Afghan military soldiers train at the Afghan National Army (ANA) Academy in Kabul.

Afghan military soldiers train at the Afghan National Army (ANA) Academy in Kabul.

Afghan military soldiers train at the Afghan National Army (ANA) Academy in Kabul.

Afghan military officers parade at their graduation ceremony at the Afghan National Army (ANA) Academy.

Female police officers training with Kalashnikov rifles. NATO defence ministers have approved a mission to train the Afghan police in paramilitary skills in a bid to cut the force's soaring death rate...

Female police officers training with Kalashnikov rifles. NATO defence ministers have approved a mission to train the Afghan police in paramilitary skills in a bid to cut the force's soaring death rate...

Veiled girls during a lesson at their makeshift school.

A typing class given by Mr Innocent Lewis at the ITC Computer Training School Special Mass Computer Literacy Programme.

A typing class given by Mr Innocent Lewis at the ITC Computer Training School Special Mass Computer Literacy Programme.

Mathieu Toviehou of NGO GRABE Benin (Groupe de Recherche et d'Action pour le Bien-Etre/ Research and Action Group for Well-Being) showing two varieties of kola nut. Kola is historically important in t...

Mathieu Toviehou of NGO GRABE Benin (Groupe de Recherche et d'Action pour le Bien-Etre/ Research and Action Group for Well-Being) showing the extent of a 0.67ha sacred forest grove in the village of W...

A strip of red cloth signifies that the owner of a grove of oil palm trees has protected them with curses, and that misfortune will befall would-be thieves or trespassers. The belief in witchcraft and...

Mathieu Toviehou of NGO GRABE Benin (Groupe de Recherche et d'Action pour le Bien-Etre/ Research and Action Group for Well-Being) showing the extent of an approximately 1ha sacred forest grove in the...

Mathieu Toviehou of NGO GRABE Benin (Groupe de Recherche et d'Action pour le Bien-Etre/ Research and Action Group for Well-Being) showing a seed from one of the plant species the organisation is worki...

Lone trees that tower above the brush below stark reminders of how much forest has been lost. Often only trees with spiritual significance are left standing, while the forest that once surrounded them...

Felix Gbetekanlin, who estimates his age at 65, is a traditional healer and head of a committee responsible for the restoration of a heavily degraded sacred forest grove in the village of Agonme. The...

Traditional healer, Felix Gbetekanlin, who estimates his age at 65, showing forest flowers he uses in healing. He is the head of a committee responsible for the restoration of a heavily degraded sacre...

Sessouhouede Anagonou, who estimates her age at 67, collecting fallen wood for her cooking fire in a degraded sacred forest grove in the village of Agonme. The grove is now being protected following a...

Sessouhouede Anagonou, who estimates her age at 67, collecting fallen wood for her cooking fire in a degraded sacred forest grove in the village of Agonme. The grove is now being protected following a...

Rigobert Dossou, who estimates his age at 60, carrying cassava tubers on the edge of a degraded sacred forest grove in the village of Agonme. The grove is now being protected following a Forestry Insp...

A lone Kapok tree (Ceiba petandra) on the edge of a sacred forest grove in the village of Agonme. Often only trees with spiritual significance are left standing, while the forest that once surrounded...

A home in the village of Agonme. The village is bordered by the vestiges of a sacred forest which is now being protected following a Forestry Inspectorate project that sought to demarcate 42 tradition...

Beninese scientists and conservationists Gboja Mariano Houngbedji (left) and Chrystelle Dakpogan. The couple founded local NGO ODDB (Organisation pour le Developpement Durable et la Biodiversite/ Orga...

Kakpo Somonnin, a diviner, on the site of what is intended to be a forest education centre in the Tobe protected forest. Some 350 hectares in area, the forest had been severely degraded by agriculture...

Appolinaire Oussou Lio, the founder of the NGO GRABE Benin (Groupe de Recherche et d'Action pour le Bien-Etre/ Research and Action Group for Well-Being), which uses a mix of the modern and the traditi...

Helene Tovitounhlan (40), standing in a bed of forest plants used in traditional healing in the village of Kotan. The forest garden is an initiative of the NGO GRABE Benin, (Groupe de Recherche et d'A...

Sedogbo Mehounou (72) is a member of a village committee responsible for a small sacred Oro secret society forest grove in the village of Kotan. Local NGO GRABE Benin (Groupe de Recherche et d'Action...

Semassa Adande is a member of a village committee responsible for a tiny sacred forest grove in the village of Wamon. The forest is important to members of the Oro cult, but as is often the case, only...

Raymond Hinnouhou Adokpo (77) is the guardian of a kapok tree (Ceiba petandra) said to be centuries old that towers above the village of Kogbome. Though the forest that once surrounded it has been all...

Felix Gbetekanlin, who estimates his age at 65, is a traditional healer and head of a committee responsible for the restoration of a heavily degraded sacred forest grove in the village of Agonme. The...

Beninese conservationist Yves Olatoundji showing a children's puzzle at a conservation education centre in the village of Gbineji along the Oueme River. Using a combination of methods including reinfo...

Beninese conservationist Yves Olatoundji opening the doors to a conservation education centre in the village of Gbineji along the Oueme River. Using a combination of methods including reinforcing trad...

Simple accommodations for staff and volunteers at a conservation education centre in the village of Gbineji along the Oueme River. Using a combination of methods including reinforcing traditional beli...

Using an Android tablet and mobile app to record plant biodiversity in a small sacred forest grove near the village of Dekanme along the Oueme River. What was once a forest has dwindled to a grove of...

Using an Android tablet and mobile app to record plant biodiversity in a small sacred forest grove near the village of Dekanme along the Oueme River. What was once a forest has dwindled to a grove of...

Beninese conservationist Alfred Oga supervising a biodiversity survey in a small sacred forest grove near the village of Dekanme along the Oueme River in Benin. What was once a forest has dwindled to...

Fabienne Boton (30) using an Android tablet and mobile app to record plant biodiversity in a small sacred forest grove near the village of Dekanme along the Oueme River. What was once a forest has dw...

Local youth cross the Oueme River to a small sacred forest grove on the opposite bank, where they will use Android tablets and a mobile app to conduct a biodiversity survey. What was once a forest ha...

A man rubs his eyes as local youth cross the Oueme River to a small sacred forest grove on the opposite bank, where they will use Android tablets and a mobile app to conduct a biodiversity survey. Wh...

Local youth waiting in the village of Dekanme to board pirogues and cross the Oueme River to a small sacred forest grove on the opposite bank, where they will use Android tablets and a mobile app to c...

A sign explaining COVID-19 restrictions in place at a fun fair (before opening) on waste ground. In the background, the three masts of a sailing vessel at the National Museum of the Royal Navy appear...

Fareeba, who set herself on fire in 2009, shows her burn scars as her mother brushes her hair at their home in Herat. Forced marriages and a lack of education contribute to a recent spate of suicide a...

Zahra, who set herself on fire in 2006, reveals her burn scars at a hostel which provides training in vocational skills in Herat. The hostel is run by the Association for Cooperation with Afghanistan...

A class of boys study the Quran at the Islami Noor madrassa.

Female police officers training with Kalashnikov rifles. NATO defence ministers have approved a mission to train the Afghan police in paramilitary skills in a bid to cut the force's soaring death rate...

Young women studying in the city's main high school.

Boys and girls study in a clandestine school where the windows were covered up to hide their activity. The Taliban had closed down the girls' schools in Herat 18 months earlier, but the community set...

Alicia Sandoval, 31, with her family at her parents' house in San Bernardino. She says she is very close to her parents and siblings who have supported throughout her career, helping her with money fo...

Teissy Angel works at the home she lives in with her boyfriend juggling full time work and school. Teissy Angel, 25, was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her parents brought her and her identical twin to the...

Gloria Itzel Montiela, 33, (yellow dress) stands at the border of Mexico and the United States with other Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in a trip she organised to San Ysidro...

Gloria Itzel Montiel, 33, opens paper flowers, which she will hang on her car when she congratulates students from Santa Ana High School for receiving the scholarship that she created. Gloria gave a t...

Alicia Sandoval, 31, at her home in Upland. She loves Disneyland, she has a season pass and sometimes (before the pandemic) she would go just to spend her evening there, with company or on her own....

Alicia Sandoval, 31, cleans an office in San Bernardino. Her family has had a cleaning business, 'Sandoval Janitorial Services', since she was little girl. Alicia has always helped her parents out in...

Jessica Garcia Garcia, 22, at her job at a grocery store in Marina del Rey. One of her jobs is to do 'quick shop' for customers which involves shopping for them and delivering the groceries directly t...

Jessica Garcia Garcia, 22, at her job at a grocery store in Marina del Rey. One of her jobs is to do 'quick shop' for customers which involves shopping for them and delivering the groceries directly t...

Jessica Garcia Garcia, 22, in her her home in Los Angeles. When the pandemic started Jessica was attending UC Santa Cruz and had to pack up her belongings and leave the dorms to come back to her paren...

Jessica Garcia Garcia, 22, moves out of her home in Los Angeles. When the pandemic started Jessica was attending UC Santa Cruz and had to pack up her belongings and leave the dorms to come back to her...

Alicia Sandoval, 31, offers health education by phone to a patient at Park Tree Community Center in Ontario. She also offers COVID-19 related information to patients. The centre does not refuse servic...

Gloria Itzel Montiel accepts a bag from her grandmother after delivering food to her with her brother, Israel, while assisting families in need during the pandemic in Santa Ana. The bag from her grand...

A teacher reads to children in a public primary school in the village of Sourgou.

A woman and her children beside a poster of a policeman in a face mask, part of a COVID-19 prevention campaign.

Women learning how to sew at vocation and education centre funded by Turkey.

Women attended a Turkish language class at a vocation and education centre funded by Turkey.

A cook prepares food for the school canteen at the Denro associative school is a major element in encouraging parents and pupils to continue their studies. For many families, poor or internally displa...

Pre-school children in a class at the artisanal granite quarry in Pissy. Since 2005, UNICEF has sought to eradicate child labour in mines and quarries, in particular that of Pissy. One of the initiat...

A teacher walks between desks at the public primary school in the village of Sourgou.

Aicha (13) with Attika (39) arriving late at school. With a critical lack of information on contraception among young people, Aicha found herself pregnant with Attika, whom she will marry shortly on a...

Rosalie (L) in her third and last year of hairdressing training at the Foyer Sainte Maria de Goretti. She fled her family to avoid forced marriage. On the right Odile, in her first year of training, a...

A mural on a wall at the Foyer Sainte Maria de Goretti which since 1951 has been welcoming young girls fleeing early and forced marriages. 110 girls are currently in this home which provides them with...

The mother superior, Sister Veronique talks with Abibou (13), who fled a child marriage, at the Foyer Sainte Maria de Goretti which since 1951 has been welcoming young girls fleeing early and forced m...

Abibou (13) (right), who arrived at the home a year ago to escape a child marriage, does her studies with one of her friends in their dormitory at the Foyer Sainte Maria de Goretti which since 1951 ha...

Abibou (13) and Edith dancing in the grounds of the Foyer Sainte Maria de Goretti. Both girls fled forced child marriages and have found refuge at the centre which, since 1951, has been welcoming youn...

Roger (13) eats a meal of rice and beans with a fellow apprentice. Roger has been an apprentice bicycle repairer since October 2020. Following the COVID-19 economic crisis, and the closing of the bord...

Children sit at their desks in a crowded class at the Zoodnooma Primary Public School.

Pupils in a class at the Denro de Koudougou association which offers a mixed sport-study football course from primary school onwards. The first in West Africa, and probably in Africa, it helps motivat...

Children in a crowded class at the Zoodnooma Primary Public School.

Pupils gathered in the schoolyard for a flag raising ceremony at the Sougrinooma private high school.

Rachel (left, sitting) studies at the home of a classmate who has an electric light at her house as she is from a poor family who have no electricity at home.

Emilienne (13) meets some of her old school friends while out selling mangos which she has been doing since October 2020. As a result of the economic crisis, linked to COVID-19, her grandmother's busi...

Students in a classroom at the Denro de Koudougou association which offers completely free schooling to children.

Children in the schoolyard at the Zoodnooma Primary Public School.

The school canteen at the Denro associative school is a major element in encouraging parents and pupils to continue their studies. For many families, poor or internally displaced due to armed conflict...

The Denro de Koudougou association offers completely free education to the poorest children. In addition to free schooling and the canteen, the Denro association provides a bicycle to each student to...

Rachel (left) studies at the home of a classmate who has an electric light at her house as she is from a poor family who have no electricity at home.

Roger (13) (right) fixes a puncture with a fellow apprentice. Roger has been an apprentice bicycle repairer since October 2020. Following the COVID-19 economic crisis, and the closing of the borders,...

Roger (13), who has been an apprentice bicycle repairer since October 2020, moves a motor scooter. Following the COVID-19 economic crisis, and the closing of the borders, his father, a mason, lost a l...

Roger (13) (right) with a fellow apprentices. Roger has been an apprentice bicycle repairer since October 2020. Following the COVID-19 economic crisis, and the closing of the borders, his father, a ma...

Roger (13) collecting water from the well at his home. Roger has been an apprentice bicycle repairer since October 2020. Following the COVID-19 economic crisis, and the closing of the borders, his fat...

Two friends talking before school starts at Barnato Park High School.

An anti-apartheid banner calling for 'Youth Action for Democractic Education and Elections'. The poster displays the date of the Sowetto Uprising, June 16, and an artist's version of Sam Nzima's photo...