Violence and crime is one of the major problems facing the guests of the People in Peril shelter in Worcester, MA. Joan was severely beaten for no other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The violence, as well as the desire to live as normal a life as possible, kept Joan from staying at the PIP regularly. She was killed one week later in a fire that destroyed the trailer she was living in along with her partner Arthur.

80-year-old Lucy Havens, a missionary and traveling evangelist for over 38 years, steps outside her mobile home wearing the vest she was given as an honorary member of the Christian Motorcyclists Association. Havens runs Little George Havens' Cowboy Camp, a rural revival camp her late husband, Little George Havens, founded in 1966.

Dorita Lindo Meza arrived at the Carlos Maria Ulloa institution in San Jose, Costa Rica as an 8 year old orphan. Now she is 69. She has never left and has never stopped dressing the way she came, like a little girl. She remembers almost nothing of her life before she being institutionalized, Carlos Maria Ulloa is her home. Although a patient, Dorita spends her days caring for other patients and her newest doll with a seemingly inexhaustible wealth of energy.

Beatriz Garcia's son Jenry Gonzalez, 11, was hit by a stray bullet during his first football practice at Carter Playground in Roxbury. Here, Beatriz and Jenry's and baby-sister Yuliana Soto, 2, sit in the kitchen of their Roxbury apartment a day after Jenry returned from the hospital Thursday afternoon, August, 12, 2004.

Amy Gardner of Franklin, Ky., stands on the site of her son

Neale Henderson stands near a painting depicting a dugout scene from a Negro Leagues baseball game. in 1949 Henderson played for the team in the painting, the Kansas City Monarchs. 'It was my dream come true,' he said. The painting is part of a traveling exhibit, called 'Shades of Greatness,' at the San Diego Hall of Champions in Balboa Park.

Brothers Austin Sumdum, 10, and Chris Sumdum Jr., 13, of the Tlingit Eagle Wolf Clan wear wolf headdresses they were presented with when they were born during Spirit Days in Anchorage.

John Williams plays his bass during the Taylor County Bluegrass Festival in North Florida Friday (April 2, 2004) night.

A man reflects at a crusade in Mubende, Uganda. In the evening, he accepted Jesus as his lord and savior.

Two students of Reachout Village Ministries stand in the doorway of the room used to cook in. Reachout Village Ministries is a Christian ministry for orphans, most of whose parents died of HIV/ AIDS. Located outside Kampala, Uganda Reachout Village Ministries offers housing and schooling for around three hundred children, grade one to seven.

Greta Van Doren hangs wet laundry to dry outside her parents' home. She does most of the laundry in the house for her three sisters and parents. 'There is so much to see outside if you take the time to look,' says Greta. 'I could never live in the city because it's too dirty, too much concrete, not enough trees. I'd feel trapped with the lack of fresh air.'