Two children living in a garbage dump in Honduras take shelter in their makeshift home.
A young man from Honduras jumps from one railroad car to another after learning he is on the wrong train. He is trying to reach a car with a ladder to exit the train before it gains more speed.
Young boys crouch alongside a military police officer. Growing up in an environment of conflict affects all populations, but children are the most impressionable and vulnerable.
Close to 90 percent of the countries in the world share their water resources with other countries, including 263 transboundary river basins. About 60 percent of the world's population depends on these international water systems.
In 2003, I was traveling through Ghana. I arrived at a small hospital, and when I entered one of the rooms, there was a young girl slowly dying. It was the first time I ever had to put down my camera.
A Ghanian woman makes rice.
Farming in Mozambique for bananas. Farmers in Africa produce a diverse amount of crops. Cash crops such as bananas provide income as well as produce for consumption.
A girl from the Senoufo ethnic group picks cotton.
The "Death Train" arrives in Oaxaca, Mexico, loaded with migrants headed to the United States. The train is named for the number of people who die from falling off it or at the hands of bandits who victimize those using the train to go north.
In developing countries, one girl in seven is married before the age of 15.
A Sudanese woman and her child.
Two young girls in Ghana haul water home for their evening meal. Children may begin this chore as young as four years old--they learn with a container appropriate for their physical size.
Cleaning grain in a Sudanese refugee camp.
While visiting a WFP distribution warehouse in Malawi, I noticed this little girl asleep, using a WFP bag as her bed. Her mother was waiting in line to receive her weekly food rations.
Farming in Bangladesh.
Farming in Malawi.
A hungry child in Tajikistan.
A young boy in Ghana collects cow dung from the field to use for cooking at home. Competition for limited resources takes a toll in various ways--in this case, what could provide organic fertilizer to increase soil fertility is claimed for more immediate needs such as cooking fuel.
At one of the largest food depots operated by WFP, trucks are loaded to provide weekly rations to a number of IDPs in the Darfur region.
Dropping sacks of flour, split peas and boxes of cooking oil at a landing pad marked in the snow in Pakistan.
