http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/17449 A portfolio about poverty, conflict and Aids obliterate childhood. http://www.lightstalkers.org en-us http://images.lightstalkers.org/avatars/11735/Unbenannt-2_small.jpg http://www.lightstalkers.org/Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748239/An_Innocent_View_01_small.jpg' /><br />Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, April 2008 Ensuring that children are safe from abuse, violence and exploitation is a shared responsbility for governments, societies, families and individuals. - www.unicef.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748239'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748239 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:21:36 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748239 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748239/An_Innocent_View_01_small.jpg' /><br />Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, April 2008 Ensuring that children are safe from abuse, violence and exploitation is a shared responsbility for governments, societies, families and individuals. - www.unicef.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748239'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748266/An_Innocent_View_02_small.jpg' /><br />Workers at the City Market, Kolkata, India Street children are considered a synonym for homeless children who lack parentental care and pedagogical influence. - www.psychiatry.org.ua <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748266'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748266 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:39:21 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748266 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748266/An_Innocent_View_02_small.jpg' /><br />Workers at the City Market, Kolkata, India Street children are considered a synonym for homeless children who lack parentental care and pedagogical influence. - www.psychiatry.org.ua <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748266'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748272/An_Innocent_View_04_small.jpg' /><br />"Lost Boy" asleep in the streets of Kolkata, India There are about 50,000 street children in Kolkata. - www.cvi-usa.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748272'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748272 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:41:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748272 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748272/An_Innocent_View_04_small.jpg' /><br />"Lost Boy" asleep in the streets of Kolkata, India There are about 50,000 street children in Kolkata. - www.cvi-usa.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748272'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748975/An_Innocent_View_05_small.jpg' /><br />Homeless boy with his Mother on the streets of Chittagong, Bangladesh Three billion people live on less than $2 a day. - www.wscsd.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748975'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748975 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:50:10 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748975 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748975/An_Innocent_View_05_small.jpg' /><br />Homeless boy with his Mother on the streets of Chittagong, Bangladesh Three billion people live on less than $2 a day. - www.wscsd.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748975'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/777324/Pit_Buehler_PR_10_small.jpg' /><br />"African Mothers" - Mother and Daugther at the hospital of Kibogora, Rwanda Forty percent of all HIV/AIDS cases are the result of mother to child transmission. - www.aidsaction.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/777324'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/777324 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/777324 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/777324/Pit_Buehler_PR_10_small.jpg' /><br />"African Mothers" - Mother and Daugther at the hospital of Kibogora, Rwanda Forty percent of all HIV/AIDS cases are the result of mother to child transmission. - www.aidsaction.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/777324'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748245/An_Innocent_View_10_small.jpg' /><br />Grandmother with her nephew begging in the streets of Kolkata, India Grandmothers often bury their sons and daughters and become mothers again to the children left behind, many of whom also suffer from HIV/AIDS. There are millions of grandmothers looking after their orphaned grandchildren with little money, little food and little help. www.thegrannies.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748245'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748245 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748245 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748245/An_Innocent_View_10_small.jpg' /><br />Grandmother with her nephew begging in the streets of Kolkata, India Grandmothers often bury their sons and daughters and become mothers again to the children left behind, many of whom also suffer from HIV/AIDS. There are millions of grandmothers looking after their orphaned grandchildren with little money, little food and little help. www.thegrannies.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748245'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/749009/An_Innocent_View_14_small.jpg' /><br />"Azrael", Dire Dawa, Ethiopia In Sub-Saharan Africa, 1 in every 6 children dies before the age of five. - www.wsws.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/749009'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/749009 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/749009 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/749009/An_Innocent_View_14_small.jpg' /><br />"Azrael", Dire Dawa, Ethiopia In Sub-Saharan Africa, 1 in every 6 children dies before the age of five. - www.wsws.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/749009'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748524/An_Innocent_View_16_small.jpg' /><br />Chittagong, Bangladesh<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748524'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748524 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748524 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748524/An_Innocent_View_16_small.jpg' /><br />Chittagong, Bangladesh<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748524'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748581/An_Innocent_View_18_small.jpg' /><br />"Existence" - Slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh Polluted water and poor sanitation kill two children each minute. - http://topics.nytimes.com <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748581'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748581 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748581 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748581/An_Innocent_View_18_small.jpg' /><br />"Existence" - Slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh Polluted water and poor sanitation kill two children each minute. - http://topics.nytimes.com <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748581'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748242/An_Innocent_View_19_small.jpg' /><br />"Waterpark" - Street children playing in the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh Contaminated water is the single biggest killer of children in Asia. - www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748242'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748242 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748242 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748242/An_Innocent_View_19_small.jpg' /><br />"Waterpark" - Street children playing in the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh Contaminated water is the single biggest killer of children in Asia. - www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748242'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748248/An_Innocent_View_23_small.jpg' /><br />IDP Refugee Camp, Gulu, Uganda Malnutrition affects 852 million people worldwide. - www.v2020.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748248'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748248 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748248 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748248/An_Innocent_View_23_small.jpg' /><br />IDP Refugee Camp, Gulu, Uganda Malnutrition affects 852 million people worldwide. - www.v2020.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748248'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748263/An_Innocent_View_24_small.jpg' /><br />IDP Refugee Camp, Gulu, North Uganda For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment. - www.globalissues.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748263'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748263 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748263 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748263/An_Innocent_View_24_small.jpg' /><br />IDP Refugee Camp, Gulu, North Uganda For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment. - www.globalissues.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748263'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748278/An_Innocent_View_28_small.jpg' /><br />Farm Girl collecting firewood, near Gondar, Ethiopia Nearly 218 million children engaged in child labor around the world - http://hrw.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748278'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748278 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748278 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748278/An_Innocent_View_28_small.jpg' /><br />Farm Girl collecting firewood, near Gondar, Ethiopia Nearly 218 million children engaged in child labor around the world - http://hrw.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748278'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748275/An_Innocent_View_29_small.jpg' /><br />Young shepherds, Lalibela<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748275'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748275 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748275 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748275/An_Innocent_View_29_small.jpg' /><br />Young shepherds, Lalibela<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748275'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748284/An_Innocent_View_30_small.jpg' /><br />Farmer's Market, Kolkata, India<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748284'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748284 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748284 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748284/An_Innocent_View_30_small.jpg' /><br />Farmer's Market, Kolkata, India<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748284'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748458/An_Innocent_View_31_small.jpg' /><br />"Fey" - dying boy at the Hospital of Kibogora, Rwanda About 28 million children die from easily curable diseases each year. - www.abaana.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748458'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748458 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748458 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748458/An_Innocent_View_31_small.jpg' /><br />"Fey" - dying boy at the Hospital of Kibogora, Rwanda About 28 million children die from easily curable diseases each year. - www.abaana.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748458'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748287/An_Innocent_View_34_small.jpg' /><br />Two brothers with their blind mother in the streets of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia Of the 600 million people with eye disabilities worldwide, 82% live below the poverty line. - www.v2020.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748287'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748287 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748287 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748287/An_Innocent_View_34_small.jpg' /><br />Two brothers with their blind mother in the streets of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia Of the 600 million people with eye disabilities worldwide, 82% live below the poverty line. - www.v2020.org <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748287'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748509/An_Innocent_View_35_small.jpg' /><br />Cienfuegos, Cuba Barely 50% of disabled children reach adulthood. - www.infochangeindia.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748509'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748509 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748509 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748509/An_Innocent_View_35_small.jpg' /><br />Cienfuegos, Cuba Barely 50% of disabled children reach adulthood. - www.infochangeindia.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748509'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748551/An_Innocent_View_37_small.jpg' /><br />Boy Soldier, border area between Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo An estimated 300,000 child soldiers, some as young as seven, are actively fighting in 41 countries. - www.un.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748551'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748551 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748551 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748551/An_Innocent_View_37_small.jpg' /><br />Boy Soldier, border area between Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo An estimated 300,000 child soldiers, some as young as seven, are actively fighting in 41 countries. - www.un.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748551'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748470/An_Innocent_View_40_small.jpg' /><br />Orphans at the The Missionaries of Charity, House of Prem Dam, Kolkata, India UNICEF estimates the total number of orphans worldwide at approximately 210 million. - www.indianngos.com<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748470'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748470 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748470 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748470/An_Innocent_View_40_small.jpg' /><br />Orphans at the The Missionaries of Charity, House of Prem Dam, Kolkata, India UNICEF estimates the total number of orphans worldwide at approximately 210 million. - www.indianngos.com<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748470'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748530/An_Innocent_View_42_small.jpg' /><br />"Daydreams" - School Girls at the University of Gondar Community School, Gondar, Ethiopia It would take less than one percent of the amount the world spends every year on weapons, to put every child in school. - www.globalissues.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748530'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748530 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748530 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748530/An_Innocent_View_42_small.jpg' /><br />"Daydreams" - School Girls at the University of Gondar Community School, Gondar, Ethiopia It would take less than one percent of the amount the world spends every year on weapons, to put every child in school. - www.globalissues.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748530'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748260/An_Innocent_View_43_small.jpg' /><br />"Friends" in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia Children out of education worldwide - 121 million. - www.globalissues.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748260'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748260 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748260 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748260/An_Innocent_View_43_small.jpg' /><br />"Friends" in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia Children out of education worldwide - 121 million. - www.globalissues.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748260'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748254/An_Innocent_View_49_small.jpg' /><br />"Jungle Models" Requena, on the Amazon, Peru<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748254'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748254 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748254 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/748254/An_Innocent_View_49_small.jpg' /><br />"Jungle Models" Requena, on the Amazon, Peru<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/748254'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/749048/An_Innocent_View_50_small.jpg' /><br />Lalibela, Ethiopia Ensuring that children are safe from abuse, violence and exploitation is a shared responsbility for governments, societies, families and individuals.- www.unicef.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/749048'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/749048 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/749048 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/749048/An_Innocent_View_50_small.jpg' /><br />Lalibela, Ethiopia Ensuring that children are safe from abuse, violence and exploitation is a shared responsbility for governments, societies, families and individuals.- www.unicef.org<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/749048'>view full-size image</a> Pit Buehler