World Vision U.S.: Photos - Iraq Photos from 1999

All photos taken by Steve Matthews in a 1999 trip to Iraq.

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	1				Unidentified girl with teddy bear outside an IDP center operated by MECC in Basrah, Iraq.

	2				Families in the overcrowded emergency ward at the Saddam Children's Hospital in Baghdad. In most cases each bed held two mothers with two children.

	3				Child in the overcrowded emergency ward of Saddam Children's Hospital in Baghdad.

	4				A mother sits with her dehydrated-month-old daughter, Saja, on the floor of the emergency room of Saddam Children's Hospital In Baghdad.

	5				Child working on the streets of Basrah.

	6				Child in the overcrowded emergency ward of Saddam Children's Hospital in Baghdad.

	7				Emergency food provided by World Vision distributed at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in Baghdad.

	8				Emergency food provided by World Vision distributed at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in Baghdad.

	9				Hulssin Toufack, 6, suffering from leukemia at the Saddam Children's Hospital in Baghdad.

	10				Unidentified street kids in a garbage dump next to the market in Baghdad.

	11				Child in the overcrowded emergency ward of Saddam Children's Hospital in Baghdad.

	12				Nine-year-old Ahmed stands in garbage next to his home in a residential area of Baghdad.