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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team cleans the face of a boy who died after being hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. Medics worked on the child for nearly 30 minutes and were not able to revive him. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: With the child's mother watching (on the right), a Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 19 FEBRUARY 2008 -- SANGKLABURI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND:  WAWA, a Burmese refugee, and her daughter at Baan Unrak Children's Home in Sangklaburi, Thailand. Baan Unrak children’s home and school, established in 1991 in Sangklaburi, Thailand, gives destitute children and mothers a home and career training for a better future. Baan Unrak, the “Home of Joy,” provides basic needs to well over 100 children, and  abandoned mothers. The home is funded by donations and the proceeds from the weaving and sewing shops at the home. The home is a few kilometers from the Burmese border. All of the women and children at the home are refugees from political violence and extreme poverty in Burma, most are Karen hill tribe people, the others are Mon hill tribe people. The home was started in 1991 when Didi Devamala went to Sangklaburi to start an agricultural project. An abandoned wife asked Devmala to help her take care of her child. Devmala took the child in and soon other Burmese women approached her looking for help.    Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 19 FEBRUARY 2008 -- SANGKLABURI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: Toddlers sleep in the nursery at Baan Unrak Children's Home in Sangklaburi, Thailand. Baan Unrak children’s home and school, established in 1991 in Sangklaburi, Thailand, gives destitute children and mothers a home and career training for a better future. Baan Unrak, the “Home of Joy,” provides basic needs to well over 100 children, and  abandoned mothers. The home is funded by donations and the proceeds from the weaving and sewing shops at the home. The home is a few kilometers from the Burmese border. All of the women and children at the home are refugees from political violence and extreme poverty in Burma, most are Karen hill tribe people, the others are Mon hill tribe people. The home was started in 1991 when Didi Devamala went to Sangklaburi to start an agricultural project. An abandoned wife asked Devmala to help her take care of her child. Devmala took the child in and soon other Burmese women approached her looking for help.    Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 19 FEBRUARY 2008 -- SANGKLABURI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: Toddlers sleep in the nursery at Baan Unrak Children's Home in Sangklaburi, Thailand. Baan Unrak children’s home and school, established in 1991 in Sangklaburi, Thailand, gives destitute children and mothers a home and career training for a better future. Baan Unrak, the “Home of Joy,” provides basic needs to well over 100 children, and  abandoned mothers. The home is funded by donations and the proceeds from the weaving and sewing shops at the home. The home is a few kilometers from the Burmese border. All of the women and children at the home are refugees from political violence and extreme poverty in Burma, most are Karen hill tribe people, the others are Mon hill tribe people. The home was started in 1991 when Didi Devamala went to Sangklaburi to start an agricultural project. An abandoned wife asked Devmala to help her take care of her child. Devmala took the child in and soon other Burmese women approached her looking for help.    Photo by Jack Kurtz
    ThaiBurmaBorderBaanUnrak055.jpg
  • 27 FEBRUARY 2015 - PONHEA LEU, KANDAL, CAMBODIA:   A child cuts rice by hand with a scythe in her family's paddies during the rice harvest in Kandal province, Cambodia. Kandal province is an agricultural province north of Phnom Penh.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 24 APRIL 2013 - SAMUT SONGKHRAM, SAMUT SONGKHRAM, THAILAND:    A child who works in the salt fields around Samut Songkhram, Thailand, waits for his work assignment during the 2013 salt harvest. The 2013 salt harvest in Thailand and Cambodia has been impacted by unseasonably heavy rains. Normally, the salt fields are prepped for in December, January and February, when they're leveled and flooded with sea water. Salt is harvested from the fields from late February through May, as the water evaporates leaving salt behind. This year rains in December and January limited access to the fields and rain again in March and April has reduced the amount of salt available in the fields. Thai salt farmers are finishing the harvest as best they can, but the harvest in neighboring Cambodia ended 6 weeks early because of rain. Salt has traditionally been harvested in tidal basins along the coast southwest of Bangkok but industrial development in the area has reduced the amount of land available for commercial salt production and now salt is mainly harvested in a small part of Samut Songkhram province.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The backyard of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with firs
    AmeDealHouse014.jpg
  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The backyard of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with firs
    AmeDealHouse013.jpg
  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: An aluminum flower in front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were ch
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  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: Teddy Bears and flowers on the fence in front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that n
    AmeDealHouse008.jpg
  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: Teddy Bears and flowers on the fence in front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that n
    AmeDealHouse005.jpg
  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with first-d
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  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with first-d
    AmeDealHouse003.jpg
  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with first-d
    AmeDealHouse002.jpg
  • 24 APRIL 2013 - SAMUT SONGKHRAM, SAMUT SONGKHRAM, THAILAND:    A child pushes a wheelbarrow of salt to an area where it will be bagged and weighed for sale. The 2013 salt harvest in Thailand and Cambodia has been impacted by unseasonably heavy rains. Normally, the salt fields are prepped for in December, January and February, when they're leveled and flooded with sea water. Salt is harvested from the fields from late February through May, as the water evaporates leaving salt behind. This year rains in December and January limited access to the fields and rain again in March and April has reduced the amount of salt available in the fields. Thai salt farmers are finishing the harvest as best they can, but the harvest in neighboring Cambodia ended 6 weeks early because of rain. Salt has traditionally been harvested in tidal basins along the coast southwest of Bangkok but industrial development in the area has reduced the amount of land available for commercial salt production and now salt is mainly harvested in a small part of Samut Songkhram province.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 24 APRIL 2013 - SAMUT SONGKHRAM, SAMUT SONGKHRAM, THAILAND:    A child pushes a wheelbarrow of salt to an area where it will be bagged and weighed for sale. The 2013 salt harvest in Thailand and Cambodia has been impacted by unseasonably heavy rains. Normally, the salt fields are prepped for in December, January and February, when they're leveled and flooded with sea water. Salt is harvested from the fields from late February through May, as the water evaporates leaving salt behind. This year rains in December and January limited access to the fields and rain again in March and April has reduced the amount of salt available in the fields. Thai salt farmers are finishing the harvest as best they can, but the harvest in neighboring Cambodia ended 6 weeks early because of rain. Salt has traditionally been harvested in tidal basins along the coast southwest of Bangkok but industrial development in the area has reduced the amount of land available for commercial salt production and now salt is mainly harvested in a small part of Samut Songkhram province.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    ThaiSaltHarvest055.jpg
  • 24 APRIL 2013 - SAMUT SONGKHRAM, SAMUT SONGKHRAM, THAILAND:    A child pushes a wheelbarrow of salt to an area where it will be bagged and weighed for sale. The 2013 salt harvest in Thailand and Cambodia has been impacted by unseasonably heavy rains. Normally, the salt fields are prepped for in December, January and February, when they're leveled and flooded with sea water. Salt is harvested from the fields from late February through May, as the water evaporates leaving salt behind. This year rains in December and January limited access to the fields and rain again in March and April has reduced the amount of salt available in the fields. Thai salt farmers are finishing the harvest as best they can, but the harvest in neighboring Cambodia ended 6 weeks early because of rain. Salt has traditionally been harvested in tidal basins along the coast southwest of Bangkok but industrial development in the area has reduced the amount of land available for commercial salt production and now salt is mainly harvested in a small part of Samut Songkhram province.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    ThaiSaltHarvest054.jpg
  • 24 APRIL 2013 - SAMUT SONGKHRAM, SAMUT SONGKHRAM, THAILAND:    A child pushes a wheelbarrow of salt to an area where it will be bagged and weighed for sale. The 2013 salt harvest in Thailand and Cambodia has been impacted by unseasonably heavy rains. Normally, the salt fields are prepped for in December, January and February, when they're leveled and flooded with sea water. Salt is harvested from the fields from late February through May, as the water evaporates leaving salt behind. This year rains in December and January limited access to the fields and rain again in March and April has reduced the amount of salt available in the fields. Thai salt farmers are finishing the harvest as best they can, but the harvest in neighboring Cambodia ended 6 weeks early because of rain. Salt has traditionally been harvested in tidal basins along the coast southwest of Bangkok but industrial development in the area has reduced the amount of land available for commercial salt production and now salt is mainly harvested in a small part of Samut Songkhram province.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    ThaiSaltHarvest053.jpg
  • 24 APRIL 2013 - SAMUT SONGKHRAM, SAMUT SONGKHRAM, THAILAND:   A child who works in the salt fields around Samut Songkhram, Thailand, waits for his work assignment during the 2013 salt harvest. The 2013 salt harvest in Thailand and Cambodia has been impacted by unseasonably heavy rains. Normally, the salt fields are prepped for in December, January and February, when they're leveled and flooded with sea water. Salt is harvested from the fields from late February through May, as the water evaporates leaving salt behind. This year rains in December and January limited access to the fields and rain again in March and April has reduced the amount of salt available in the fields. Thai salt farmers are finishing the harvest as best they can, but the harvest in neighboring Cambodia ended 6 weeks early because of rain. Salt has traditionally been harvested in tidal basins along the coast southwest of Bangkok but industrial development in the area has reduced the amount of land available for commercial salt production and now salt is mainly harvested in a small part of Samut Songkhram province.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    ThaiSaltHarvest042.jpg
  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The backyard of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with firs
    AmeDealHouse017.jpg
  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The backyard of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with firs
    AmeDealHouse016.jpg
  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The backyard of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with firs
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  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The backyard of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with firs
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  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with first-d
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  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: Teddy Bears and flowers on the fence in front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that n
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  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: Teddy Bears and flowers on the fence in front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that n
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  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: Teddy Bears and flowers on the fence in front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that n
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  • 15 AUGUST 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The front of the home that Ame Deal, a 10 year old girl allegedly murdered by her family when she was locked in a footlocker, lived in in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the death of the 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a box on July 1, 2011. Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story. During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame Lynn Deal and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the storage box to hide and had accidentally suffocated. According to Sgt. Trent Crump with the Phoenix Police Department, investigators determined that Ame was forced into the footlocker-type box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator. The box was padlocked and Ame was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road. She was found dead the following morning. Crump said Ame was forced to do backbends for several hours prior to dragging the chest inside the house herself. He described the box as 31.5 inches in length, 14 inches wide and 12.25 inches deep. At the time of her death, Ame was 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 60 pounds. Ame's family members regularly locked her in the box as discipline for poor behavior, according to Crump. There were allegations that she was fed hot sauce, deprived of food and beaten with a board over the past few months. He said when Ame wouldn't pick up dog feces, it was rubbed on her and she was forced to eat it. "This child died at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for her... this case has turned the stomachs of some of our most seasoned detectives," Crump said. John Allen and his wife, Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were left in charge of Ame that night. They were charged with first-d
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  • 26 FEBRUARY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai child sword fights, using a balloon, with anime characters in a Bangkok shopping mall.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 AUGUST 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: A child rides a bike through a splash pad in Evelyn K. Davis Park in Des Moines.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 OCTOBER 2015 - TWANTE, MYANMAR: A child with Burmese "thanaka powder" on his face in the potters' village in Twante, (also spelled Twantay) Myanmar. Twante, about 20 miles from Yangon, is best known for its traditional pottery. The pottery makers are struggling to keep workers in their sheds though. As Myanmar opens up to outside investments and its economy expands, young people are moving to Yangon to take jobs in the better paying tourist industry or in the factories that are springing up around Yangon.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 23 MARCH 2013 - NAKHON CHAI SI, NAKHON PATHOM, THAILAND:  A child sleeps in a common area before the tattoo festival at Wat Bang Phra. Wat Bang Phra is the best known "Sak Yant" tattoo temple in Thailand. It's located in Nakhon Pathom province, about 40 miles from Bangkok. The tattoos are given with hollow stainless steel needles and are thought to possess magical powers of protection. The tattoos, which are given by Buddhist monks, are popular with soldiers, policeman and gangsters, people who generally live in harm's way. The tattoo must be activated to remain powerful and the annual Wai Khru Ceremony (tattoo festival) at the temple draws thousands of devotees who come to the temple to activate or renew the tattoos. People go into trance like states and then assume the personality of their tattoo, so people with tiger tattoos assume the personality of a tiger, people with monkey tattoos take on the personality of a monkey and so on. In recent years the tattoo festival has become popular with tourists who make the trip to Nakorn Pathom province to see a side of "exotic" Thailand. The 2013 tattoo festival was on March 23.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MARCH 2013 - VANG VIENG, LAOS: A woman and her child in the market in Vang Vieng, Laos.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Medics and nurses from the Ruamkatanya Foundation on the scene of a fatal accident involving a child near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A medic from the Ruamkatanya Foundation waves a piece of paper as a fan at the scene of a fatal accident involving a child in the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A passerby uses a smart phone to photograph a Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team trying to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 15 AUGUST 2009 -- GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK: A child in the ice cream shop in Bright Angel Lodge on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JUNE 2009 -- PHOENIX, AZ: A child with a sign during a march at the Arizona state capitol Saturday. Arizona has the second worst state budget deficit in the country (only California's is worst) and the Republican controlled legislature is threatening to balance the budget by making massive cuts in social and education spending while cutting taxes. Small numbers of public school teachers and parents of public school students have been marching on the capitol almost every day of the week but Saturday's march, with well over 500 people was the largest of session. The legislature and Gov. Jan Brewer, also a Republican, are deadlocked in negotiations and the Governor has threatened to shut down state government on July 1 if there is no budget. Republican leaders in the legislature are threatening to present the Governor with a budget, without input from the Governor's office, at midnight on June 30, forcing her to sign the budget to keep the state open.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 27 JUNE 2009 -- PHOENIX, AZ: A child with a sign during a march at the Arizona state capitol Saturday. Arizona has the second worst state budget deficit in the country (only California's is worst) and the Republican controlled legislature is threatening to balance the budget by making massive cuts in social and education spending while cutting taxes. Small numbers of public school teachers and parents of public school students have been marching on the capitol almost every day of the week but Saturday's march, with well over 500 people was the largest of session. The legislature and Gov. Jan Brewer, also a Republican, are deadlocked in negotiations and the Governor has threatened to shut down state government on July 1 if there is no budget. Republican leaders in the legislature are threatening to present the Governor with a budget, without input from the Governor's office, at midnight on June 30, forcing her to sign the budget to keep the state open.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • Apr. 15, 2009 -- PHOENIX, AZ: A child during the "Tea Party" at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix Wednesday. Nearly 10,000 people attended the rally, which was supposed to be in opposition to the Obama economic plan but turned into a general anti-Obama rally.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • Apr. 15, 2009 -- PHOENIX, AZ: A child holds up a sign during the "Tea Party" at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix Wednesday. Nearly 10,000 people attended the rally, which was supposed to be in opposition to the Obama economic plan but turned into a general anti-Obama rally.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: Defused landmines on a tree in Aki Ra's compound in Siem Reap. Aki Ra, a former child soldier in the Khmer Rouge, now defuses the mines he planted during the wars the wracked Cambodia. Nearly 30 years after the Khmer Rouge Cambodia is still awash in landmines. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A woman and her child in the guest house (small hotel) they own in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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  • 28 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A woman and her child in the guest house (small hotel) they own in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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  • 26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: DR. JEFFREY CONNELL, a US citizen, examines HOOT NAK, 19, in Connell's home / clinic at the Land Mine Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Connell said he has worked as a volunteer doctor in disadvantaged communities in Poland, Belgium, France, Thailand and now Cambodia. Aki Ra was a child soldier drafted by first the Khmer Rouge and later the Vietnamese army. One of his responsibilities was to plant land mines for both sides. After peace came to Cambodia he started his own demining operation. He has been clearing landmines in Cambodia since 1990. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. In addition to the demining operation, Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 kids maimed by mines. In addition to demining operations Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 children maimed by mines.   Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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  • 26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: DR. JEFFREY CONNELL, a US citizen, examines HOOT NAK, 19, in Connell's home / clinic at the Land Mine Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Connell said he has worked as a volunteer doctor in disadvantaged communities in Poland, Belgium, France, Thailand and now Cambodia. Aki Ra was a child soldier drafted by first the Khmer Rouge and later the Vietnamese army. One of his responsibilities was to plant land mines for both sides. After peace came to Cambodia he started his own demining operation. He has been clearing landmines in Cambodia since 1990. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. In addition to the demining operation, Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 kids maimed by mines. In addition to demining operations Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 children maimed by mines.   Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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  • 26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: DR. JEFFREY CONNELL, a US citizen, examines HOOT NAK, 19, in Connell's home / clinic at the Land Mine Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Connell said he has worked as a volunteer doctor in disadvantaged communities in Poland, Belgium, France, Thailand and now Cambodia. Aki Ra was a child soldier drafted by first the Khmer Rouge and later the Vietnamese army. One of his responsibilities was to plant land mines for both sides. After peace came to Cambodia he started his own demining operation. He has been clearing landmines in Cambodia since 1990. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. In addition to the demining operation, Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 kids maimed by mines. In addition to demining operations Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 children maimed by mines.   Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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  • 26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: CHUNG SOKNA, 16, wears an old Khmer Rouge type outfit as she greets visitors at the landmine museum operated by Aki Ra in Siem Reap. She lost her arm to a landmine in 1999 while she was looking after her family cows near Siem Reap. Aki Ra was a child soldier drafted by first the Khmer Rouge and later the Vietnamese army. One of his responsibilities was to plant land mines for both sides. After peace came to Cambodia he started his own demining operation. He has been clearing landmines in Cambodia since 1990. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. In addition to demining operations Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 children maimed by mines.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: CHUNG SOKNA, 16, wears an old Khmer Rouge type outfit as she greets visitors at the landmine museum operated by Aki Ra in Siem Reap. She lost her arm to a landmine in 1999 while she was looking after her family cows near Siem Reap. Aki Ra was a child soldier drafted by first the Khmer Rouge and later the Vietnamese army. One of his responsibilities was to plant land mines for both sides. After peace came to Cambodia he started his own demining operation. He has been clearing landmines in Cambodia since 1990. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. In addition to demining operations Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 children maimed by mines.  Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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  • 26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: CHIN BOREAK, 13, waits for tourists in front of the landmine museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He lost his arm when he picked up a piece of unexploded ordinance along the Thai-Cambodian border, near his family farm. Aki Ra was a child soldier drafted by first the Khmer Rouge and later the Vietnamese army. One of his responsibilities was to plant land mines for both sides. After peace came to Cambodia he started his own demining operation. He has been clearing landmines in Cambodia since 1990. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. In addition to the demining operation, Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 kids maimed by mines. In addition to demining operations Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 children maimed by mines.   Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 27 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: HAM KOMSUP, 28, undergoes  physical therapy at Handicap International in Siem Reap, Cambodia.  He was a child soldier fighting the Khmer Rouge near the Thai border in 1993 when he stepped on a small plastic landmine which blew off his foot and part of his leg. He is now undergoing therapy at Handicap International. Handicap International helps Cambodians maimed by mines and unexploded ordinance as well as traffic accidents and disease adjust to a life without limbs. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 27 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: HAM KOMSUP, 28, waits for physical therapy to start at Handicap International in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He was a child soldier fighting the Khmer Rouge near the Thai border in 1993 when he stepped on a small plastic landmine which blew off his foot and part of his leg. He is now undergoing therapy at Handicap International. Handicap International helps Cambodians maimed by mines and unexploded ordinance as well as traffic accidents and disease adjust to a life without limbs. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A Mexican Indian child fleeing fighting between Zapatista guerillas and the Mexican army during the Zapatista uprising near Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico, Jan. 6, 1994. The Zapatistas captured and held San Cristobal for about a day at the beginning of the uprising.   ©  JACK KURTZ   MILITARY  ZAPATISTAS   POVERTY  INDIGENOUS    CULTURE    LAND ISSUES  refugees
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  • 05 AUGUST 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: A child rides a bike through a splash pad in Evelyn K. Davis Park in Des Moines.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A man shouts instructions into the crowd while holding a flashlight for emergency medics from the Ruamkatanya Foundation at the scene of a fatal accident involving a child in Bangkok. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medical team tries to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Ruamkatanyu Foundation medic looks up while trying to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle near the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok. The child had severe head injuries and died at the scene. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 14 JULY 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   A woman and her child on the BTS Skytrain in Bangkok. The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS Skytrain, is an elevated rapid transit system in Bangkok, Thailand. It is operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited (BTSC) under a concession granted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). The system consists of twenty-three stations along two lines: the Sukhumvit line running northwards and eastwards, terminating at Mo Chit and On Nut respectively, and the Silom line which plies Silom and Sathon Roads, the Central Business District of Bangkok, terminating at the National Stadium and Wongwian Yai. The lines interchange at Siam Station and have a combined route distance of 55 km.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: HOOT NAK, 19, draws water from a well before bathing. He lost his leg in a landmine explosion when he was 8. The explosion killed his brother and sister. He lives at the orphanage operated by Aki Ra in Siem Reap. Aki Ra was a child soldier drafted by first the Khmer Rouge and later the Vietnamese army. One of his responsibilities was to plant land mines for both sides. After peace came to Cambodia he started his own demining operation. He has been clearing landmines in Cambodia since 1990. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. In addition to the demining operation, Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 kids maimed by mines. In addition to demining operations Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 children maimed by mines.   Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 17 MARCH 2006 - KAMPONG CHHNANG, KAMPONG CHHNANG, CAMBODIA: Traditional Cambodian thatched homes along the Tonle Sap River near the city of Kampong Chhnang in central Cambodia. Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 30 OCTOBER 2015 - TWANTE, MYANMAR: Children in the doorway of their home in the potters' village in Twante, (also spelled Twantay) Myanmar. Twante, about 20 miles from Yangon, is best known for its traditional pottery. The pottery makers are struggling to keep workers in their sheds though. As Myanmar opens up to outside investments and its economy expands, young people are moving to Yangon to take jobs in the better paying tourist industry or in the factories that are springing up around Yangon.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 MARCH 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Children of firefighters hang their laundry in a lobby in the old Customs House in Bangkok. The old Customs House was once the financial gateway to Thailand (before 1932 called Siam). It was designed by an Italian architect in the 1880s. In the 1950s, customs moved to new, more modern building and the Customs House became the headquarters for the Marine firefighters. The firefighters now live in the decrepit buildings with their families.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 MARCH 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Children of firefighters hang their laundry in a lobby in the old Customs House in Bangkok. The old Customs House was once the financial gateway to Thailand (before 1932 called Siam). It was designed by an Italian architect in the 1880s. In the 1950s, customs moved to new, more modern building and the Customs House became the headquarters for the Marine firefighters. The firefighters now live in the decrepit buildings with their families.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 FEBRUARY 2015 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: A woman feeds her daughter in Phnom Penh.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 AUGUST 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Children line up for free toys during a food distribution at Pek Leng Keng Mangkorn Khiew Shrine in Bangkok. Thousands of people lined up for food distribution at the Pek Leng Keng Mangkorn Khiew Shrine in the Khlong Toei section of Bangkok Thursday. Khlong Toei is one of the poorest sections of Bangkok. The seventh month of the Chinese Lunar calendar is called "Ghost Month" during which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. It is common for Chinese people to make merit during the month by burning "hell money" and presenting food to the ghosts. At Chinese temples in Thailand, it is also customary to give food to the poorer people in the community.<br />
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  • 07 AUGUST 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Children line up for free toys during a food distribution at Pek Leng Keng Mangkorn Khiew Shrine in Bangkok. Thousands of people lined up for food distribution at the Pek Leng Keng Mangkorn Khiew Shrine in the Khlong Toei section of Bangkok Thursday. Khlong Toei is one of the poorest sections of Bangkok. The seventh month of the Chinese Lunar calendar is called "Ghost Month" during which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. It is common for Chinese people to make merit during the month by burning "hell money" and presenting food to the ghosts. At Chinese temples in Thailand, it is also customary to give food to the poorer people in the community.<br />
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  • 16 NOVEMBER 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A youngster plays a lottery like game at the Wat Saket temple fair. Wat Saket is on a man-made hill in the historic section of Bangkok. The temple has golden spire that is 260 feet high which was the highest point in Bangkok for more than 100 years. The temple construction began in the 1800s in the reign of King Rama III and was completed in the reign of King Rama IV. The annual temple fair is held on the 12th lunar month, for nine days around the November full moon. During the fair a red cloth (reminiscent of a monk's robe) is placed around the Golden Mount while the temple grounds hosts Thai traditional theatre, food stalls and traditional shows.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 MARCH 2013 - LUANG PRABANG, LAOS:  A Lao girl stands in the doorway of her home in Luang Prabang. Luang Prabang has more than 30 temples and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is the most visited tourist attraction in Laos.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 JANUARY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Children with their toys in the Bang Luang neighborhood of Bangkok. The Bang Luang neighborhood lines Khlong (Canal) Bang Luang in the Thonburi section of Bangkok on the west side of Chao Phraya River. It was established in the late 18th Century by King Taksin the Great after the Burmese sacked the Siamese capital of Ayutthaya. The neighborhood, like most of Thonburi, is relatively undeveloped and still criss crossed by the canals which once made Bangkok famous. It's now a popular day trip from central Bangkok and offers a glimpse into what the city used to be like.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 JANUARY 2013 - KANCHANABURI, THAILAND:    A woman holds her daughter in a third class train car on the train between Bangkok (Thonburi station) and Kanchanaburi.  Thailand has a very advanced rail system and trains reach all parts of the country.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 JANUARY 2013 - KANCHANABURI, THAILAND:    A woman holds her daughter in a third class train car on the train between Bangkok (Thonburi station) and Kanchanaburi.  Thailand has a very advanced rail system and trains reach all parts of the country.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 JANUARY 2013 - KANCHANABURI, THAILAND:    A woman holds her son in a third class train car on the train between Bangkok (Thonburi station) and Kanchanaburi.  Thailand has a very advanced rail system and trains reach all parts of the country.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 JANUARY 2013 - KANCHANABURI, THAILAND:    A woman holds her son in a third class train car on the train between Bangkok (Thonburi station) and Kanchanaburi.  Thailand has a very advanced rail system and trains reach all parts of the country.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 JANUARY 2013 - KANCHANABURI, THAILAND:   A man carries his son to their seat in a third class car on the train between Bangkok (Thonburi station) and Kanchanaburi. Thailand has a very advanced rail system and trains reach all parts of the country.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 JANUARY 2013 - KANCHANABURI, THAILAND:   A man carries his son to their seat in a third class car on the train between Bangkok (Thonburi station) and Kanchanaburi. Thailand has a very advanced rail system and trains reach all parts of the country.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 JANUARY 2013 - KANCHANABURI, THAILAND:   A man carries his son to their seat in a third class car on the train between Bangkok (Thonburi station) and Kanchanaburi. Thailand has a very advanced rail system and trains reach all parts of the country.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 DECEMBER 2012 - KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: The hand of a girl who received a henna tattoo on Jalan Tun Sambanthan, the main street in "Brickfields," the Little India section of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The "Little India" section of Kuala Lumpur is also known as "Brickfields." The area has recently been renovated and has emerged as a tourist draw. It's within walking distance of KL Stesen Sentral, the Kuala Lumpur central train station.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A crowd gathers around a Ruamkatanya Foundation emergency medical team trying to save the life of a boy hit by a vehicle. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation was started more than 60 years ago as a charitable organisation that collected the dead and transported them to the nearest facility. Crews sometimes found that the person they had been called to collect wasn't dead, and they were called upon to provide emergency medical care. That's how the foundation medical and rescue service was started. The foundation has 7,000 volunteers nationwide and along with the larger Poh Teck Tung Foundation, is one of the two largest rescue services in the country. The volunteer crews were once dubbed Bangkok's "Body Snatchers" but they do much more than that now.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 APRIL 2012 - HANOI, VIETNAM:   The daughter of a shop owner plays next to mannequins of children at a children's clothing shop in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 18 FEBRUARY 2008 -- BONG TI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: at the Bamboo School in Bong Ti, Thailand, about 40 miles from the provincial capital of Kanchanaburi. Sixty three children, most members of the Karen hilltribe, a persecuted ethnic minority in Burma, live at the school under the care of Catherine Riley-Bryan, whom the locals call MomoCat (Momo is the Karen hilltribe word for mother). She provides housing, food and medical care for the kids and helps them get enrolled in nearby Thai public schools. Her compound is about a half mile from the Thai-Burma border. She also helps nearby Karen refugee villages by digging water wells for them and providing medical care.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 18 FEBRUARY 2008 -- BONG TI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: A Christian Karen woman reads her bible while her grandson stands next to her in a refugee village near the Bamboo School in Bong Ti, Thailand, about 40 miles from the provincial capital of Kanchanaburi. Sixty three children, most members of the Karen hilltribe, a persecuted ethnic minority in Burma, live at the school under the care of Catherine Riley-Bryan, whom the locals call MomoCat (Momo is the Karen hilltribe word for mother). She provides housing, food and medical care for the kids and helps them get enrolled in nearby Thai public schools. Her compound is about a half mile from the Thai-Burma border. She also helps nearby Karen refugee villages by digging water wells for them and providing medical care. Thai authorities have allowed the refugees to set up the village very close to the border but the villagers are not allowed to own land in Thailand and they can't legally leave the area to get jobs in Thailand.   Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 18 FEBRUARY 2008 -- BONG TI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: A Christian Karen woman reads her bible while her grandson stands next to her in a refugee village near the Bamboo School in Bong Ti, Thailand, about 40 miles from the provincial capital of Kanchanaburi. Sixty three children, most members of the Karen hilltribe, a persecuted ethnic minority in Burma, live at the school under the care of Catherine Riley-Bryan, whom the locals call MomoCat (Momo is the Karen hilltribe word for mother). She provides housing, food and medical care for the kids and helps them get enrolled in nearby Thai public schools. Her compound is about a half mile from the Thai-Burma border. She also helps nearby Karen refugee villages by digging water wells for them and providing medical care. Thai authorities have allowed the refugees to set up the village very close to the border but the villagers are not allowed to own land in Thailand and they can't legally leave the area to get jobs in Thailand.   Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 18 FEBRUARY 2008 -- BONG TI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: A Karen woman and her grandson in a refugee village near the Bamboo School in Bong Ti, Thailand, about 40 miles from the provincial capital of Kanchanaburi. Sixty three children, most members of the Karen hilltribe, a persecuted ethnic minority in Burma, live at the school under the care of Catherine Riley-Bryan, whom the locals call MomoCat (Momo is the Karen hilltribe word for mother). She provides housing, food and medical care for the kids and helps them get enrolled in nearby Thai public schools. Her compound is about a half mile from the Thai-Burma border. She also helps nearby Karen refugee villages by digging water wells for them and providing medical care. Thai authorities have allowed the refugees to set up the village very close to the border but the villagers are not allowed to own land in Thailand and they can't legally leave the area to get jobs in Thailand.   Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 18 FEBRUARY 2008 -- BONG TI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: A Karen woman and her grandson in a refugee village near the Bamboo School in Bong Ti, Thailand, about 40 miles from the provincial capital of Kanchanaburi. Sixty three children, most members of the Karen hilltribe, a persecuted ethnic minority in Burma, live at the school under the care of Catherine Riley-Bryan, whom the locals call MomoCat (Momo is the Karen hilltribe word for mother). She provides housing, food and medical care for the kids and helps them get enrolled in nearby Thai public schools. Her compound is about a half mile from the Thai-Burma border. She also helps nearby Karen refugee villages by digging water wells for them and providing medical care. Thai authorities have allowed the refugees to set up the village very close to the border but the villagers are not allowed to own land in Thailand and they can't legally leave the area to get jobs in Thailand.   Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 01 SEPTEMBER 2011 - ST. PAUL, MN:  A woman on horseback carries the American flag around the arena at the opening of a high school rodeo performance at the Minnesota State Fair. The Minnesota State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the United States. It's called "the Great Minnesota Get Together" and includes numerous agricultural exhibits, a vast midway with rides and games, horse shows and rodeos. Nearly two million people a year visit the fair, which is located in St. Paul. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 01 SEPTEMBER 2011 - ST. PAUL, MN:  A girl watches newborn piglets nurse in the "Miracle of Birth" birthing barn at the Minnesota State Fair. Pregnant pigs, sheep and cows are on display in the birthing barn and fair goers get to see the animals give birth. The Minnesota State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the United States. It's called "the Great Minnesota Get Together" and includes numerous agricultural exhibits, a vast midway with rides and games, horse shows and rodeos. Nearly two million people a year visit the fair, which is located in St. Paul.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 01 SEPTEMBER 2011 - ST. PAUL, MN:  A cowgirl leaves the chutes in break away roping during the high school rodeo at the Minnesota State Fair. The Minnesota State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the United States. It's called "the Great Minnesota Get Together" and includes numerous agricultural exhibits, a vast midway with rides and games, horse shows and rodeos. Nearly two million people a year visit the fair, which is located in St. Paul.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JUNE 2011 - CHIANG MAI, THAILAND:  A man helps his daughter bathe a statue of the Buddha to "make merit" in the "Walking Street" market in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Walking Street market is a weekly, Sunday night, market along Ratchadamnoen Street in Chiang Mai.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • Apr. 25 -- UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA:   Children watch the cremation of Cokorde Gede Raka, a member of Ubud's royal family, Sunday, Apr. 25. Balinese are Hindus and cremate their dead. Balinese funerals are elaborate - and expensive - affairs. A funeral for one person costs a minimum of 45 million rupiah (about $5,000 US). The body is placed into the bull's body at the cremation and cremated in the bull. The funeral pyre is burnt adjacent to the bull. That is what a family may earn in two to three years. The result is that only the rich can afford formal cremations. The body (in the casket) is placed in the top of the funeral pyre and the procession takes the body to the cremation site. The funeral pyre, and the body, are spun at intersections to confuse the spirits so the soul doesn't try to return to its home and to confuse evil spirits.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • Apr. 25 -- UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA:   Children watch the cremation of Cokorde Gede Raka, a member of Ubud's royal family, Sunday, Apr. 25. Balinese are Hindus and cremate their dead. Balinese funerals are elaborate - and expensive - affairs. A funeral for one person costs a minimum of 45 million rupiah (about $5,000 US). The body is placed into the bull's body at the cremation and cremated in the bull. The funeral pyre is burnt adjacent to the bull. That is what a family may earn in two to three years. The result is that only the rich can afford formal cremations. The body (in the casket) is placed in the top of the funeral pyre and the procession takes the body to the cremation site. The funeral pyre, and the body, are spun at intersections to confuse the spirits so the soul doesn't try to return to its home and to confuse evil spirits.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • Mar. 19, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: A girl rests against a blue wall in the Ban Krua section of Bangkok. The Ban Krua neighborhood of Bangkok is the oldest Muslim community in Bangkok. Ban Krua was originally settled by Cham Muslims from Cambodia and Vietnam who fought on the side of the Thai King Rama I. They were given a royal grant of land east of what was then the Thai capitol at the end of the 18th century in return for their military service. The Cham Muslims were originally weavers and what is known as "Thai Silk" was developed by the people in Ban Krua. Several families in the neighborhood still weave in their homes.   Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • Mar. 19, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: A boy picks condiments for his lunch in a neighborhood food stall in the Ban Krua section of Bangkok. The Ban Krua neighborhood of Bangkok is the oldest Muslim community in Bangkok. Ban Krua was originally settled by Cham Muslims from Cambodia and Vietnam who fought on the side of the Thai King Rama I. They were given a royal grant of land east of what was then the Thai capitol at the end of the 18th century in return for their military service. The Cham Muslims were originally weavers and what is known as "Thai Silk" was developed by the people in Ban Krua. Several families in the neighborhood still weave in their homes.   Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • Mar. 16, 2009 -- LUANG PRABANG, LAOS: Children play with their tops in a village on Highway 13 south of Luang Prabang, Laos. Highway 13 is the main highway in Laos and carries tourist and truck traffic between the capital Vientiane and Luang Prabang. Photo by Jack Kurtz
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