Severely disabled and abandoned at birth, 124 children live at the Ba Vi Orphanage and Elderly home near Hanoi, Vietnam. They are believed to be 3rd generation Agent Orange(a defoliant used by the US military during the Vietnam War) victims, but nothing is known about their family history and the center lacks the resources to conduct medical tests to prove such a link.

Teenagers find love on the Charles Bridge. Prague, Czech Republic. December 06, 2006.

Mary Francis Stovall, 69, Bowling Green, Ky., lives with over 30 cats in her home. 'They are my family because I don't have any family left,' Stovall said. 'It's kind of a weird family. But they are my children and I am with them all the time.'

The Hewitt family packs into their 15-passenger van to head to their home in Creola, Ohio, from grocery shopping on Oct. 2, 2006. In order to feed the family of 14, the Hewitts use food stamps and stock the pantry once a week from the discount grocery store 45 minutes away. 'The kids eat so much and this store is so much cheaper,' Bertha, the mother, says.

An elementary school student walks into a 22-foot inflatable earth during an Education Festival designed to teach youth about International issues.

Attilio Tarzi, 89, gives his wife Abbie a kiss before leaving for work at his son's Clarksdale, Ms. restaraunt. 'I've got two places,' Attilio Tarzi said. 'If I'm not here [home], I'm at Delta Amusement.' Tarzi, who once worked as a traveling salesman throughout the Mississippi Delta, now spends his afternoons talking to patrons at Delta Amusement.

Dan Anderson, 17, Alfonso Johnson, 16, Kayla Keeler, 15, Sarah Kersteter, 13, Shanelle Dupuis, 15, Memory Felten, 15, and Ashley Jones, 16 hang out on a street corner in Battle Ground, WA. In recent years the population of Clark County has experienced tremendous growth as Portland city dwellers move to smaller suburban communities outside of the city boundaries.

Ismael Gusman, 10, does a front flip from the top on his grandfather's truck on to a pile of hay, while his cousin, Issac Garcia Lemus, 6, (right), climbs up on the truck to jump next. Gusman and Lemus, both live on their grandfather's farm outside of San Luis, Mexico, and play often on the equipment that is scattered throughout the property.