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Benet is a 17-year-old Maasai boy living in the vast and remote Maasai Mara in Kenya, one of the most famously beautiful places on Earth. It's also where indigenous people live in abject poverty. Two years ago when Benet was still not quite five feet tall, his ragged cough, worn face, dimly lit eyes and spindly legs were evidence of his serious illness. ... read more |
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As a little girl, Ma Xiaohong dreamed of going to school. But an education always remained just out of her reach. Although schools stood scattered across the plains where Ma Xiaohong lives in China's Gansu Province, the remote and impoverished region northeast of Beijing, they were too dilapidated and dangerous for any learning to take place. The closest school that she could attend was miles away in a neighboring village, a dangerous trip that would take hours for Ma Xiaohong to walk every day. ... read more |
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At 15, Mary Smart is already a survivor.
She was only nine years old when rebel armed forces in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war ripped her father, brother and sister away from her, killing them instantly. Mary escaped, but fear and loneliness became her only companions. She survived by hiding in the forest for four years. ... read more |
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When the waves of the tsunami crashed on T.L. Rinoza's world, she knew her life would change forever. T.L. lives in Pottuvil, Sri Lanka, a rural region of the South Asian country that was devastated by the 2004 tsunami. Her family, like so many others, lost everything in that one moment-home, jobs, property, the very means for their survival. ... read more |
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Mercy is an AIDS orphan who lost both her parents to the disease. The morning we met her, her eyes were dull. We were told she had been very unwell and had lost a lot of weight. Then she collapsed. Michelle Hambly, the head of our mobile health clinics in the community, immediately took Mercy to the local hospital.
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