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After more than six years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world.BANGKOK - MARCH : in Taipei, Taiwan on March 19, 2020. According to CDC current totals the Coronavirus ( COVID-19) has now effected 235,939 globally, killing 9,874. It has spread to 157 countries. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images ) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_45.jpg Aleksandra Losipovna, age 91, from Kramatorsk, was brought to the nursing home by her only relative, her grandson, because she lives alone and he is afraid she can harm herself, there has been no medical treatment provided besides painkillers. Aleksandra passed away in the nursing home in May. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Aleksandra Losipovna, age 91, from Kramatorsk, was brought to the nursing home by her only relative, her grandson, because she lives alone and he is afraid she can harm herself, there has been no medical treatment provided besides painkillers. Aleksandra passed away in the nursing home in May. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres04.jpg A war-torn cemetery full of tombstones that have been hit by gunfire at the devastated neighborhood near the Donetsk airport. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. A war-torn cemetery full of tombstones that have been hit by gunfire at the devastated neighborhood near the Donetsk airport. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres06.jpg Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Abandoned, destroyed homes are seen in Opytne a village too close to the front line of the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Abandoned, destroyed homes are seen in Opytne a village too close to the front line of the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_26.jpg ( Opid-ne ) Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya was killed at the age of 77, her home caught on fire from an oil lantern, firefighters couldn’t access the home because of the dangers of the front line village, largely controlled by the Ukrainian military. She is seen holding new chicks delivered by ICRC as part of a humanitarian aid service for elderly that live alone. This allows her to raise chickens making a small income. Mariya often speaks with tears in her eyes while talking about the death of her son and her husband. Her son Victor,48, was fatally injured by shelling in 2016 that hit the home. He died in her arms. Her husband, passed away the same year from a heart attack caused by extreme stress of living too close to the front line. She refuses to leave her village because her family are buried near by."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. ( Opid-ne ) Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya was killed at the age of 77, her home caught on fire from an oil lantern, firefighters couldn’t access the home because of the dangers of the front line village, largely controlled by the Ukrainian military. She is seen holding new chicks delivered by ICRC as part of a humanitarian aid service for elderly that live alone. This allows her to raise chickens making a small income. Mariya often speaks with tears in her eyes while talking about the death of her son and her husband. Her son Victor,48, was fatally injured by shelling in 2016 that hit the home. He died in her arms. Her husband, passed away the same year from a heart attack caused by extreme stress of living too close to the front line. She refuses to leave her village because her family are buried near by."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_04.jpg Donetsk People's Republic: Raisa Andreyevna, 72, walks by a local market area which was destroyed back in 2015. Since the start of the war she can no longer receive her Ukrainian pension of $50 a month so works as a janitor which pays her enough to survive. Originally from Russia, she now lives alone. Her children and grandchildren have all moved away to safer areas as part of Donetsk remain dangerous and occasionally gets shelled. "I am not afraid to get killed because I have already lived my life but they have children they have to take care of. Donetsk People's Republic: Raisa Andreyevna, 72, walks by a local market area which was destroyed back in 2015. Since the start of the war she can no longer receive her Ukrainian pension of $50 a month so works as a janitor which pays her enough to survive. Originally from Russia, she now lives alone. Her children and grandchildren have all moved away to safer areas as part of Donetsk remain dangerous and occasionally gets shelled. "I am not afraid to get killed because I have already lived my life but they have children they have to take care of. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_29.jpg Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR): Antonina Kondratiyevna, 77, stands in her neighbor's home, destroyed during heavy battles between Ukrainian army and pro-Russian militia in 2014-2015. She and her elderly sister are among few residents living in the devastated neighborhood near Donetsk airport. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR): Antonina Kondratiyevna, 77, stands in her neighbor's home, destroyed during heavy battles between Ukrainian army and pro-Russian militia in 2014-2015. She and her elderly sister are among few residents living in the devastated neighborhood near Donetsk airport. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_10.jpg Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich reside in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists. Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. Raisa says that they have learned to live with the sound of shelling and gunfire daily. "We were sitting at home, screaming at them not to kill us!" Riasa said. " Her husband was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav suffers from dementia now along with his other medical issues, he died from lack of proper medical care in September. Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich reside in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists. Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. Raisa says that they have learned to live with the sound of shelling and gunfire daily. "We were sitting at home, screaming at them not to kill us!" Riasa said. " Her husband was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav suffers from dementia now along with his other medical issues, he died from lack of proper medical care in September. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_11.jpg Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich live in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists, too close to the contact line. Raisa says that tanks were driving in front of their home in the first year of the war, now they have learned to live with the sound of shelling and gunfire daily. "We were sitting last home, screaming at them not to kill us!" Riasa said. " Her husband was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav suffers from dementia now along with his other medical issues. " I have to treat him as a child, I am so sorry that he is like this now, I am afraid to leave him even for a moment.;" Raisa stated. Their two sons live on the other side of the contact line unable to visit often because of the war. Their village, Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich live in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists, too close to the contact line. Raisa says that tanks were driving in front of their home in the first year of the war, now they have learned to live with the sound of shelling and gunfire daily. "We were sitting last home, screaming at them not to kill us!" Riasa said. " Her husband was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav suffers from dementia now along with his other medical issues. " I have to treat him as a child, I am so sorry that he is like this now, I am afraid to leave him even for a moment.;" Raisa stated. Their two sons live on the other side of the contact line unable to visit often because of the war. Their village, Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_12.jpg Opytne: Donetsk region: Stanislav Vasilyevich was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav also suffers from dementia along with his other medical issues. Their village, Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. Opytne: Donetsk region: Stanislav Vasilyevich was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav also suffers from dementia along with his other medical issues. Their village, Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_13.jpg Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 can't afford new shoes so she wears the same old slippers every day. Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich live in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists, too close to the contact line. Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 can't afford new shoes so she wears the same old slippers every day. Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich live in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists, too close to the contact line. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_42.jpg UKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WAR | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View UKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WAR by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_05.jpg Chasov Yar, Donetsk region: Lyudmila Yevgenievna, age 64 from Chasov Yar is seen by windows at a residence for the elderly in Chasov Yar, Eastern Ukraine. All her relatives have died and she was left alone . Evgeniy Tkachev has founded the elderly care facility with his own money. He bought two private houses across the street from each other. One house is for elderly women, another for men. "I evacuate elderly people from the stress affect by the conflict. "These people have nowhere to go. Over 50% of the elderly here do not receive their pensions due to the loss of the documents. Chasov Yar, Donetsk region: Lyudmila Yevgenievna, age 64 from Chasov Yar is seen by windows at a residence for the elderly in Chasov Yar, Eastern Ukraine. All her relatives have died and she was left alone . Evgeniy Tkachev has founded the elderly care facility with his own money. He bought two private houses across the street from each other. One house is for elderly women, another for men. "I evacuate elderly people from the stress affect by the conflict. "These people have nowhere to go. Over 50% of the elderly here do not receive their pensions due to the loss of the documents. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_06.jpg Avdiivka: Vladimir Mamoshyn, age 65, sits in his wheelchair, his wife died in 2010, now he lives alone, his children abandoned him. He resides in the war-torn Avdiivka village, less than a kilometer from the contact line where daily shelling and gunfire can be heard. In 2016, Vladimir lost his leg due to a vascular disease, with poor access to health facilities along with inadequate health care. After having a heart attack a few months later in 2017 he lost the use of his left hand, now he lives in a wheelchair depending on family and friends to help him. Avdiivka: Vladimir Mamoshyn, age 65, sits in his wheelchair, his wife died in 2010, now he lives alone, his children abandoned him. He resides in the war-torn Avdiivka village, less than a kilometer from the contact line where daily shelling and gunfire can be heard. In 2016, Vladimir lost his leg due to a vascular disease, with poor access to health facilities along with inadequate health care. After having a heart attack a few months later in 2017 he lost the use of his left hand, now he lives in a wheelchair depending on family and friends to help him. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_36.jpg Avdiivika: Ludmyla Vasilevna, age 61, lives alone with her cats and a few dogs in a war torn village very close to the contact line where most have left due to the dangers. Her son is in the DPR military - militia. Her house was damaged over the years, refuses to leave as she has nowhere else to go. Avdiivika: Ludmyla Vasilevna, age 61, lives alone with her cats and a few dogs in a war torn village very close to the contact line where most have left due to the dangers. Her son is in the DPR military - militia. Her house was damaged over the years, refuses to leave as she has nowhere else to go. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_07.jpg Avdiivika: Elena Parshyna,age 66, she is blind and lives alone now sits on her bed with her dog who now has passed away along with her husband who had a heart attack in April and her son who also died late in 2017 from the same fate. Both her husband and her son were buried in a small cemetery that is mined and too close to the military positions so she never can go visit the graves. The home was shelled last year, still damaged but Elena refuses to leave. Her remaining family - daughter and a sister all live on the other side of the contact line in Makeyevka city controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Avdiivika: Elena Parshyna,age 66, she is blind and lives alone now sits on her bed with her dog who now has passed away along with her husband who had a heart attack in April and her son who also died late in 2017 from the same fate. Both her husband and her son were buried in a small cemetery that is mined and too close to the military positions so she never can go visit the graves. The home was shelled last year, still damaged but Elena refuses to leave. Her remaining family - daughter and a sister all live on the other side of the contact line in Makeyevka city controlled by pro-Russian separatists. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_08.jpg Avdiivika: Elena Parshyna,age 66, is blind and lives alone,feeling depressed and lonely after her husband had a heart attack in April. She says that she cries often now. Her son also died late in 2017 from the same fate. To make matter worse, Both were buried in a small cemetery that is mined and now too close to the military positions so she never can go visit the graves. The home was shelled last year, still damaged but Elena refuses to leave. Her remaining family - daughter and a sister all live on the other side of the contact line in Makeyevka city controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Avdiivika: Elena Parshyna,age 66, is blind and lives alone,feeling depressed and lonely after her husband had a heart attack in April. She says that she cries often now. Her son also died late in 2017 from the same fate. To make matter worse, Both were buried in a small cemetery that is mined and now too close to the military positions so she never can go visit the graves. The home was shelled last year, still damaged but Elena refuses to leave. Her remaining family - daughter and a sister all live on the other side of the contact line in Makeyevka city controlled by pro-Russian separatists. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_27.jpg Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya Gorpynych, age 76, lives alone. She speaks with tears in her eyes while talking about the death of her son. Victor,48 was killed due to the war in 2016, he was fatally injured by shelling that hit the home. He died in her hands. Her husband, died in the same year from a heart attack from extreme stress of living too close to the front line. Mariya refuses to leave her village because her family are buried there."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya Gorpynych, age 76, lives alone. She speaks with tears in her eyes while talking about the death of her son. Victor,48 was killed due to the war in 2016, he was fatally injured by shelling that hit the home. He died in her hands. Her husband, died in the same year from a heart attack from extreme stress of living too close to the front line. Mariya refuses to leave her village because her family are buried there."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_37.jpg Mayorsk, Donetsk region Antonina Malna, age 84, gets cared for by a local nurse, she had a stroke a few months ago and remains in a comatose state while her daughter Zoya watches. The nearest hospital is 25 km away and cannot afford to provide 24h care for patients like Antonina due to the lack of medical staff. Mayorsk is right on the border area in Eastern Ukraine, a very difficult location for the elderly to be unless they have medical and family support. Mayorsk, Donetsk region Antonina Malna, age 84, gets cared for by a local nurse, she had a stroke a few months ago and remains in a comatose state while her daughter Zoya watches. The nearest hospital is 25 km away and cannot afford to provide 24h care for patients like Antonina due to the lack of medical staff. Mayorsk is right on the border area in Eastern Ukraine, a very difficult location for the elderly to be unless they have medical and family support. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_44.jpg Valentina Iosipovna, age 76 lays in bed waiting for staff to feed her at the Druzhkovka nursing home. Valentina Iosipovna, age 76 lays in bed waiting for staff to feed her at the Druzhkovka nursing home. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_09.jpg Druzhkovka, Donetsk region: Sergey Nikitin fell down after having had a stroke, he is seen resting at the Druzhkovka nursing home. As he has dementia, his family abandoned him as they moved to safer areas away from the conflict zone. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Druzhkovka, Donetsk region: Sergey Nikitin fell down after having had a stroke, he is seen resting at the Druzhkovka nursing home. As he has dementia, his family abandoned him as they moved to safer areas away from the conflict zone. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_41.jpg Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya Gorpynych, age 76, lives alone. She speaks with tears in her eyes while talking about the death of her son and her husband. Her son Victor,48, was fatally injured by shelling near the home in 2016, he died in her arms. Then her husband, died in the same year from a heart attack caused by extreme stress. Mariya refuses to leave her village because her family are buried near by."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya Gorpynych, age 76, lives alone. She speaks with tears in her eyes while talking about the death of her son and her husband. Her son Victor,48, was fatally injured by shelling near the home in 2016, he died in her arms. Then her husband, died in the same year from a heart attack caused by extreme stress. Mariya refuses to leave her village because her family are buried near by."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_28.jpg Avdiivka: Vladimir Mamoshyn, age 65, sits in his wheelchair, his wife died in 2010, now he lives alone his children abandoned him. He resides in the war-torn Avdiivka village, less than a kilometer from the contact line where daily shelling and gunfire can be heard. In 2016, Vladimir lost his leg due to a vascular disease, with poor access to health facilities along with inadequate health care. After having a heart attack a few months later in 2017 he lost the use of his left hand, now he lives in a wheelchair depending on family and friends to help him. Avdiivka: Vladimir Mamoshyn, age 65, sits in his wheelchair, his wife died in 2010, now he lives alone his children abandoned him. He resides in the war-torn Avdiivka village, less than a kilometer from the contact line where daily shelling and gunfire can be heard. In 2016, Vladimir lost his leg due to a vascular disease, with poor access to health facilities along with inadequate health care. After having a heart attack a few months later in 2017 he lost the use of his left hand, now he lives in a wheelchair depending on family and friends to help him. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_30.jpg Raisa Andreyevna,72, waits in line for food aid given out by a local charity in an impoverished area of Donetsk. She works as a janitor which pays her enough to survive. Originally from Russia, she now lives alone. Her children and grandchildren have all moved away to safer areas as part of Donetsk remain dangerous and occasionally gets shelled. “I have told them to move out, I am not afraid to get killed because I have already lived my life but they have children they have to take care of.” Since the beginning of the war she can no longer receive her Ukrainian pension of $50 a month. Raisa Andreyevna,72, waits in line for food aid given out by a local charity in an impoverished area of Donetsk. She works as a janitor which pays her enough to survive. Originally from Russia, she now lives alone. Her children and grandchildren have all moved away to safer areas as part of Donetsk remain dangerous and occasionally gets shelled. “I have told them to move out, I am not afraid to get killed because I have already lived my life but they have children they have to take care of.” Since the beginning of the war she can no longer receive her Ukrainian pension of $50 a month. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_31.jpg Donetsk, People's Republic (DPR) : Galina Mikhailovna , age 79, waits for customers at a second hand market in suffering during a cold winter day in February. She sells used goods that others give to her in the market for pensioners, sits in the snow with some street dogs. She has no pension, she never went to Ukraine to register, claims she can‚Äôt afford to travel to the other side every 57 days which is required by the government. She is in debt so can’t afford to pay for heat and water in her apartment anymore. Donetsk, People's Republic (DPR) : Galina Mikhailovna , age 79, waits for customers at a second hand market in suffering during a cold winter day in February. She sells used goods that others give to her in the market for pensioners, sits in the snow with some street dogs. She has no pension, she never went to Ukraine to register, claims she can‚Äôt afford to travel to the other side every 57 days which is required by the government. She is in debt so can’t afford to pay for heat and water in her apartment anymore. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_23.jpg Mayorsk : An elderly handicapped woman rests after trying to walk the long distance in the cold to cross the border from Donetsk to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine in order to collect her pension. There is no regular wheelchair assistance when crossing the border area. Mayorsk : An elderly handicapped woman rests after trying to walk the long distance in the cold to cross the border from Donetsk to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine in order to collect her pension. There is no regular wheelchair assistance when crossing the border area. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_24.jpg Mayorsk, Ukraine: An elderly handicapped woman slowly makes her way along the border crossing to Donetsk after making the exhausting journey to get her pension in Eastern Ukraine. Mayorsk, Ukraine: An elderly handicapped woman slowly makes her way along the border crossing to Donetsk after making the exhausting journey to get her pension in Eastern Ukraine. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_22.jpg Mayorsk, Eastern Ukraine: An elderly woman is exhausted after waiting in line for hours in the cold to cross the border from Donetsk to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine in order to collect her pension. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Mayorsk, Eastern Ukraine: An elderly woman is exhausted after waiting in line for hours in the cold to cross the border from Donetsk to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine in order to collect her pension. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_33.jpg Katerinovka, Lugansk: Natalia Reshetnyakova, age 83 holds a portrait of her late husband who she was married to for over 50 years. She lives alone now. The only thing left reminding her of her husband is this portrait. The population of Natalia's village comprises less than 300 people. The village is exposed to the sniper’s fire as the contact line is just few kilometers away. Katerinovka, Lugansk: Natalia Reshetnyakova, age 83 holds a portrait of her late husband who she was married to for over 50 years. She lives alone now. The only thing left reminding her of her husband is this portrait. The population of Natalia's village comprises less than 300 people. The village is exposed to the sniper’s fire as the contact line is just few kilometers away. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_35.jpg Avdiivka, Eastern Ukraine: Nikolay age 61, is homeless, his house was destroyed in old Avdiivka. He sleeps in a bunker underground in one of the apartment blocks in the city. He barely survives, has lost his passport, and has no money for medicine, unable to receive a pension after his documents were destroyed in the fire. He collects garbage for recycling to earn a few dollars. Over the winter he got frostbite in his feet causing an infection that won't go away, he suffers in constant pain. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Avdiivka, Eastern Ukraine: Nikolay age 61, is homeless, his house was destroyed in old Avdiivka. He sleeps in a bunker underground in one of the apartment blocks in the city. He barely survives, has lost his passport, and has no money for medicine, unable to receive a pension after his documents were destroyed in the fire. He collects garbage for recycling to earn a few dollars. Over the winter he got frostbite in his feet causing an infection that won't go away, he suffers in constant pain. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_34.jpg Avdiivka, Eastern Ukraine: Nikolay age 61, is homeless, his house was destroyed in old Avdiivka. He collects garbage for recycling to earn a few dollars and sleeps in a bunker underground in one of the apartment blocks in the city. He barely survives, has lost his passport, and has no money for medicine, unable to receive a pension after his documents were destroyed in the fire. Over the winter he got frostbite in his feet causing an infection that won't go away, he suffers in constant pain. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Avdiivka, Eastern Ukraine: Nikolay age 61, is homeless, his house was destroyed in old Avdiivka. He collects garbage for recycling to earn a few dollars and sleeps in a bunker underground in one of the apartment blocks in the city. He barely survives, has lost his passport, and has no money for medicine, unable to receive a pension after his documents were destroyed in the fire. Over the winter he got frostbite in his feet causing an infection that won't go away, he suffers in constant pain. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_43.jpg Vera Cherepovskaya, age 65, rests at the Druzhkovka nursing home, has severe dementia, a social worker brought her to the home, she was abandoned by her family who fled the war-torn region. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Vera Cherepovskaya, age 65, rests at the Druzhkovka nursing home, has severe dementia, a social worker brought her to the home, she was abandoned by her family who fled the war-torn region. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_16.jpg Ivan Ivanovich, age 65, is a double amputee but has no memory of how he lost his legs, he was brought to the Druzhkovka nursing home by healthcare workers. Ivan stated " No legs, No memory - I am not doing well." He was abandoned by his family, his daughter lives in Russia. He used to work as a coal miner. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. Ivan Ivanovich, age 65, is a double amputee but has no memory of how he lost his legs, he was brought to the Druzhkovka nursing home by healthcare workers. Ivan stated " No legs, No memory - I am not doing well." He was abandoned by his family, his daughter lives in Russia. He used to work as a coal miner. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_38.jpg Zolote, Luhansk region: Marina Zelenina, 64, lives alone. She is suffering from the lung disability and is barely able to walk around her small apartment. Her neighbor does shopping for her. A local nurse, Elena visits a few times per week to provide her with medical assistance scarce in this area situated few kilometers away from fighting. Her elderly mother died from a heart attack after she had undergone severe shock caused by the shelling at the height of the conflict. Marina's family left the city looking for employment and safety. The woman has not seen them since. Now she talks with them over Skype. Zolote, Luhansk region: Marina Zelenina, 64, lives alone. She is suffering from the lung disability and is barely able to walk around her small apartment. Her neighbor does shopping for her. A local nurse, Elena visits a few times per week to provide her with medical assistance scarce in this area situated few kilometers away from fighting. Her elderly mother died from a heart attack after she had undergone severe shock caused by the shelling at the height of the conflict. Marina's family left the city looking for employment and safety. The woman has not seen them since. Now she talks with them over Skype. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_47.jpg Nadezhda Borisovna, age 76, from Dobropolye, died in the nursing home from diabetes, she suffered from obesity. The body had to stay in a room with two other sick elderly women, untouched for about 2 days, as nursing home has no resources to deliver it to the morgue and the healthcare institution from her native town delays to pick her body up. Her neighbors took the responsibility to organize a funeral service for her as she has no relatives. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Nadezhda Borisovna, age 76, from Dobropolye, died in the nursing home from diabetes, she suffered from obesity. The body had to stay in a room with two other sick elderly women, untouched for about 2 days, as nursing home has no resources to deliver it to the morgue and the healthcare institution from her native town delays to pick her body up. Her neighbors took the responsibility to organize a funeral service for her as she has no relatives. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_48.jpg Nadezhda Borisovna, age 76, from Dobropolye, died in the nursing home from diabetes and obesity. The body has to stay in the room with two other sick elderly women, untouched for about 2 days, as nursing home has no resources to deliver it to the morgue and the healthcare institution from her native town delays to pick her body up. Her neighbors took the responsibility to organize a funeral service for her as she has no relatives. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Nadezhda Borisovna, age 76, from Dobropolye, died in the nursing home from diabetes and obesity. The body has to stay in the room with two other sick elderly women, untouched for about 2 days, as nursing home has no resources to deliver it to the morgue and the healthcare institution from her native town delays to pick her body up. Her neighbors took the responsibility to organize a funeral service for her as she has no relatives. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_49.jpg A woman lights candles during a Sunday service at a church in Donetsk. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. A woman lights candles during a Sunday service at a church in Donetsk. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderlypaulabronstein_50.jpg Avdiivka: Nadezhda Iosipovna, age 75, mourns the loss of her grandson who died recently as she visits his grave. Nadezhda also suffered the loss of other men in her family including her husband who died of cancer. Her daughter lives on the other side of the contact line in Donetsk city - stronghold of pro-Russia separatists so she rarely gets to see her and live alone in war-torn Avdiivka. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Avdiivka: Nadezhda Iosipovna, age 75, mourns the loss of her grandson who died recently as she visits his grave. Nadezhda also suffered the loss of other men in her family including her husband who died of cancer. Her daughter lives on the other side of the contact line in Donetsk city - stronghold of pro-Russia separatists so she rarely gets to see her and live alone in war-torn Avdiivka. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://paulaphoto.com/ukraine-ballet:-dance-during-wartime monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/balletlviv_lowres001.jpg 775823743 LVIV, UKRAINE - Ballet dancers are seen onstage before the ballet performance Giselle begins June 10, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. The Lviv National Opera house started performances last month for both ballet and opera.The bomb shelter can only hold 300 people so tickets are limited incase a siren goes off during the performance. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/balletlviv_lowres002.jpg 775823743 LVIV, UKRAINE - Ballet dancers are seen onstage during the performance of Giselle on June 10, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. The Lviv National Opera house started performances last month for both ballet and opera.The bomb shelter can only hold 300 people so tickets are limited incase a siren goes off during the performance. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/balletlviv_lowres003.jpg 775823743 LVIV, UKRAINE - Ballet dancers are seen onstage during the performance of Giselle on June 10, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. The Lviv National Opera house started performances last month for both ballet and opera.The bomb shelter can only hold 300 people so tickets are limited incase a siren goes off during the performance. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/balletlviv_lowres004.jpg 775823743 LVIV, UKRAINE - Ballet dancers enjoy some laughter getting ready for their upcoming performance of Giselle June 10, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. The Lviv National Opera house started performances last month for both ballet and opera.The bomb shelter can only hold 300 people so tickets are limited incase a siren goes off during the performance. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/balletlviv_lowres005.jpg 775823743 LVIV, UKRAINE - Ballet dancer Romana Pumanska puts on makeup backstage for the performance of Giselle June 10, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. 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Paula Bronsteinfor Der Spiegel / Getty Images Reportage https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/burmawebsite005a.jpg BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/burmawebsite003.jpg BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/burmawebsite006.jpg BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/rohingya_bronstein004.jpg SITTWE - NOV 9: Rohingya from Aung Mingalar are escorted by Burmese police in a truck heading back to their remote community after being allowed to shop at the IDP camp market. There are no facilities in the Aung Mingalar area so many depend on this weekly trip.(Paula Bronstein for The Washington Post via Getty Images) SITTWE - NOV 9: Rohingya from Aung Mingalar are escorted by Burmese police in a truck heading back to their remote community after being allowed to shop at the IDP camp market. There are no facilities in the Aung Mingalar area so many depend on this weekly trip.(Paula Bronstein for The Washington Post via Getty Images) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/rohingya_bronstein002.jpg MAYEBON - NOV 8: Overall of the Mayebon IDP camp where registration has taken place forcing the residents of the camp to list themselves as Bengali not Rohingya. The new policy is called the Rakhine Action Plan. Paula Bronstein for The Washington Post MAYEBON - NOV 8: Overall of the Mayebon IDP camp where registration has taken place forcing the residents of the camp to list themselves as Bengali not Rohingya. The new policy is called the Rakhine Action Plan. Paula Bronstein for The Washington Post https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/rohingya_bronstein006.jpg SITTWE - MARCH 6: Rahana Bagum, 11, carries mud from the sea used for construction at the IDP camp. In 2012, sectarian violence between the Rohingya, who are Muslim and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists killed at least 200 people and made 140,000 homeless, most of them are Rohingya. SITTWE - MARCH 6: Rahana Bagum, 11, carries mud from the sea used for construction at the IDP camp. In 2012, sectarian violence between the Rohingya, who are Muslim and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists killed at least 200 people and made 140,000 homeless, most of them are Rohingya. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/rohingya_bronstein005.jpg MAYEBON - NOV 8: Albella (left) Abdul Hamid,40(center) and Moria Katu (right) look through the window of a thatched hut at the Mayebon IDP camp where registration has taken place forcing the residents of the camp to list themselves as Bengali not Rohingya. The new policy is called the Rakhine Action Plan. (Paula Bronstein for The Washington Post) MAYEBON - NOV 8: Albella (left) Abdul Hamid,40(center) and Moria Katu (right) look through the window of a thatched hut at the Mayebon IDP camp where registration has taken place forcing the residents of the camp to list themselves as Bengali not Rohingya. The new policy is called the Rakhine Action Plan. (Paula Bronstein for The Washington Post) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/rohingya_bronstein018.jpg SITTWE - MARCH 6: At a local mosque men and boys join in Friday prayer, a very important weekly practice for the Muslim Rohingya at the IDP camp. In 2012, sectarian violence between the Rohingya, who are Muslim and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists killed at least 200 people and made 140,000 homeless, most of them are Rohingya. SITTWE - MARCH 6: At a local mosque men and boys join in Friday prayer, a very important weekly practice for the Muslim Rohingya at the IDP camp. In 2012, sectarian violence between the Rohingya, who are Muslim and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists killed at least 200 people and made 140,000 homeless, most of them are Rohingya. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/burmawebsite009.jpg BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/burmawebsite007.jpg BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/paula_bronstein_rohingya006.jpg Women and children wait in line for medical care at the makeshift Aung Clinic which serves many Rohingya with a few dedicated staff giving free medical care. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) Women and children wait in line for medical care at the makeshift Aung Clinic which serves many Rohingya with a few dedicated staff giving free medical care. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/rohingya_bronstein014.jpg SITTWE - NOV 9: At the Baw Du Pha IDP camp Mosboba Hatu age 60, is held by her daughter Roshida,35. According to the family, Mosboba Hatu has not eaten solid food in a few weeks, she is only taking in fluids. Her daughter says she has TB but there has been no final tests done to prove her illness. The family claims that they don\'t have the money to travel to the clinic to have the proper medical tests done. Health care continues to be an ongoing problem for the Rohingya as most can only get just basic treatment, for many their illness gets worse and in some cases become serious. Paula Bronstein for The Washington Post SITTWE - NOV 9: At the Baw Du Pha IDP camp Mosboba Hatu age 60, is held by her daughter Roshida,35. According to the family, Mosboba Hatu has not eaten solid food in a few weeks, she is only taking in fluids. Her daughter says she has TB but there has been no final tests done to prove her illness. The family claims that they don\'t have the money to travel to the clinic to have the proper medical tests done. Health care continues to be an ongoing problem for the Rohingya as most can only get just basic treatment, for many their illness gets worse and in some cases become serious. Paula Bronstein for The Washington Post https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/burmawebsite010.jpg BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/rohingya_bronstein017.jpg Rohingya girls study at a religious school teaching daily classes in Islamic studies at the Say Tha Mar Gyi IDP camp. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) Rohingya girls study at a religious school teaching daily classes in Islamic studies at the Say Tha Mar Gyi IDP camp. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/burmawebsite004.jpg BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/paula_bronstein_rohingya013.jpg Sara Katu looks out from her tent as the monsoon rains fall during the start of the rainy season at the Thay Chaung camp. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) Sara Katu looks out from her tent as the monsoon rains fall during the start of the rainy season at the Thay Chaung camp. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/paula_bronstein_rohingya022.jpg A boy covers himself from the rain as he waits for medical care outside the makeshift Aung Clinic which serves many Rohingya with a few dedicated staff giving free medical care. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) A boy covers himself from the rain as he waits for medical care outside the makeshift Aung Clinic which serves many Rohingya with a few dedicated staff giving free medical care. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/burmawebsite017.jpg BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View BURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICS by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/paula_bronstein_rohingya028.jpg Isslam looks out of his living quarters along side his daughter Muryar Katu,9, at the Say Tha Mar Gyi IDP camp. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) Isslam looks out of his living quarters along side his daughter Muryar Katu,9, at the Say Tha Mar Gyi IDP camp. ( Photo by Paula Bronstein/ For The Washington Post ) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/rohingya_bronstein008.jpg SITTWE - NOV 8: Mohammed Nur Amin takes a break from working on an open wooden boat at the Ohn Taw Shi, a fishing village at the Rohingya IDP camp outside of Sittwe. Many Rohingya talk of fleeing, some want to go to the Malaysia. Paula Bronstein for The Washington Post SITTWE - NOV 8: Mohammed Nur Amin takes a break from working on an open wooden boat at the Ohn Taw Shi, a fishing village at the Rohingya IDP camp outside of Sittwe. Many Rohingya talk of fleeing, some want to go to the Malaysia. 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Water-throwing is the distinguishing feature of this important festival during the first four days. Thingyan is similar to other new year festivities seen in Southeast Asian countries such as Laos, Cambodia and Songkran in Thailand. 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The traditional Chinese art form involving music, singing, martial arts and acting has a history of more than 500 years. There are about 30 members working with the group doing specials shows all week to celebrate the Chinese New year. The Chinese opera is popular in many parts of China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Macau .(Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/137845146_pb007opera.jpg 137845146@pb001opera.jpg BANGKOK, THAILAND - JANUARY 25: An actress with the Lao Yi Lai Heng Chinese opera troupe waits to go onstage performing the Teochew (Chaozhou) opera at the Plub Plachai temple on January 25, 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. The traditional Chinese art form involving music, singing, martial arts and acting has a history of more than 500 years. There are about 30 members working with the group doing specials shows all week to celebrate the Chinese New year. 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In the past few months the region's summer captiol has witnessed the biggest pro-independence demonstrations since the separatist insurgency erupted in 1989. The protests have triggered a heavy crackdown by Indian security forces including many strict curfews and with that tourist numbers have dropped significantly. Continous disturbances have brought down hotel occupancy from 100 percent in May 2008 to almost zero in September 2008," according to government statements. 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Millions of Afghans live in informal settlements occupied without a formal deed, on land with unclear legal ownership. This lack of a functioning land management system, Afghan and international experts say, looms as one of the most serious obstacles to the country’s economic development. Paula Bronstein/ The Wall Street Journal KABUL- AFGHANISTAN: NOV 21: Eid Mohammad, 70 stands on the balcony overlooking the hills of Kabul. Millions of Afghans live in informal settlements occupied without a formal deed, on land with unclear legal ownership. This lack of a functioning land management system, Afghan and international experts say, looms as one of the most serious obstacles to the country’s economic development. Paula Bronstein/ The Wall Street Journal https://paulaphoto.com/agent-orange--vietnams-legacy monthly 0.8 https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_m3l5nt_agentorangewebsite001_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_x1qqsa_agentorangewebsite002_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_lyk6d8_agentorangewebsite003_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_8i3ypi_agentorangewebsite004_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_g2x1s9_agentorangewebsite005_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_fb3zeg_agentorangewebsite006_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_0a5zhd_agentorangewebsite007_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_m4opq9_agentorangewebsite008_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_bm8gwn_agentorangewebsite009_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_tvnjxp_agentorangewebsite010_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_zn3m8o_agentorangewebsite011_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_nue3fo_agentorangewebsite012_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_j2nfv1_agentorangewebsite013_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_bh3wjv_agentorangewebsite014_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_42rypf_agentorangewebsite015_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_2wspge_agentorangewebsite016_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://storage.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/vy1xujb1_ugq48j65_96bowh_agentorangewebsite017_thumb.jpg Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA Paula Bronstein Photojournalist Suffering in Silence With over three decades years after the war in Vietnam, a battle is still being fought to help people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Many of the families living in the remote villages have little access to medical care and don't even understand the medical term for the disability that their children have had since birth. They only know that the herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam war called Agent orange caused this and the government gives monthly support of about $8 dollars per handicapped individual . Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam in an attempt to kill vegetation that hid the enemy. Much of it contained the toxic nerve gas called dioxin. After so many years has past, studies have stated that lingering health and environmental problems effected an estimated 3 million Vietnamese, including 150,000 children. As a result an increased number of Vietnamese children have been born with severe birth defects and Down syndrome since the war ended in 1975.   COVERING THE WORLDA DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINEAFGHANISTAN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR - THE BOOKUKRAINE'S ELDERLY: LEFT BEHIND BY WARUKRAINE BALLET: DANCE DURING WARTIMEROHINGYA: STATELESS AND UNWANTEDGAZA: CRIPPLED FOR LIFELESBOS: THE REFUGEE MIGRATIONSILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR FEMALE MARINES IN AFGHANISTANACID VIOLENCE: STOLEN FACESCLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL DISASTERSDISPLACED BY WAR SOUTH SUDAN MONGOLIA: CHANGING LANDSCAPEBHUTAN: THE KING AND HIS PEOPLECORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL - MongoliaBURMA: TURMOIL AND POLITICSINDONESIA'S MENTAL HEALTH: Living In ChainsAbout PaulaUkraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By ConflictBook ReviewsTravel: Documenting AsiaThailandPolitical TurmoilAgent Orange: Vietnam's Legacy Pakistan Blood and BhuttoPakistan floodsThe DisplacedContact Exhibitions @Paula Bronstein 2015. Site design © 2010-2025 Neon Sky Creative Media https://paulaphoto.com/ukraine's-war:-elderly-lives-frozen-by-conflict monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/TITLE_UKRAINE.jpg Ukraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By Conflict | Paula Bronstein Photojournalist View Ukraine's War: Elderly Lives Frozen By Conflict by Paula Bronstein Photojournalist. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_headon_001.jpg 775500469_coronavirustravelpb001.jpg Avdiivka : A portrait of an elderly woman named Marina Marchenko who was a teacher, painted by an Australian artist is seen on a war torn building, abandoned in Avdiivka. After more than six years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world.BANGKOK - MARCH : in Taipei, Taiwan on March 19, 2020. According to CDC current totals the Coronavirus ( COVID-19) has now effected 235,939 globally, killing 9,874. It has spread to 157 countries. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images ) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronstein001.jpg A war-torn cemetery full of tombstones that have been hit by gunfire at the devastated neighborhood near the Donetsk airport. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. A war-torn cemetery full of tombstones that have been hit by gunfire at the devastated neighborhood near the Donetsk airport. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres06.jpg Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Abandoned, destroyed homes are seen in Opytne a village too close to the front line of the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Abandoned, destroyed homes are seen in Opytne a village too close to the front line of the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres16.jpg Donetsk, People's Republic (DPR) : Galina Mikhailovna , age 79, waits for customers at a second hand market in suffering during a cold winter day in February. She sells used goods that others give to her in the market for pensioners, sits in the snow with some street dogs. She has no pension, she never went to Ukraine to register, claims she can‚Äôt afford to travel to the other side every 57 days which is required by the government. She is in debt so can‚Äôt afford to pay for heat and water in her apartment anymore. Donetsk, People's Republic (DPR) : Galina Mikhailovna , age 79, waits for customers at a second hand market in suffering during a cold winter day in February. She sells used goods that others give to her in the market for pensioners, sits in the snow with some street dogs. She has no pension, she never went to Ukraine to register, claims she can‚Äôt afford to travel to the other side every 57 days which is required by the government. She is in debt so can‚Äôt afford to pay for heat and water in her apartment anymore. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres31.jpg Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya Gorpynych, age 76, lives alone. She holds new chicks delivered by ICRC as part of a humanitarian aid service for elderly that live alone. It also allows them to raise chickens for some income. She speaks with tears in her eyes when talking about the death of her son. Victor,48 was killed due to the war in 2016, he was fatally injured by shelling that hit the home. He died in her hands. Her husband, died in the same year from a heart attack from extreme stress of living too close to the front line. Mariya refuses to leave her village because her family are buried there."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya Gorpynych, age 76, lives alone. She holds new chicks delivered by ICRC as part of a humanitarian aid service for elderly that live alone. It also allows them to raise chickens for some income. She speaks with tears in her eyes when talking about the death of her son. Victor,48 was killed due to the war in 2016, he was fatally injured by shelling that hit the home. He died in her hands. Her husband, died in the same year from a heart attack from extreme stress of living too close to the front line. Mariya refuses to leave her village because her family are buried there."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres40.jpg Aleksandra Losipovna, age 91, from Kramatorsk, was brought to the nursing home by her only relative, her grandson, because she lives alone and he is afraid she can harm herself, there has been no medical treatment provided besides painkillers. Aleksandra passed away in the nursing home in May. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Aleksandra Losipovna, age 91, from Kramatorsk, was brought to the nursing home by her only relative, her grandson, because she lives alone and he is afraid she can harm herself, there has been no medical treatment provided besides painkillers. Aleksandra passed away in the nursing home in May. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres18.jpg Mayorsk, Eastern Ukraine : An elderly handicapped woman slowly makes her way along the border crossing to Donetsk , People's Republic (DPR) after making the exhausting journey to get her pension in Eastern Ukraine. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Mayorsk, Eastern Ukraine : An elderly handicapped woman slowly makes her way along the border crossing to Donetsk , People's Republic (DPR) after making the exhausting journey to get her pension in Eastern Ukraine. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres20.jpg Mayorsk, Eastern Ukraine: An elderly woman is exhausted after waiting in line for hours in the cold to cross the border from Donetsk to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine in order to collect her pension. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Mayorsk, Eastern Ukraine: An elderly woman is exhausted after waiting in line for hours in the cold to cross the border from Donetsk to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine in order to collect her pension. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres15.jpg Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR): Antonina Kondratiyevna, 77, stands in her neighbor's home, destroyed during heavy battles between Ukrainian army and pro-Russian militia in 2014-2015. She and her elderly sister are among few residents living in the devastated neighborhood near Donetsk airport. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR): Antonina Kondratiyevna, 77, stands in her neighbor's home, destroyed during heavy battles between Ukrainian army and pro-Russian militia in 2014-2015. She and her elderly sister are among few residents living in the devastated neighborhood near Donetsk airport. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronstein002.jpg Raisa Andreyevna,72, walks home from a local market area which was destroyed back in 2015. She works as a janitor which pays her enough to survive. Originally from Russia, she now lives alone. Her children and grandchildren have all moved away to safer areas as part of Donetsk remain dangerous and occasionally gets shelled. ‚ÄúI have told them to move out, I am not afraid to get killed because I have already lived my life but they have children they have to take care of.‚Äù Since the beginning of the war she can no longer receive her Ukrainian pension of $50 a month. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Raisa Andreyevna,72, walks home from a local market area which was destroyed back in 2015. She works as a janitor which pays her enough to survive. Originally from Russia, she now lives alone. Her children and grandchildren have all moved away to safer areas as part of Donetsk remain dangerous and occasionally gets shelled. ‚ÄúI have told them to move out, I am not afraid to get killed because I have already lived my life but they have children they have to take care of.‚Äù Since the beginning of the war she can no longer receive her Ukrainian pension of $50 a month. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres08.jpg Chasov Yar, Donetsk region: Lyudmila Yevgenievna, age 64 from Chasov Yar is seen by windows at All her relatives have died and she was left alone and couldn't take care of the household and herself. The owner of the nursing home brings her to the church by car every Sunday and she stays for 3-hour service. Evgeniy Tkachev has founded the elderly care facility with his own money. He bought two private houses across the street from each other. One house is for elderly women, another for men. "I evacuate elderly people from the stress affect by the conflict. "These people have nowhere to go. They have relatives who do not care about them. They can not stay at the state-run nursing home either". 50% of the elderly here do not receive their pensions due to the loss of the documents. Chasov Yar, Donetsk region: Lyudmila Yevgenievna, age 64 from Chasov Yar is seen by windows at All her relatives have died and she was left alone and couldn't take care of the household and herself. The owner of the nursing home brings her to the church by car every Sunday and she stays for 3-hour service. Evgeniy Tkachev has founded the elderly care facility with his own money. He bought two private houses across the street from each other. One house is for elderly women, another for men. "I evacuate elderly people from the stress affect by the conflict. "These people have nowhere to go. They have relatives who do not care about them. They can not stay at the state-run nursing home either". 50% of the elderly here do not receive their pensions due to the loss of the documents. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres10.jpg Avdiivka: Vladimir Mamoshyn, age 65, sits in his wheelchair, his wife died in 2010, now he lives alone, his children abandoned him. He resides in the war-torn Avdiivka village, less than a kilometer from the contact line where daily shelling and gunfire can be heard. In 2016, Vladimir lost his leg due to a vascular disease, with poor access to health facilities along with inadequate health care. After having a heart attack a few months later in 2017 he lost the use of his left hand, now he lives in a wheelchair depending on family and friends to help him. Avdiivka: Vladimir Mamoshyn, age 65, sits in his wheelchair, his wife died in 2010, now he lives alone, his children abandoned him. He resides in the war-torn Avdiivka village, less than a kilometer from the contact line where daily shelling and gunfire can be heard. In 2016, Vladimir lost his leg due to a vascular disease, with poor access to health facilities along with inadequate health care. After having a heart attack a few months later in 2017 he lost the use of his left hand, now he lives in a wheelchair depending on family and friends to help him. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronstein003.jpg Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich live in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists, too close to the contact line. Raisa says that tanks were driving in front of their home in the first year of the war, now they have learned to live with the sound of shelling and gunfire daily. "We were sitting last home, screaming at them not to kill us!" Riasa said. " Her husband was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav suffers from dementia now along with his other medical issues. " I have to treat him as a child, I am so sorry that he is like this now, I am afraid to leave him even for a moment.;" Raisa stated. Their two sons live on the other side of the contact line unable to visit often because of the war. Their village, Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich live in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists, too close to the contact line. Raisa says that tanks were driving in front of their home in the first year of the war, now they have learned to live with the sound of shelling and gunfire daily. "We were sitting last home, screaming at them not to kill us!" Riasa said. " Her husband was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav suffers from dementia now along with his other medical issues. " I have to treat him as a child, I am so sorry that he is like this now, I am afraid to leave him even for a moment.;" Raisa stated. Their two sons live on the other side of the contact line unable to visit often because of the war. Their village, Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres26.jpg Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 can't afford new shoes so she wears the same old slippers every day. Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich live in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists, too close to the contact line. Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 can't afford new shoes so she wears the same old slippers every day. Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich live in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists, too close to the contact line. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronstein007.jpg Varvara Arkhipovna, age 81 lives alone on a small pension in Katerinovka, Lugansk region which has a population of less than 300 people as the village is exposed to the sniper fire as the contact line lays just over the hill a few kilometers away. Varvara lives with a puppy that was recently given to her by a health worker in order to improve her mental health as she suffers from depression and high blood pressure. Her family lives in Pervomaisk, a village in Lugansk region on the other side of the front line. She hasn’t been able to see her 3 grandchildren in 4 years – since the beginning of the war even though they live only 3 kilometers away. Varvara Arkhipovna, age 81 lives alone on a small pension in Katerinovka, Lugansk region which has a population of less than 300 people as the village is exposed to the sniper fire as the contact line lays just over the hill a few kilometers away. Varvara lives with a puppy that was recently given to her by a health worker in order to improve her mental health as she suffers from depression and high blood pressure. Her family lives in Pervomaisk, a village in Lugansk region on the other side of the front line. She hasn’t been able to see her 3 grandchildren in 4 years – since the beginning of the war even though they live only 3 kilometers away. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres24.jpg Opytne: Donetsk region: Stanislav Vasilyevich was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav also suffers from dementia along with his other medical issues. Their village, Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. Opytne: Donetsk region: Stanislav Vasilyevich was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav also suffers from dementia along with his other medical issues. Their village, Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronstein004.jpg Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya Gorpynych, age 76, lives alone. She speaks with tears in her eyes while talking about the death of her son. Victor,48 was killed due to the war in 2016, he was fatally injured by shelling that hit the home. He died in her hands. Her husband, died in the same year from a heart attack from extreme stress of living too close to the front line. Mariya refuses to leave her village because her family are buried there."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya Gorpynych, age 76, lives alone. She speaks with tears in her eyes while talking about the death of her son. Victor,48 was killed due to the war in 2016, he was fatally injured by shelling that hit the home. He died in her hands. Her husband, died in the same year from a heart attack from extreme stress of living too close to the front line. Mariya refuses to leave her village because her family are buried there."I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here." "I got used to the continued shelling." Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres32.jpg Katerinovka, Lugansk: Natalia Reshetnyakova, age 83 holds a portrait of her late husband who she was married to for over 50 years. She lives alone now. The only thing left reminding her of her husband is this portrait. The population of Natalia's village comprises less than 300 people. The village is exposed to the sniper’s fire as the contact line is just few kilometers away. Katerinovka, Lugansk: Natalia Reshetnyakova, age 83 holds a portrait of her late husband who she was married to for over 50 years. She lives alone now. The only thing left reminding her of her husband is this portrait. The population of Natalia's village comprises less than 300 people. The village is exposed to the sniper’s fire as the contact line is just few kilometers away. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronstein008.jpg Avdiivika: Elena Parshyna,age 66, she is blind and lives alone now sits on her bed with her dog who now has passed away along with her husband who had a heart attack in April and her son who also died late in 2017 from the same fate. Both her husband and her son were buried in a small cemetery that is mined and too close to the military positions so she never can go visit the graves. The home was shelled last year, still damaged but Elena refuses to leave. Her remaining family - daughter and a sister all live on the other side of the contact line in Makeyevka city controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Avdiivika: Elena Parshyna,age 66, she is blind and lives alone now sits on her bed with her dog who now has passed away along with her husband who had a heart attack in April and her son who also died late in 2017 from the same fate. Both her husband and her son were buried in a small cemetery that is mined and too close to the military positions so she never can go visit the graves. The home was shelled last year, still damaged but Elena refuses to leave. Her remaining family - daughter and a sister all live on the other side of the contact line in Makeyevka city controlled by pro-Russian separatists. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_headon_014.jpg 775500469_coronavirustravelpb001.jpg Avdiivika: Elena Parshyna,age 66, is blind and lives alone,feeling depressed and lonely after her husband had a heart attack in April. She says that she cries often now. Her son also died late in 2017 from the same fate. To make matter worse, Both were buried in a small cemetery that is mined and now too close to the military positions so she never can go visit the graves. The home was shelled last year, still damaged but Elena refuses to leave. Her remaining family - daughter and a sister all live on the other side of the contact line in Makeyevka city controlled by pro-Russian separatists. BANGKOK - MARCH : in Taipei, Taiwan on March 19, 2020. According to CDC current totals the Coronavirus ( COVID-19) has now effected 235,939 globally, killing 9,874. It has spread to 157 countries. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images ) https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres36.jpg Druzhkovka, Donetsk region: Sergey Nikitin fell down after having had a stroke, he is seen resting at the Druzhkovka nursing home. As he has dementia, his family abandoned him as they moved to safer areas away from the conflict zone. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Druzhkovka, Donetsk region: Sergey Nikitin fell down after having had a stroke, he is seen resting at the Druzhkovka nursing home. As he has dementia, his family abandoned him as they moved to safer areas away from the conflict zone. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres14.jpg Raisa Andreyevna,72, waits in line for food aid given out by a local charity in an impoverished area of Donetsk. She works as a janitor which pays her enough to survive. Originally from Russia, she now lives alone. Her children and grandchildren have all moved away to safer areas as part of Donetsk remain dangerous and occasionally gets shelled. “I have told them to move out, I am not afraid to get killed because I have already lived my life but they have children they have to take care of.” Since the beginning of the war she can no longer receive her Ukrainian pension of $50 a month. Raisa Andreyevna,72, waits in line for food aid given out by a local charity in an impoverished area of Donetsk. She works as a janitor which pays her enough to survive. Originally from Russia, she now lives alone. Her children and grandchildren have all moved away to safer areas as part of Donetsk remain dangerous and occasionally gets shelled. “I have told them to move out, I am not afraid to get killed because I have already lived my life but they have children they have to take care of.” Since the beginning of the war she can no longer receive her Ukrainian pension of $50 a month. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres03.jpg An elderly woman is seen reflected in the window of a streetcar in Donetsk. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. An elderly woman is seen reflected in the window of a streetcar in Donetsk. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres39.jpg Mayorsk, Donetsk region Antonina Malna, age 84, gets cared for by a local nurse, she had a stroke a few months ago and remains in a comatose state while her daughter Zoya watches. The nearest hospital is 25 km away and cannot afford to provide 24h care for patients like Antonina due to the lack of medical staff. Mayorsk is right on the border area in Eastern Ukraine, a very difficult location for the elderly to be unless they have medical and family support. Mayorsk, Donetsk region Antonina Malna, age 84, gets cared for by a local nurse, she had a stroke a few months ago and remains in a comatose state while her daughter Zoya watches. The nearest hospital is 25 km away and cannot afford to provide 24h care for patients like Antonina due to the lack of medical staff. Mayorsk is right on the border area in Eastern Ukraine, a very difficult location for the elderly to be unless they have medical and family support. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres33.jpg Valentina Iosipovna, age 76 lays in bed waiting for staff to feed her at the Druzhkovka nursing home. Valentina Iosipovna, age 76 lays in bed waiting for staff to feed her at the Druzhkovka nursing home. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres30.jpg Ivan Ivanovich, age 65, is a double amputee but has no memory of how he lost his legs, he was brought to the Druzhkovka nursing home by healthcare workers, abandoned by his family, his daughter lives in Russia. He used to work as a coal miner. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. Ivan Ivanovich, age 65, is a double amputee but has no memory of how he lost his legs, he was brought to the Druzhkovka nursing home by healthcare workers, abandoned by his family, his daughter lives in Russia. He used to work as a coal miner. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres45.jpg Mariya Ivanovna, age 85 has been living in a bomb shelter for 4 years. Her pension is the only source of income for the whole family. She has suffered two strokes. “I remember the WW2. There is no difference between these two wars. Back then we had nothing to eat and nowhere to hide.”“It's very difficult to call an ambulance. They don't come because of the shelling.” After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Mariya Ivanovna, age 85 has been living in a bomb shelter for 4 years. Her pension is the only source of income for the whole family. She has suffered two strokes. “I remember the WW2. There is no difference between these two wars. Back then we had nothing to eat and nowhere to hide.”“It's very difficult to call an ambulance. They don't come because of the shelling.” After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres27.jpg Valentina Streltsova, age 68, lost her toes due to frostbite. She was found by ICRC, abandoned, was dropped off at the Druzhkovka nursing home. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Valentina Streltsova, age 68, lost her toes due to frostbite. She was found by ICRC, abandoned, was dropped off at the Druzhkovka nursing home. The nursing home facility takes care of many elderly who are left behind, and poverty stricken due to the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres38.jpg Vera Cherepovskaya, age 65, rests at the Druzhkovka nursing home, has severe dementia, a social worker brought her to the home, she was abandoned by her family who fled the war-torn region. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Vera Cherepovskaya, age 65, rests at the Druzhkovka nursing home, has severe dementia, a social worker brought her to the home, she was abandoned by her family who fled the war-torn region. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres41.jpg Vera Alekseyevna, age 78 is without any real family support after she lost her son and her husband last year, she has been living in the bomb shelter since 2014. Her heath has deteriorated with high blood pressure and a weak heart. Her house is close to the contact line and she is afraid to stay in her apartment on the 5th floor.“I am afraid that I need to run from the fifth floor if the shelling starts.” “If there is no shelling, I run home to take a shower.” “It would be much easier if I received both Ukrainian and DPR pension. But I receive only local one.” She gets 3000 rubles a month. Petrovsky district of Donetsk: The bunker ( bomb shelter) houses on average 6-8 people, mostly elderly women who say they can't go back to their homes as the contact line lays just few kilometers away from the bomb shelter that used to belong to an old coal mine. In 2014, there were 300 people living there during the height of the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Vera Alekseyevna, age 78 is without any real family support after she lost her son and her husband last year, she has been living in the bomb shelter since 2014. Her heath has deteriorated with high blood pressure and a weak heart. Her house is close to the contact line and she is afraid to stay in her apartment on the 5th floor.“I am afraid that I need to run from the fifth floor if the shelling starts.” “If there is no shelling, I run home to take a shower.” “It would be much easier if I received both Ukrainian and DPR pension. But I receive only local one.” She gets 3000 rubles a month. Petrovsky district of Donetsk: The bunker ( bomb shelter) houses on average 6-8 people, mostly elderly women who say they can't go back to their homes as the contact line lays just few kilometers away from the bomb shelter that used to belong to an old coal mine. In 2014, there were 300 people living there during the height of the war. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres50.jpg Avdiivka, Eastern Ukraine: Nikolay age 61, is homeless, his house was destroyed in old Avdiivka. He sleeps in a bunker underground in one of the apartment blocks in the city. He barely survives, has lost his passport, and has no money for medicine, unable to receive a pension after his documents were destroyed in the fire. He collects garbage for recycling to earn a few dollars. Over the winter he got frostbite in his feet causing an infection that won't go away, he suffers in constant pain. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Avdiivka, Eastern Ukraine: Nikolay age 61, is homeless, his house was destroyed in old Avdiivka. He sleeps in a bunker underground in one of the apartment blocks in the city. He barely survives, has lost his passport, and has no money for medicine, unable to receive a pension after his documents were destroyed in the fire. He collects garbage for recycling to earn a few dollars. Over the winter he got frostbite in his feet causing an infection that won't go away, he suffers in constant pain. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres49.jpg Avdiivka, Eastern Ukraine: Nikolay age 61, is homeless, his house was destroyed in old Avdiivka. He collects garbage for recycling to earn a few dollars and sleeps in a bunker underground in one of the apartment blocks in the city. He barely survives, has lost his passport, and has no money for medicine, unable to receive a pension after his documents were destroyed in the fire. Over the winter he got frostbite in his feet causing an infection that won't go away, he suffers in constant pain. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Avdiivka, Eastern Ukraine: Nikolay age 61, is homeless, his house was destroyed in old Avdiivka. He collects garbage for recycling to earn a few dollars and sleeps in a bunker underground in one of the apartment blocks in the city. He barely survives, has lost his passport, and has no money for medicine, unable to receive a pension after his documents were destroyed in the fire. Over the winter he got frostbite in his feet causing an infection that won't go away, he suffers in constant pain. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres52.jpg Nadezhda Borisovna, age 76, from Dobropolye, died in the nursing home from diabetes, she suffered from obesity. The body had to stay in a room with two other sick elderly women, untouched for about 2 days, as nursing home has no resources to deliver it to the morgue and the healthcare institution from her native town delays to pick her body up. Her neighbors took the responsibility to organize a funeral service for her as she has no relatives. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Nadezhda Borisovna, age 76, from Dobropolye, died in the nursing home from diabetes, she suffered from obesity. The body had to stay in a room with two other sick elderly women, untouched for about 2 days, as nursing home has no resources to deliver it to the morgue and the healthcare institution from her native town delays to pick her body up. Her neighbors took the responsibility to organize a funeral service for her as she has no relatives. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres53.jpg Nadezhda Borisovna, age 76, from Dobropolye, died in the nursing home from diabetes and obesity. The body has to stay in the room with two other sick elderly women, untouched for about 2 days, as nursing home has no resources to deliver it to the morgue and the healthcare institution from her native town delays to pick her body up. Her neighbors took the responsibility to organize a funeral service for her as she has no relatives. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Nadezhda Borisovna, age 76, from Dobropolye, died in the nursing home from diabetes and obesity. The body has to stay in the room with two other sick elderly women, untouched for about 2 days, as nursing home has no resources to deliver it to the morgue and the healthcare institution from her native town delays to pick her body up. Her neighbors took the responsibility to organize a funeral service for her as she has no relatives. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres54.jpg A woman lights candles during a Sunday service at a church in Donetsk. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. A woman lights candles during a Sunday service at a church in Donetsk. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/51af36d8cf69c/images/ukraine_elderly_bronsteinlowres43.jpg Avdiivka: Nadezh Losipovna, age 75, mourns the loss of her grandson Igor, who died a few weeks ago as she visits his grave with her son Nicolay. Nadezhda also suffered the loss of other men in her family including her husband who died of cancer. Her daughter lives on the other side of the contact line in Donetsk city - stronghold of pro-Russia separatists so she rarely gets to see her and live alone in Avdiivka. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world. Avdiivka: Nadezh Losipovna, age 75, mourns the loss of her grandson Igor, who died a few weeks ago as she visits his grave with her son Nicolay. Nadezhda also suffered the loss of other men in her family including her husband who died of cancer. Her daughter lives on the other side of the contact line in Donetsk city - stronghold of pro-Russia separatists so she rarely gets to see her and live alone in Avdiivka. After more than four years of war the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has a human toll that is staggering. The war has displaced more than 1.6 million with over 2,500 civilians killed and 9,000 injured. Some 200,000 people live under constant fear of shelling every day, with nearly a third of the 3.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance over 60 years of age. Ukraine has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war in the world.