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Tamunie Hegisso, Ethiopian village midwife, is revered in her community.

The feeding of the pigeons in Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy become s an experience laced with magic.

An elderly and ill man sits in his hut in war-torn southern Sudan. Beer Lual, 72, lost four children tot eh war along with all his land and now spends his twilight years in a refugee camp.

Women from the Dinka tribe smoke their pipes at a refugee camp as they prepare for a dance lamenting the loss of their cattle and land in war-torn southern Sudan.

Dr. Angelo D'Agostino, an American priest and founder of an orphanage for HIV-positive children in Nairobi, Kenya. The young residents

President Clinton dances with his daughter, Chelsea, at an Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C.

Sam and Teresa are residents at Hansen's Disease Center in Carville, Louisiana. It is the last remaining center in the mainland US for treatment of leprosy. A law has recently passes to close the center, displacing many of the patients who no w call…

Two young girls kiss amid the chaos of opening day of the new FDR Memorial in Washington, DC.

'Jambo,' a baby gorilla, hold onto a swing in Limbe Wildlife Center in Cameroon, a refuge for orphaned primates. He is a victim of the illegal trade in Africa that threatens endangered species with extinction. Gorillas are considered highly…

Adele Ouattara, a 10-year-old girl, lathers up for her bath in the courtyard of her apartment building in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast of Africa.