While his daughters Aimee and Emily play in the living room, Jamie Silahua moves his belongings from the home he purchased 9 years ago in Antioch, CA. The Silahua’s are one of the many families in Contra Costa County who have had there home foreclosed. With the economy in turmoil and the rising bank payments, Jamie was forced to leave his home after not working enough to make the minimum payment. Jamie plans to take the bank to court in the future months and hopes to regain his home.

Sergio Malpera, 61 is in the final stages of cirrhosis of the liver, the consequence of life-long drinking. He is weak and tired and needs help doing simple things like getting dressed and cleaning. At this point all Sergio can eat are meal supplement drinks. A week after this image was taken in Sergio's apartment in Queens, NY his liver and kidneys failed. His daughter and former drinking buddy, Elda Malpera, recently sober after 20 years of substance abuse was with him when he died. “Seeing ...[what happened to] him instilled in me never to drink again. There’s nothing under the sun to make me drink again. I’ve seen my father suffer way too much. It’s a wake up call from God – this can happen to you.”

Ray Bailey wakes up in his Kamas, Utah home with his son, Justin, 23, who has autism. Because of Justin's history of running away, the two men sleep next to each other and Justin is rarely out of his parents' sight.

The Texas Kid shows off his mastery of animal husbandry as he rides a brazilian bull ontop of a tractor tailer during a rodeo performance at the fairgrounds in Haverhill New Hapmshire.

Sanjay Tamang, 13, bathes at the Disabled Newlife Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal with the help of the centre's assistant, Sharmila, who does not use a last name. Tamang suffered severe burns to his feet after walking into his family's cooking fire at a young age, resulting in the amputation of both feet. Many villagers in Nepal still cook over an open fire in their homes, which burns on the floor without protection. Babies and toddlers often crawl or walk into a fire when left unattended in their small homes. They also can grab hot food or tea from the fire, which spills and burns them. Estimates are difficult to calculate, but it is all too common in rural Nepalese villages to see children who are severely disabled by their burns.

Street children sleep by a storefront in downtown Kampala. UN statistics estimate that 2.3 million Ugandan children have lost parents due to HIV/AIDS. A large majority of these orphans are living on the streets of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Uganda's government run orphanages are under funded and overcrowded leaving a large percentage of orphaned children to live on the streets.