Shailendra Yashwant

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Chennai Oil Spill,

Fishermen cleaning their nets of the dark waxy bunker oil , Ennore, Tamilnadu, India.

Oil recovered by volunteers stored haphazardly in drums after Chennai oil spill

Kattamaram, the preferred fishing vessels of artisans fishermen at Ennore destroyed by oil spill

Orang-utan with mother, Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia - Sumatran Orangutans (Pongo abelii) are listed as critically endangered species of great apes. There are only about 7000 of them left in the rapidly disappearing rainforests on the island of Sumatra. Expansion for palm oil plantation is the biggest threat to the Orang utan and is also one of the biggest causes of carbon emissions from Indonesia.

Elephants at Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India - The home of the great Indian one-horned rhino, Bengal tiger, wild buffalo, Asian elephant and eastern swamp deer is justifiably regarded as one of India’s best protected national parks. Read about threats to this world heritage site - http://goo.gl/BFC2ix

One Horned Rhinoceros, Kaziranga, Assam, India.

Shailendra Yashwant

Putul, Daulatadia, Bangladesh - Putul works as an assistant teacher at Save the Children’s school for sex workers children of the Daulatdia brothel of Bangladesh. Her name is Bengali for doll and she is adored by her students. She lives outside the brothel and is married to a mechanic. They have two children. Putul is studying for her graduate degree and every day that she stands in front of her students, she gives them hope that with education they too can escape brothel life. Hope that the corrugated iron rooms and corridors won’t be home forever. She was born to a sex worker living with a violent pimp in Daulatdia. She knows that her life would have been very different if it wasn’t for the school. To find out more about Save the Children’s program in Daulatadia - https://goo.gl/d0BWzO

Chanthy, Koh Kong, Cambodia - Chanthy is 13. She’s the top student in her class at school in Boeung Kachang village and loves reading and maths. It’s common for her to skip games sessions just to keep reading in the library at the school. She wants to be a doctor, but her father isn’t sure if he can pay for her education as unpredictable weather is affecting his livelihood. During her short life Chanthy has seen many storms and flash floods, but it’s not the thunder and the lightning that frighten her. It’s the fact that her father won’t be able to go out fishing and her family will go hungry. Worse yet, is the fear that Chanthy won’t be able to go to school. - From my work for Save the Children's program in Cambodia. You can support Project Chanthy here - https://goo.gl/9q20F2

Pharma effluents draining into Isnapur lake

Mangroves, Cambodia.

Dry fields, Ladakh, India.

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