algeria.
A young man walks through the graveyard in the Esmara camp, Tindouf, Algeria.
A man stands in front of his small shop in Esmara refugee camp, Tindouf, Algeria.
A child plays near an acacia tree at Dajla camp, Tindouf, Algeria.
Sahrawi men in a Land Rover in El Aaiún camp, Tindouf, Algeria.
Landscape near Tifariti in the Western Sahara, currently claimed as part of the 'buffer zone' by Morocco.
Families from the refugee camps meet with other families from what they consider occupied territories in the Esmara camp in Tindouf, Algeria.