The stories behind these 12 images will melt your heart
1. Friend for all time
This visibly shaken police dog named Fig pays the last tribute to his owner and trainer, who died in an ambush while working. Registration was made in the US state of Kentucky.
2. Affordable Dreams
Since she was born, Luka suffers from muscular dystrophy - a condition that affects her body movements - and cannot move without being in a wheelchair. However, with the help of a photographer, the 12-year-old managed to realize an old dream: to throw a basketball into a basket.
3. Eternal Partnership
To relieve the pain of a rub on Shoep, a 19-year-old dog, his owner takes him daily to bathe in the waters of a lake near their home. Only after doing this can the dog, relieved, fall asleep peacefully.
4. All over again
After his wife began to lose her memory, her husband decided that he would teach her to read, write, and count numbers as many times as necessary.
5. Educating under the bridge
An estimated 290 million Indians - 23% of the population - are illiterate. In an attempt to reverse this reality, these two teachers volunteered to teach underprivileged children under a bridge in the country's capital, New Delhi.
6. Everyday War
Meanwhile, in Syria - a nation that has been facing a civil war since 2011 that has taken the lives of countless people and forced so many to take refuge in other countries - we see a melancholy record of childhood. Instead of studying and playing, this 10-year-old works 11 hours a day at his father's arms factory.
7. Beyond Time
There wasn't a late afternoon when this couple didn't sit on the bench in this square to talk. One day, unfortunately, she had to leave, leaving her husband with memories of the good days they had lived together. Sometime after her death, he was part of this record in which a picture of the two of them was placed in the foreground - just as she was in her life.
8. Hope is the last one that dies
After hours buried, this boy was rescued alive by rescuers amid the rubble of a building that had collapsed in Mumbai, India.
9. Private Party
Little did this German soldier know that he would have to celebrate his 34th birthday away from his relatives and friends. He, who was in combat in Afghanistan at the time, celebrated this special day in the presence of his platoon mates and some solitary candles. He did not win birthday cake or receive gifts.
10. Buried Life
After a seismic shock hit the Chinese province of Sichuan, this boy's life was no longer the same. The only memory of the relatives he could recover was this old photo album for which he looks with a tight heart. In this record, he flips through his dusty pages sitting under the wreckage of the house where he lived.
11. Reality to pieces
The same earthquake that took the lives of the boy's family members above also destroyed the house where this boy lived. Disagreeing, he couldn't let go of his mother's leg so desolate.
12. The last goodbye
The Korean War - fought between 1950 and 1953 - not only divided one nation into two, but also separated numerous families. The image below shows the moment when a brother who lives in South Korea says goodbye to his brother. The rare meeting took place in 2010, when some South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in the neighboring country.
