My self-respect was going, my self-esteem was getting lower every day. I was losing my self-confidence. I was sinking low and fast, and again I did not recognise it… I have been clean now for 16 months. I just moved into a flat, and every day I count my blessings. I know I am one of the lucky ones. I am coming through the other side
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Street News Service - Photo Story (Feed 198)
Casualties of the Mindanao
MINDANAO, Philippines: During the course of the past year, hundreds of thousands of families have been forced to flee the Filipino region of Mindanao as their communities and rice fields are transformed into makeshift battlegrounds between government troops and the Morro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The rejection of peace talks by the Filipino supreme court in August last year effectively ended 11 years of peace talks, aimed at ending the conflict which has afflicted the region for the last 30 years, and signalled a return to the violence which has devastated the area and its inhabitants. Jeepney Magazine photographers Debbie Shaw and Ben Rasmusson travel to Mindanao to witness the destruction themselves.
Pictures by Debbie Shaw and Ben Rasmusson, The Jeepney Magazine, the Philippines, © Street News Service: www.street-papers.org. [All pictures are available in high resolution, please email sns@street-papers.org]
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