Boat trip, Petite Venise (Little Venice), Colmar, Haut Rhin, Alsace, France, Europe

Place de la Cathedrale, Strasbourg, Alsace, France, Europe

Husband and wife outside their bamboo house in a river village with their precious rice crop drying on a plastic sheet, Assam, India, Asia

Tashilhunpo monastery, Xigaze town, Tibet, China, Asia

Fiji losalina, 27, with her husband suliano, 36 and son kiso, 2, taveuni photo by sean sprague

East timor. Husband and wife with maize seeds and onions which they will plant next year, oecussi-ambeno

Traditional South Korean dolls in a house belonging to a South Korean emigre in China, Asia

Smiling couple talking in corridor of house under renovation

Caucasian couple posing near wooden fence with baby daughter

Proud Caucasian family posing at front stoop of house with dogs

Couple talking in house under renovation

Smiling family wrapped in towels

Smiling couple posing in empty house

Caucasian couple posing near house with baby daughter

Family playing soccer in backyard

Multi-ethnic couples sitting at outdoor table

Caucasian couple posing on lawn with baby daughter

Men carrying girlfriends piggyback in sand

African American boy with baseball and glove

Family playing football in backyard

Men carrying girlfriends piggyback outdoors

Man carrying girlfriend piggyback on wooden deck

Mother, father and sons smiling outdoors

Friends eating watermelon in backyard

African American man carrying girlfriend

Afghan family has fled Narkh district to maidan (capital of Wardak province) due to fighting between taliban and Hesb-i-islami.

Mforo, Tanzania a village near Moshi, Tanzania. Solar Sister entrepreneur Fatma Mziray and her eldest daughter Zainabu Ramadhani, 19 cook lunch in her kitchen house using both a clean cookstove using wood and one using coal. One of her younger daughters, Nasma Ramadhani, age 5 helps out. Fatma Mziray is a Solar Sister entrepreneur who sells both clean cookstoves and solar lanterns. Fatma heard about the cookstoves from a Solar Sister development associate and decided to try one out. The smoke from cooking on her traditional wood stove using firewood was causing her to have a lot of heath problems, her lungs congested her eyes stinging and her doctor told her that she had to stop cooking that way. Some days she felt so bad she couldn't go in to cook. Fatma said, “Cooking for a family, preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner I used to gather a large load of wood every day to use. Now with the new cook stove the same load of wood can last up to three weeks of cooking. “With the extra time I can develop my business. I also have more time for the family. I can monitor my children’s studies. All of this makes for a happier family and a better relationship with my husband. Since using the clean cookstove no one has been sick or gone to the hospital due to flu.” Fatma sees herself helping her community because she no longer sees the people that she has sold cookstoves have red eyes, coughing or sick like they used to be. She has been able to help with the school fees for her children, purchase items for the home and a cow. “What makes me wake up early every morning and take my cookstoves and go to my business is to be able to take my family to school as well as to get food and other family needs.”

A husband and his paraplegic wife posing for a family photo in their front yard on a warm fall day: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

A young family posing for a family portrait outdoors in their front yard and the mother is a paraplegic in a wheelchair; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

A young family posing for a family portrait outdoors in their front yard and the mother is a paraplegic in a wheelchair; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Senior Couple Standing In Their Home Garden, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

Husband and wife communicating in American Sign Language about 'Oh, OK' at home

A young family posing for a family portrait outdoors in their front yard and the mother is a paraplegic in a wheelchair; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Elderly couple pose together outside their home, Elkhorn, Nebraska, United States of America

A Couple Posing Together On A White Wall On A Greek Island With The Town In The Background, Santorini, Greece

Man after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery with wife and daughter at home

Woman signing the word 'Kiss' in American Sign Language while kissing her husband

Man after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery with his wife kissing her daughter at home

Caucasian family eating breakfast in backyard

Japanese woman, man and little boy sitting on floor on porch of traditional Japanese house, playing Go, Kyushu, Japan

Woman spraying man with hose in backyard

Couple playing tug-of-war with towel

Family barbequing on deck

Family barbequing on deck

Couple playing tug-of-war with towel

Family barbequing on deck

Couple hugging in swimming pool

Family barbequing on deck

Couple barbequing on deck