Wooden houses on stilts of Bocas del Toro town, Colon Island, Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Republic of Panama, Central America

Municipal laundry, Mahalaxmi dhobi ghat, Mumbai (Bombay), India, Asia

Traditional Indian professional hand laundry, Dhobi Ghat, and laundryman hanging clothes to dry in Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, India

Indian man pressing clothes in his workroom in Narlai village in Rajasthan, Northern India

Indian hand laundry, Dhobi Ghat, and laundrymen with traditional flogging stones to wash clothing at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, India

Locals in Cairo, Egypt

Laundry hanging out to dry in Zi Zhong Road, the old French Concession Quarter of Shanghai, China

Woman washing clothes outside shack, Godet, Haiti, island of Hispaniola, West Indies, Central America

Indian hand laundry, Dhobi Ghat, and laundrymen using traditional flogging stones to wash clothing at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, India

Traditional Indian professional hand laundry, Dhobi Ghat, in Mahalaxmi area of Mumbai, India

Traditional Indian professional hand laundry, Dhobi Ghat, in Mahalaxmi area of Mumbai, India

Domestic scene of laundry on washing line in village of Chenas, France

Boats on the beach in the fishing village of Cadgwith in Cornwall, South West England

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women welding joints during the construction of solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Solar cookers save women having to walk to the froest to cut down wood for cooking, thus saving the forests, and a daily chore for woman.

Women welding joints during the construction of solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Solar cookers save women having to walk to the froest to cut down wood for cooking, thus saving the forests, and a daily chore for woman.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women welding joints during the construction of solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Solar cookers save women having to walk to the froest to cut down wood for cooking, thus saving the forests, and a daily chore for woman.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India, demonstrate how hot the device is, by holding a sheet of newspaper which instantly sets on fire in the 300 degree Celcius heat. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women building solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

A women washing clothes in a mountain stream in Bukaya in the Fijian highlands, Fiji, Pacific

Nessled amongst the mud huts, girls have finnished cleaning the clothes and have hung them up to dry. Gulu, Uganda. Gulu Town, Uganda, East Africa

Mixed race woman carrying stack of clean towels

Caucasian woman walking in field of flowers

Tending the Laundry for drying, Dasaswamedh Ghat, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Tending the Laundry for drying, Dasaswamedh Ghat, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

street scene, in Dasaswamedh Ghat, Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Tending the Laundry for drying, Dasaswamedh Ghat, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Young male camper brushing his teeth, Freilassing, Bavaria, Germany

A child's soft toy hanging on washing line to dry after being washed

Woman in Sari sweeping steps, resting, Toorji Ka Jhalara, The Step Well, Jodphur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Textile recycling arrow symbol made from old clothing pieces

Clothesline with laundry in front of icebergs in Sermilik Fjord Tiniteqilaaq Eastgreenland

Clothes hanging on a clothesline, Providencia y Santa Catalina, San Andres y Providencia Department, Colombia

Clothes hanging on a clothesline, Providencia y Santa Catalina, San Andres y Providencia Department, Colombia

A Songhai woman kneeling in mud washing clothes in the Niger River, Gao, Mali, West Africa

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