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  • A man on a scooter stops to look at books on one of the many book stalls on the 30th of October 2019 down the Calle Claudio Moyano, Madrid, Spain.  (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Two African children read a story book together as part of the 'book buddy' scheme in Zenzeleni School in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa.  The book buddy scheme is supported by the Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities. Children of similar reading ability are paired together to read to each other.
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  • Two African children read a story book together as part of the 'book buddy' scheme in Zenzeleni School in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa.  The book buddy scheme is supported by the Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities. Children of similar reading ability are paired together to read to each other.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8955.jpg
  • No books are on display and a warning sign is in the window of Waterstones Book shop reading ‘No Cash or valuables are left on these premises overnight’  that is closed due to COVID-19 on the 10th of April 2020, in Folkestone, United Kingdom. All non-essential business’s including books shops have been closed with immediate affect and will remain closed until the government lifts the restrictions due to the Corona virus  (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A man holds a copy of the children’s book, Horrid Henry’s Big Bad Book in front his face. He is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books. HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. As part of the Storybook Dads Program a prisoner reads a story for his 8-year-old son. HMP Kingston.
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  • A man holds a copy of the children’s book, Horrid Henry’s Big Bad Book in front his face. He is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books. HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. As part of the Storybook Dads Program a prisoner reads a story for his 8-year-old son. HMP Kingston.
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  • A man holds a copy of the children’s book, Horrid Henry’s Big Bad Book in front his face. He is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books. HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. As part of the Storybook Dads Program a prisoner reads a story for his 8-year-old son. HMP Kingston.
    HMP-Kingston-2650.jpg
  • A warning sign in the window of Waterstones Book shop reading ‘No Cash or valuables are left on these premises overnight’  that is closed due to COVID-19 on the 10th of April 2020, in Folkestone, United Kingdom. All non-essential business’s including books shops have been closed with immediate affect and will remain closed until the government lifts the restrictions due to the Corona virus  (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
    UK-Pandemic-Lockdown-6993.jpg
  • A young African school-child proudly holds his reading book and smiles in in a class room in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  He is learning to read independently.  The book has been provided provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8142.jpg
  • A young African school-child proudly holds his 'A Cat in the Tree' reading book outside his classroom in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  He is learning to read independently.  The book has been provided provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8197.jpg
  • A prisoner chooses a book in the prison library. HMP Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom
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  • A man holds a copy of the children’s book, The Gruffalo in front his face. He is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books. HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. As part of the Storybook Dads Program a prisoner reads a story for his 6-year-old daughter. HMP Kingston.
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  • A man holds a copy of the children’s book, The Gruffalo in front his face. He is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books. HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. As part of the Storybook Dads Program a prisoner reads a story for his 6-year-old daughter. HMP Kingston.
    HMP-Kingston-2672.jpg
  • A man holds a copy of the children’s book, The Gruffalo in front his face. He is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books. HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. As part of the Storybook Dads Program a prisoner reads a story for his 6-year-old daughter. HMP Kingston.
    HMP-Kingston-2669.jpg
  • A man holds a copy of the children’s book, The Gruffalo’s Child in front his face. He is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books. HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. As part of the Storybook Dads Program a prisoner reads a story for his 4-year-old son. HMP Kingston.
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  • A man holds a copy of the children’s book, The Gruffalo’s Child in front his face. He is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books. HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. As part of the Storybook Dads Program a prisoner reads a story for his 4-year-old son. HMP Kingston.
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  • A child stands at one of book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
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  • Book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
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  • Book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1414.jpg
  • A man stands at one of book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1410.jpg
  • Book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1404.jpg
  • A prisoner reads a text book in the prison library. HMP The Mount, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire
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  • A prisoner reads a text book in the prison library. HMP The Mount, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire
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  • The items needed for an Orthodox Jewish man during Morning Prayer. A copy of siddur (prayer book containing daily prayers) the Tallit and two tefillins, the leather straps from the arm Tefillin is being worn. Once all these items have been put on correctly Morning Prayer can begin.
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  • Two Tefillin cases on top of a velvet case used to protect the Tallit and siddur (prayer book containing daily prayers). A Tefillin is the small back box containing prayers written on small scrolls that an Orthodox Jewish man places on his arm and head during Morning Prayer.
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  • Book shelves with integrated lighting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1459.jpg
  • A British fisherman holds a flame up to his European fishing log book in protest about European fishing laws. Kent, United Kingdom. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A young school girl happily reads out loud to her class in a classroom in St Agnes Primary School, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa.  Two boys stand behind her also looking at the book and waiting for their turn to read.  They are standing in a queue by the green board at the front of the class and wear school uniform.
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  • A prisoner holds an extra large print edition of a book for the visually imaired on the Vulnerable Prisoners Unit. HMP Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom
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  • Taria, a Nepalese teacher, looks at her book while her students carry out a writing exercise a class room in the Voice of Children rehabilitation center in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
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  • The Face book home screen on a computer screen.
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  • A book of local tourist attractions, including sex workers, is on display in a hotel lobby, Bangkok, Thailand
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  • A book of local tourist attractions, including sex workers, is on display in a hotel lobby, Bangkok, Thailand
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  • Two Orthodox Jewish men praying from the same prayer book in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (Blessing of the Sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
    09-OJC-birkat-8158.jpg
  • Business study library books on a shelf in a university library on the 28th of April 2021, Coventry, United Kingdom. Shelves full of books about business management, making better decisions, project management and making business better.  (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The lesbian fiction section of books in the library inside HMP Downview, Surrey, United Kingdom. HMP Downview is a women's closed category prison for adult sentenced women and convicted and remand female young people located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. (Picture credit: © Andy Aitchison)
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  • The lesbian fiction section of books in the library inside HMP Downview, Surrey, United Kingdom. HMP Downview is a women's closed category prison for adult sentenced women and convicted and remand female young people located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. (Picture credit: © Andy Aitchison)
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  • The lesbian fiction section of books in the library inside HMP Downview, Surrey, United Kingdom. HMP Downview is a women's closed category prison for adult sentenced women and convicted and remand female young people located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. (Picture credit: © Andy Aitchison)
    UK-Justice-HMP-Downview-5279.jpg
  • Books and CD's on a shelf in a prisoners cell at HMP Kingston. Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Kingston prison is a category C prison holding indeterminate sentenced prisoners.
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  • Books on library shelves at HMP Kingston. Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Kingston prison is a category C prison holding indeterminate sentenced prisoners.
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  • Books on library shelves at HMP Kingston. Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Kingston prison is a category C prison holding indeterminate sentenced prisoners.
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  • Books on library shelves at HMP Kingston. Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Kingston prison is a category C prison holding indeterminate sentenced prisoners.
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  • The lesbian fiction section of books in the library inside HMP Downview, Surrey, United Kingdom. HMP Downview is a women's closed category prison for adult sentenced women and convicted and remand female young people located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. (Picture credit: © Andy Aitchison)
    UK-Justice-HMP-Downview-5284.jpg
  • A selection of faith and self help books in the prison chapel. HMP/YOI Askham Grange is a women's open prison serving the Yorkshire area with a capacity of 128 women. It has extensive education, training and mother and Baby facilities.
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  • A female Nepalese teacher marks her student's work books while the young children check the board for their writing practice exercise.  They are in a nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation's Impact Award.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Child-Education-4978.jpg
  • Young African school children line up in a queue waiting to go into their classroom in the corridor of Observatory Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa.  They are waiting for a literacy class and some of the children are holding their reading books.  The literacy class is supported by the Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • African school children walk across the school car park with their reading books accompanied by a female teacher in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  They are attending an extra reading session provided by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • The British Museum library Reading Room in London.
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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boys preparing to pray by wrapping the leather strap of his Tefillin around his arm and a Tallit (prayer shawl) around his shoulders.  The arm-Tefillin, is worn on the upper arm, while the head-Tefillin, is placed above the forehead. They serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. According to Jewish Law, they should be worn during weekday Morning Prayer services.
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  • Students stand chatting inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1605.jpg
  • A young girl reading inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK.
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  • A young mum reading to her child  inside the library of the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK. It houses the county archives and archaeology service, the local history centre and is also a local authority hub. The building is low energy.
    UK-Worcester-Library-The-Hive-1596.jpg
  • A young Orthodox Jewish boys preparing to pray by wrapping the leather strap of his Tefillin around his arm and a Tallit (prayer shawl) around his shoulders.  The arm-Tefillin, is worn on the upper arm, while the head-Tefillin, is placed above the forehead. They serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. According to Jewish Law, they should be worn during weekday Morning Prayer services.
    07-prayer_8682.jpg
  • The caretaker of Gan Eden Synagogue in Stamford Hill putting away one of the elaborately decorated Torah scrolls inside the Ark of the synagogue. The ark is generally a receptacle or cupboard that contains all the synagogues torah scrolls; it is generally located on the wall considered closest to Jerusalem.
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  • A young Nepalese boy learns to write in his workbook.  He is in a class room at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  His parents are carpet factory workers, and he has been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation's Impact Award.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Child-Education-5053.jpg
  • A female Nepalese teacher  encourages a young girl student to learn how to write as two boys watch and wait. They are in a nursery class room at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation's Impact Award.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Child-Education-5012.jpg
  • Young boy looks up at teacher in his nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation's Impact Award.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Child-Education-4987.jpg
  • Young children in a nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation's Impact Award.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Child-Education-4968.jpg
  • A women sitting in the visitors family room at HMP Holloway, the main womens prison in London.
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  • On the first day of Passover Rabbi Gluck burns his homets and the tools used to collect the homets in a garden fire. While burning these items he recites a prayer.
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  • A young family get to spend some extended time together reading stories during a family visit in HMP Brixton, South London on the 26th of July 2016, London United Kingdom. The Prisoner Advice & Care Trust (PACT) organise special family days that help the men inside the prison connect with and support their partners and children on the outside. (photo by Andy Aitchison)
    UK-Justice-HMP-Brixton-9987.jpg
  • Two Nepalese young boys practice writing in a class room in the Voice of Children rehabilitation center in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-children-writing-class-6926.jpg
  • Two Nepalese young boys practice writing in a class room in the Voice of Children rehabilitation center in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-children-writing-class-6917.jpg
  • A school-grade 2 African kid plays a board game designed to improve children's literacy called 'Cloudy Sky' in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The game has been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8018.jpg
  • A young Nepalese boy looks at the teaching board in during a lesson in a classroom at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  The children's parents are carpet factory workers, and the children have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation's Impact Award.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Child-Education-5119.jpg
  • A female Nepalese teacher assess the work of one of her female students in a class room at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  The children's parents are carpet factory workers, and they have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation's Impact Award.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Child-Education-5078.jpg
  • Young children in a nursery class room learning to write at the GoodWeave centre in Attarkhen, Kathmandu, Nepal.  They are children of carpet factory workers, and have been supported into education by GoodWeave, a charity that works towards getting children out of factories and into education.  Previously these children would have been left unattended in the factory while their parents worked as their low salary could not cover childcare costs. GoodWeave were recipients of the Stars Foundation's Impact Award.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Child-Education-4962.jpg
  • Orthodox Jewish men  during Morning Prayer inside a Stamford Hill synagogue. Communal praying in a minyan (quorum) is preferred by men who wear a Tallit (prayer shawl) and a Tefillin (a box containing strips of parchment inscribed with 4 passages of the Torah) on their heads with the leather straps around their arm and hand.
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • A civilian volunteeer in the prison library talks to one of the prisoners. HMP Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom
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  • A prisoner reading in his cell. HMP Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom
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  • Prisoners on the Vulnerable Prisoner Unit hold up translation dictionaries in different languages. HMP Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom
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  • A prisoner translates a prison leaflet into Somali. HMP Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom
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  • The prisoners food menu is also written in Braille on the Vulnerable Prisoners Unit. HMP Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom
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  • A prisoner doing written work during a lesson. HMP The Mount, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire
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  • A prisoner who works at the Inside Innovations translation workshop in Wandsworth prison is helping to translate forms from English into Polish..HMP Wandsworth in South West London was built in 1851 and is one of the largest prisons in Western Europe. It has a capacity of 1456 prisoners.
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  • An inmate points to the weekly prison food menu that has been translated into Braille by the Inside Innovations translation workshop inside Wandsworth prison. HMP Wandsworth in South West London was built in 1851 and is one of the largest prisons in Western Europe. It has a capacity of 1456 prisoners.
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  • Inmates involved with the Inside Innovations translation workshop at Wandsworth prison have translated the weekly prison food menu into Braille..HMP Wandsworth in South West London was built in 1851 and is one of the largest prisons in Western Europe. It has a capacity of 1456 prisoners.
    07-wandsworth_8563.jpg
  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
    09-OJC-birkat-8422.jpg
  • Friends of a 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy who have already had their Bar Mitzvah pray without him before his begins, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • Orthodox Jews from Stamford Hill pray outside the tomb of Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz, The Shotzer Rebbe who is buried in the Adath Yisroel cemetery, Enfield. Before his death in 1958 (5718 Jewish years) he promised to help everyone who attended his tomb on a Friday morning and lit 3 candles.  It is thought by people in the local community that thousands have had spiritual help after lighting candles and praying here. On Friday the 12th of January 2007 it was the anniversary of his death, hundreds of people turned up to light candles, place them on his tomb and pray.
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  • On the first day of Passover Orthodox Jewish men burn Chamets and the tools used to collect the Chamets on a fire in their garden. While burning these items they recite prayers.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress celebrate the festival with a feast. The evening quickly moves onto dancing on the tables that sends food flying everywhere. The school boys drink large amounts of alcohol throughout the day and night.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress visit local businessmen to collect money for their school. At the end of the day they return to their school and have a celebration feast, the Purim Rabbi performs a song to his class during the meal. Large amounts of alcohol are consumed during the festival.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress visit local businessmen to collect money for their school. Some of the businessman that they visit read a prayer to the group. The young boys drink alcohol at every house they visit during the day.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress visit local businessmen to collect money for their school. The group perform tasks for cash, here the Purim Rabbi attached a mezuzah (a prayer scroll) to a new doorway to the garden.
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  • On the 3rd birthday of a Orthodox Jewish boy he has his first ever hair cut leaving his peyos (sideburns) to grow. His Grandfather then places a kippah on his head for the first ever time. A kippah is said to be 'A blessing on the head' and is perhaps the most instantly identifiable mark of a Jew. With both his Grandfathers either side he now begins to learn the Alpha bet so he can read the Torah.
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  • Education books and test results on a desk during a training session for all the teachers in the school to improve teaching methodologies in classrooms. Angaza school, Lindi, Tanzania
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  • Books in libraries. Various library across London.
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  • Books in libraries. Various library across London.
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  • Books in libraries. Various library across London.
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  • Books in libraries. Various library across London.
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  • Books in libraries. Various library across London.
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  • The community library with books donated by Books for Africa in the Slums Information Development & Resource Centres in Pumwani.
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  • Books for children in the visitors centre. HMP Styal, Wilmslow, Cheshire
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  • Teachers in discussions during a training session in the school to improve teaching methodologies in classrooms. Angaza school, Lindi, Tanzania
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  • Guy Nevil, senior partner and engineer from Max Fordham outside the Hive, Worcester is the first fully integrated university and public library in the UK.
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  • The Hive in Worcester UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK.
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  • Students study inside the Hive, Worcester is the first fully integrated university and public library in the UK.
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  • Guy Nevil, senior partner and engineer from Max Fordham inside the library of  the Hive in Worcester, UK. The first fully integrated university and public library in the UK.
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