During Soviet times these horses belonged to a collective farm. They now roam the countryside, their stables in the background, destroyed with the collapse of the Soviet system.

During the transition from the Soviet system, garbage was not collected at a housing project on the outskirts of Dushanbe, the capital. This young man was walking his bicycle through the garbage dump.

In the bathroom of an institution for children with moderate disabilities. The children did not have their own toothbrushes.

A U.S. donor provided wood chips to be used to heat an orphanage after the earthquake that occurred in Armenia in 1987. The wood chips, which could not be burned in the orphanage's furnace, sat for years.

This child participates in a program for street children which teaches them to read, write and survive, and if possible, to reunite with their families. The program is at the main bus station where the children lived and worked on the street.

This child participates in a program for street children which teaches them to read, write and survive, and if possible, to reunite with their families. The program is at the main bus station where the children lived and worked on the street.

This man was at the bus station, looking in ominously at the street children. It is not uncommon for men to exploit children at bus stations in Bangladesh.

A mother is signing papers authorizing her brother and his wife to foster her child while she travels out of the country to work.

People living under posters: People were living under posters of the then Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi.

Sar Habakkuk is an Igbo Jew. He and the members of his congregation are not accepted as Jews by parts of the Jewish hierarchy in Israel.

Each person in a crowd of hundreds of soccer fans sits alone, enjoying the game.

Fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo caused thousands of people to cross the border at Gombe into Rwanda where they were temporarily resettled in a transit camp for thousands of people who after weeks or months would be transferred to longer-term resettlement camps.

This young girl is living in the foster home of the woman next to her. Although the woman had been a stranger to her and she is not with her own family she found a safe and nurturing home.