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Cleaning Up the Environment and Rescuing a Rare Mammal - A UNDP Photo Essay Contest, November 2009

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  • Photo #1
    Photo 1 of 13
    Credit: Faiza Hajji Wozniak, Morocco
    Photographs from three winning photo essays in an Africa-wide United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) contest covering people working to mitigate or prevent the effects of climate change.

    First Photo: Faiza Hajji Wozniak's winning photo essay covers a fair trade project which she launched in her home town in Morocco. It begins by showing discarded plastic bags.
  • Photo #2
    Photo 2 of 13
    Credit: Faiza Hajji Wozniak, Morocco
    Seeing the bags, a group of women decide to act.
  • Photo #3
    Photo 3 of 13
    Credit: Faiza Hajji Wozniak, Morocco
    They collect the bags and a local grass called alfa.
  • Photo #4
    Photo 4 of 13
    Credit: Faiza Hajji Wozniak, Morocco
    They make baskets, bags and other products for international sale.
  • Photo #5
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    Credit: Faiza Hajji Wozniak
    The project is organized by Ifassen, a fair trade company.
  • Photo #6
    Photo 6 of 13
    Credit: Ali Barisa, Kenya
    Ali Barisa, 12, of Kenya won second place with a photo essay documenting kids participating in a slum neighborhood clean-up project.

    In this photo, volunteers participate in a clean-up of the neighbourhood in Mathare, Kenya.
  • Photo #7
    Photo 7 of 13
    Credit: Ali Barisa, Kenya
    The clean up is organized weekly in 16 zones by the Mathare Youth Sports Association.
  • Photo #8
    Photo 8 of 13
    Credit: Ali Barisa, Kenya
    Volunteers collect garbage, open drainage and plant trees on public land and in schools.
  • Photo #9
    Photo 9 of 13
    Credit: Ali Barisa, Kenya
    About 20,000 youths participate in this programme linking sports and service.
  • Photo #10
    Photo 10 of 13
    Credit: Djibril Sy, Senegal
    Djibril Sy is a Senegalese photojournalist who documented the rescue by fishermen of a West African manatee stranded in a pond of the Senegal River during the dry season.
  • Photo #11
    Photo 11 of 13
    Credit: Djibril Sy, Senegal
    Villagers organize a committee for emergency operations to save the mammal.
  • Photo #12
    Photo 12 of 13
    Credit: Djibril Sy, Senegal
    They sprinkle water on the manatee to keep it hydrated in the heat.
  • Photo #13
    Photo 13 of 13
    Credit: Djibril Sy, Senegal
    Celebrity designer Oumou Sy celebrates the manatee's return to deeper waters.

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  • Climate
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