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Guillaine Mulenda, 19, powders her second child, who is a month old. Her first child was fathered by a soldier. When he left, she says, she had to resort to prostitution. Many prostitutes die of AIDS, leaving their children still deeper in the cycle…

Prostitute Chouchou Malenga, 20, nuzzles her baby Achile, 3 months, after giving him a bath. She says she uses part of her earnings to support her younger siblings who, like her her, will have little chance of breaking out of subsistence-level…

Wearing her a pink dress, Ange Rwiyereka (CQ), 5, daughter of Panchrace Rwiyereka (CQ), ran in and out of their front door in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Panchrace Rwiyereka is the Chief Head of the Division of Work.

Government workers do not get paid for their work, but they go to work anyway for the stability and bribes. If someone has a complaint, they must bring their own piece of paper to typed their complaint on, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Panchrace Rwiyereka, who runs Goma's Division of Work, is among the civil servants who don't bring home salaries. But in the culture of bribery, he says, 'having a job that doesn't pay is better than having no job at all.'

Banyake Mulindwa, 14, carried a ragtag homemade soccer ball, outside his home in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. His father earns less than a dollar a day.

Outside on a cooled bed of lava, carpenter Valentine Tulinabo, 19, cut wood to make a chair in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. He is a worker who is participating in the humanitarian community development program entitled United Nations Office…

A volcanic eruption entombed nearly half of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, adding to the harshness imposed by decades of war and disease. The ill-shod workers who break up the crust of lava for building materials earn than a dollar a day.

Along Goma's haphazard streets, steam rises from the lava of a still-restive volcano when it rains. The city is surrounded by natural wealth, including land rich with minerals and hardwoods. But little of it benefits residents, who struggle to…

What is it like to live on less than a dollar a day? Hundreds of millions in sub-Saharan Africa know. Their work is an endless cycle of bartering, hawking and scrounging to get by until tomorrow. In Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, the chukudu…