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​When the water truck doesn't come to Lopii, women have to walk 13km to get what their family needs for the day. Because that takes so long, sometimes they have to sleep at the water site, or risk being attacked by cattle rustlers or wild animals on
Abishyizehamwe farmers' co-op in southern Rwanda. 
​A girls' softball team, with players from ages 12 to 23, plays on a makeshift diamond in a sugar cane workers' shantytown in Barahona, Dominican Republic, near the border of Haiti. 
Villagers in Turkana, Kenya scramble to fill jugs of water from a 25,000 liter water truck that comes two times per week. Each family has a ration of 20 liters of water, but ideally they should have 100. The water truck is a temporary intervention w
“When I leave the children here, even those who go to school, they come back because they are thirsty. They will not concentrate on their learning because they are thirsty." - Nakirdio, mother of six. She shares her husband with two other wives.&nbs
​Monica has already lost two children. She worries about how she will provide for the remaining five in the midst of Kenya's harshest drought in more than 60 years. “I feel so bad — I am worried,” she says. “I think, ‘Will they die? What will h
​Emuria, 39, at a food distribution with three of her five children in Turkana, Kenya. Emuria's husband was shot in a cattle raid a little more than two years ago, leaving her to provide for the children on her own. All of their camels, cows, and go
Children in rural Swaziland catch a ride home from Bible club in the back of a pickup truck. 
A girl demonstrates the hand washing system her mother devised outside their family's latrine near Lilongwe, Malawi. 
​Girls from a Haitian sugar cane farming community play in a dirty irrigation ditch at sunset near Barahona, Dominican Republic. 
​Boys from a Haitian sugar cane shanytown play in an abandoned thatch hut near Barahona, Dominican Republic.
Lelis Edgardo Cantarero Palacios, 40, tends to the last plantains of the harvest season on his farm in central Honduras. An NGO helped him get started, and in turn he must give plantain seedlings to other farmers to help them start their own farms t
Members of Iglesia Bautista Nueva Vida participate in a Saturday evening youth group service in Danlí, Honduras. 
Quechua preschoolers dance and play at the edge of a mountain deep in the Andes, hours away from any city. Alpacas, sheep, and various agriculture sustain families in this remote Peruvian village. 
​Elder, 3, and his cousin Angela, 8, trapped beneath the porch roof on a cold, rainy day in El Roblar, Nicaragua. 
Near Xiamen, China, there is a small island called Gulangyu, famous for building pianos. There are no cars on the island, only electric golf carts and men pulling rickshaws. ​
​A commuter rides a ferry from Gulangyu Island to the mainland, Xiamen, in southern China. 
​Zion Evans, 7, squares off with a punching bag in northeast Portland. Boxers may begin training young, but can't fight until they turn 8. For Zion, that is still five months away. 
Charlotte Hopkins. Native Oregonian, runaway stagecoach survivor, hater of California, devoted Chihuahua lover.

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