Swimming lessons at the YMCA pool.

A cook walks by children as they wait to eat at Reachout Village Ministries outside Kampala, Uganda.

Pastor Daniel Nkata reaches his hand to the sky while praying at a crusade in Mubende, Uganda. Daniel Nkata is the director of Reachout Village Ministries and organizer of the crusade.

Sierra Jenkins, 4, left. and her brother, Damani Jenkins, 7, play on their neighbor's trampoline in Bowling Green, Ky. The children are growing up in a low income household and do not have many of their own toys.

Moving south from Detroit in the early 1960s, Bert and his wife, Matty, chose a house near Detroit Edison's Enrico Fermi Electrical Plant. The landmark can be seen for miles around the county, known more for its farms than its towns. 'I never really worried about it much,' says Bert. 'The wind blows the other way.'

When patients are first brought to Anbaham Home for Mentally Ill Orphans in Chennai, India, they are shaved of all their body hair for sanitary reasons. Potential patients are identified on the streets by Anbaham staff, evaluated for mental illness, and brought to the home in hopes of finding their families.

A different view of the gateway to the west.

10-year-old DeeDee lives with her mother and six siblings in the Shaw neighborhood of south St. Louis. Shaw is a very historically rich and culturally diverse area as a whole, but remains quite segregated block by block.