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During lunch break, girls perform a dance in the inner courtyard at the Silwanetshe Primary School, in South Africa. The students are made to wear school uniforms which is an added cost to the families.

Cecilia Wahu, 66, walked up a moist mud path caked with human excrement. The smell of human excrement fills the air, as resident use plastic bags as toilets and tosses them in the dark of night. Wahu has TB. She was on her way to the TB clinic. Wahu…

Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya is the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa. About a million inhabitants are stuffed into 300 aces. In Kibera it is cramped, overflowing with raw sewage and sickness, often without running water and…

Joseph Mutua (CQ) (left), 49, watches the rain fall in the slum called 'Deep Sea,' in Nairobi, Kenya. Joseph is a security guard in the slum. His son peeks out the doorways as they watch the rain flow down the fowl smelling, red muddy path, outside…

Joseph Mutua, 49, inside of his home in the small slum called 'Deep Sea', in Nairobi, Kenya. His family lives in this 100-foot square corrugated tin shack. He said, 'The landlords throw you out in no time because so many others want the house.' The…

Peaking through holes in the Cecilia Wahu's tin house, Wairimu Wahu (left) and Margaret Wambui (middle) are visible sitting on the dirt path outside Wahu's house, in the small slum called deep Sea. Children laugh as they run barefoot over the paths.…

Piles of imported used pants are for sale at Yaba market in Lagos. Nigerian. Textile manufacturers can't complete with the hand-me-down prices of blue-jeans that can be had for about a dollar. The country's colorful traditional textiles and fashions…

Drummers provide a little entertainment amid the bargaining vendors and buyers share their songs, 'Let good things happen to us,' in the Yaba market, in Lagos, Nigera.

Large bales of used clothing sit in popular Yaba Market, in Lagos, Nigeria, as people push past in the narrow paths. The Yaba market is a carnival, bursting at the seams with sounds of vendors.

A young clothing merchant sits next to piles of used clothing under the hot sun mid day at the Yaba Market, in Lagos, Nigeria. Clothing merchants sell used clothing illegally imported from the U.S. The markets rests on railroad tracks. (The train was…