(photo by Michelle Frankfurter) Home of Mercy Migrant Shelter Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico July 2010 From the project Destino
(photo by Andrea Bruce) "I think the religious shouldn't be combined with politics. Here in Egypt we are scared. We don't want any one religion to control us. When I talk to my girlfriends we talk about how we don't want someone religious in the government," Radwa Ray Radwia, 21.
(photo by Amanda Lucidon) Alex Khalaf and Amy Sokal share thier first dance together after being pronounced "wife" and "wife" during thier wedding ceremony on August 28, 2010.
(photo by Gabriela Bulisova) Sade, 1 year, Washington, D.C. With more than one million women behind bars or under the control of the criminal justice system, women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population, increasing at nearly double the rate of men since 1985.
(photo by Allison Shelley) A pair of 15-month-old twins with cholera are held by their mother, right, and sister, center, as they receive IV drips in the intake tent at a cholera clinic set up by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 19, 2010.
(photo by Amanda Lucidon) Amy Sokal kisses Alex Khalaf as she waits to be artifically inseminated at Shady Grove Fertility Clinic in Annandale, Va. Although the same-sex couple was legally married in Washington, D.C., they will not be entitiled to certain spousal and parental rights since thier marriage is not recognized in Virginia.
(photo by Alison Harbaugh) Fifty young girls have been given the opportunity to live, learn and become independent women at the 66 year old Akhil Bharatiya Mahila Ashram in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Here, an older girl has invited her younger friend to the rooftop of the ashram where she looks out over the town and Himalaya mountains in a contemplative state as her young friend watches her in silence.
(photo by Erin Scott) As patients look on, Jessica Scott, RN, makes late-night phone calls to try and secure extra beds for Hopital Adventiste d'Haiti in Carrefour. Rioting over election results has filled the hospital above capacity and forced many patients to sleep in hallways and outdoor sidewalks.
(photo by Allison Shelley) A girl stands on a grave in a cemetery just outside of the town of La Branle, Haiti during a funeral, Saturday, December 4, 2010. Like many other riverside towns in the Artibonite, region, La Branle has been hit hard by the recent cholera epidemic that has left over 3,000 people dead countrywide.
(photo by Crystaline Kline Randazzo) A young Zambian girl peeks into the newest Lubuto Library at Ngwerere School in Lusaka, Zambia. The library project provides a balanced library collection and educational programing for street kids who have lost their families to HIV/AIDS and have no other resources for education.
(photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) Pam Cash, 52, catches a nap between two cleaning jobs with sons Rudy and Nelson at home in New Orleans, LA on August 15, 2010. Thoug very tired, things were worse five years ago after Hurricane Katrina when her adopted nephew Denzel needed heart surgery at the Superdome, she was dealing with Nelson, who has Downs Syndrome, and Rudy, who has severe ADHD.
(photo by Gabriela Bulisova) Zandononi Day, 13 years, Washington, D.C. “I am a single mom, I have a substance abuse history, I am convicted felon and on top of that, I am a Muslim. When I go out in the society people have already prejudged me and they don’t even know me, all they do is look at my face." With more than one million women behind bars or under the control of the criminal justice system, women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population, increasing at nearly double the rate of men since 1985.
(photo by Jacquelyn Martin) Young ethnic Khmu girls run through the main street of their village at dusk in Samsa Ath, Laos on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Hill tribes like the Khmu suffer from a shortage of clean water, infrastructure, and educational opportunities, in one of the last communist countries on earth.
(photo by Alison Harbaugh) Simpi Yadav, is one of oldest girls living at the 66 year old Akhil Bharatiya Mahila Ashram in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. She is a true leader among the 50 young girls who have come to spend their young lives there as they become educated, learn independence and develop life-long friendships with each other.
(photo by Jacquelyn Martin) Boapan, left, sorts a river weed called Kai with her daughter Kampat, 14, center, and other family on the banks of the Nam Ou River in Nong Khiaw, Laos on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. The plant is dried and used for food as well as sold, in one of the last communist countries on earth.
(photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Emily Franks with her 2 1/2-year-old son, Caden, at her feet attempts to read a recipe as she makes dinner for friends at her home Tuesday, Oct. 26 in Clarksville, TN. Franks is the go-to woman for military wives whose husbands are on a year-long deployment to Afghanistan.
(photo by Gabriela Bulisova) Zandononi Day, 13 years, Washington, D.C. The number of women felons is small compared with men, but female incarceration has a disproportionate ripple effect on their families and especially on their children. With more than one million women behind bars or under the control of the criminal justice system, women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population, increasing at nearly double the rate of men since 1985.
(photo by Leslie E. Kossoff/LK Photos) Ron Cowan, from Alpharetta, GA, joins other tax protesters during the Tax Day Protest Rally organized by the Tea Party Express, in Freedom Plaza on Thursday, April 15, 2010, in Washington, DC. It was the last stop for the cross-country Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out Tour.
(photo by Dana Rene Bowler) Jeanette Poston cries at the graveside of her son Zachary R. Wobler Monday afternoon at Arlington Cemetary during the 142nd Memorial Day Observance. Staff Sergent Zachary R. Wobles, 24, of Ohio died February 6, 2005 in Mosul Iraq, when his dismounted patrol encountered enemy forces. Wobler was assigned to the Army's 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
(photo by Juana Arias) Maria Bolanos takes her sleeping daughter Melisa to a neighbor's house before she goes to work. Bolanos has two jobs. She starts the first one at 7am and finishes the second at 3am.
After a final court appearance to make her adoption legal, Ila Yslande Ann Hubner, who was born in Haiti, takes a spin in her aunt's shoes Thursday, January 20, 2011 in Frederick, MD. The adoption process was expedited for the Frederick family after the devasting earthquake damaged the orphanage last year.