New born southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) pup with mother, Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands, South America

New born southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) pup with mother, Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands, South America

New born southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) pups and mothers on a beach, Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands, South America

Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) mother and 6-month old baby in captivity, Rio Grande Zoo, Albuquerque Biological Park, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, North America

Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) mother with a baby joey in her pouch in the Blue Mountains Area, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

The Bahai Lotus Temple, serving as the Mother Temple of the Indian Subcontinent, New Delhi, India, Asia

Family walking on Tapeka Point, Russell, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Pacific

Eastern Grey Kangaroo, (Macropus giganteus), Pebbly Beach, Marramarang N.P., New South Wales, Australia

Mother walking on street with two young girls, Chautauqua, New York State, United States of America, North America

Eastern grey kangaroo and joey, Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Women and children with body decoration, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, Pacific

Tibetan mother and son in traditional clothes at Lhosar (Tibetan and Sherpa New Year) festival, Bodhnath stupa, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bagmati, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Indonesia mother child built in banda aceh by. Baby receiving immunization shot. Photograph taken in banda aceh, -december 2006, 2 years after tsunami of december 26th 2004 devasted much of coastal region. Taken to illustrate reconstruction work projects of (catholic relief services) of sponsored photo tour

Flightless steamer duck (tachyceres brachypterus) new island, falkland islands, mother calling, with group of chicks sat on beach.

Indonesia mother child built in banda aceh by. Photograph taken in banda aceh, -december 2006, 2 years after tsunami of december 26th 2004 devasted much of coastal region. Taken to illustrate reconstruction work projects of (catholic relief services) of sponsored photo tour

Nomad birth. Today i born into family of buddhas; a child of buddhas i’ve become today. -santideva. Tibet

Flightless steamer duck (tachyceres brachypterus) new island, falkland islands, group of chicks with mother, sitting on the beach.

India. Small house of michael and jophy jaison. House building project funded by social services department of ernakulum diocese by father jose thottakara, kerala

Big male Hookerís Sea Lion (Phocarctos Hookeri) checking out its next mate. Sandy Bay, Auckland Island, Subantarctic New Zealand.

Big male Hookerís Sea Lion (Phocarctos Hookeri) checking out its next mate. Sandy Bay, Auckland Island, Subantarctic New Zealand.

This new born calf with its mother graceful glide together as the mother protects her calf and the calf learns essential behaviour to survive the open ocean. taken in Vava'u Tonga South Pacific

A new born lamb and mother, Yorkshire Dales National Park, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Female Hooker’s Sea Lions (Phocarctos Hookeri) and a puppy in between. Sandy Bay, Auckland Island, Subantarctic New Zealand. (RR)

Hectors dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) - mother and juvenile. Akaroa, New Zealand

Hookers sealion (Phocarctos hookeri) mother with pup. Enderby Island, Subantarctic islands, New Zealand, Southern ocean.

A new born lamb and mother, Yorkshire Dales National Park, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) - mother and calf at surface, Akaroa, New Zealand.

Multi-ethnic family holding bowl of eggs next to chickens

Multi-ethnic family in truck at farm stand

Indian boy putting fruit in shopping cart

Caucasian mother and daughter playing with chick in garden

Older couple toasting with wine in restaurant

Mother talking on telephone while holding baby son in kitchen

Caucasian mother and daughter planting seedling in garden

Mother reading cookbook while holding baby son

Mother holding asparagus and baby son

Caucasian mother and daughter planting seedling in garden

Mother and son planting in garden

Close up of bowl of salad on lunch table

Hispanic mother and daughter with bowl of eggs next to chickens

Caucasian mother and daughter planting seedling in garden

Caucasian girl eating strawberry while camping

Young girl eating a leaf of lettuce at the dinner table

Caucasian mother and son holding carrots in garden

Hispanic mother and son eating fruit in kitchen

Hispanic mother and son with bowl of eggs

Caucasian baby girl playing with fresh carrot

Adoration of the Magi painting, Saint Bartholomew,??s Church, Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

The medical team performing cesarean sections. The doctor holds the baby after birth to his mother to see. This image was taken at AIIMS hospital, New Delhi, on March 2015.

Maternity Ward, Nurse Instructing New Mother

Red Kangaroo, (Macropus rufus), female with subadult, Sturt Nationalpark, New South Wales, Australia

Orthodox church of the Holy Mother of God and the new business center of Vilnius in the back, Lithuania, Vilnius

A woman and a girl having breakfast on the balcony, Rowendale Homestead, Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand

Mother with child on hanging bridge, track to Blue Pools, east of Haast Pass, Southern Alps, South Island, New Zealand

Mother and daughter playing at Pakawau beach, Golden Bay, northern coast of South Island, New Zealand

Mother with children hiking through shallow water, Wharariki Beach, northwest coast, South Island, New Zealand

Orthodox church of the Holy Mother of God and the new business center of Vilnius in the back, Lithuania, Vilnius

Mother and children playing at the beach of Little Okains Bay at low tide, Okains Bay, Bank`s Peninsula, east coast, South Island, New Zealand

Mother with children on the beach at lowtide, Wharariki Beach, northwest coast, South Island, New Zealand

Mother with children hiking at Wharariki Beach, northwest coast, South Island, New Zealand

Maori carving, wooden relief with mother of pearl inlays, figural representation and ornaments, Maori Meeting House, Waitangi Treaty Grounds, Waitangi, North Island, New Zealand

New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri), dam with young on rock, Kaikoura, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania

Eastern giant grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), adult, female, mother with young, in pouch, on grassland, social behaviour, Maloney Beach, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Young family mother and little boy son wrapping packing Christmas gifts for family members while standing at table near beautiful decorated xmas tree at home, kid preparing New Year presents with mom

View from above of happy large family with many children celebrating Christmas or New Year eve together at cozy warm home, gathering around festive holiday table with delicious traditional xmas food

Eastern giant grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), adult, female, mother with young, in a meadow, Maloney Beach, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), adult, female, juvenile, looking into pouch, on grassland, Maloney Beach, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Zainabu Ramadhani, 19, (yellow and red patterned skirt) her mother Fatma Mziray, age 38, (blue head dress) and Fatma’s sister-in-law Zaitun Hamad, 18, (orange wrap and white top) walk home after gathering firewood near Fatma’s home in Mforo. Mforo is near Moshi, Tanzania. 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.”

Ester Hodari, age 22 years old, cooks dinner using the traditional three-rock cook stove with a fire in the middle. These cookstoves use a lot of fuel, firewood, and produce a lot of smoke. Ester told us that cooking with this type of stove made her eyes turn red and she often had a chest cough. Her children, ages 5, 2 and 3 months are often with her when she is cooking. Her sister-in-law, Shadya Jumanne, age 11, helps her cook as well. Not long ago Ester’s 3 month-old developed a cough, It kept getting worse and so they took her by motorcycle to the hospital at night. Ester started really worrying about this. After this Ester and her husband agreed that they needed to buy a clean cookstove and started saving. The girl helping Ester cook in some of the images is her sister-in-law Shadya Jumanne, age 11. Ester met Solar Sister entrepreneur Fatma Mziray when she married her husband and moved to this village, Mforo near Moshi, Tanzania. Ester said that Fatma is like a mother to her in the village. When Fatma showed Ester the new wood stove she saw that is used less wood and produced less smoke.

Zainabu Ramadhani, 19, (yellow and red patterned skirt) her mother Fatma Mziray, age 38, (blue head dress) and Fatma’s sister-in-law Zaitun Hamad, 18, (orange wrap and white top) walk home after gathering firewood near Fatma’s home in Mforo. Mforo is near Moshi, Tanzania. 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.”

Zainabu Ramadhani, 19, (yellow and red patterned skirt) her mother Fatma Mziray, age 38, (blue head dress) and Fatma’s sister-in-law Zaitun Hamad, 18, (orange wrap and white top) walk home after gathering firewood near Fatma’s home in Mforo. Mforo is near Moshi, Tanzania. 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.”

Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown, Manila, Philippines

Mother nature displays its colors over the quintessential New England road up to Mount Greylock.

A Pregnant Woman

A pregnant woman swimming underwater, Tarifa cadiz andalusia spain

Portrait of infant baby girl with mother at home, mother kissing baby on the cheek; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

A young man with Down Syndrome learns a new program on a tablet with his father and mother while enjoying each other's company in a city park on a warm fall evening; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

A young man with Down Syndrome learns a new program on a tablet with his father and mother while enjoying each other's company in a city park on a warm fall evening: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Mother showing image on smart phone to baby daughter; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Five Goslings Following The Mother Goose

A Foal Drinks Milk From It's Mother, Tarifa, Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain

Papua New Guinea, Rabaul, The Mother Volcano, green mountainside with ocean and clouds

A woman taking picture of her children with a smart phone in white sand dunes landscape under blue sky, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, United States

Three people, two adults and a child relaxing on a jetty, with their feet in the water at the end of a day, Kingston, New York, USA

Mother and her six year old son embracing, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, United States

A teenage girl braiding her mothers hair, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, United States

Mother giving her baby girl a piggyback ride on nature path by a thermal pool, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand

Portrait of mother and her children, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, United States

Family exploring the Tsankawi Ruins in New Mexico climbing up steps

Mother taking picture of son sledding on sand dunes, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, United States

Mother applying sunblock to her child, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, United States

Woman walking in white sand dunes, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, United States

Teenage girl and her younger brother on top of SUV on desert road, New Mexico, United States of America

mother and her children sitting on rocks at a desert historic site in New Mexico

mother and her 5 year old son walking on a path in the New Mexico desert

A mother and her teenage daughter side by side, arms around waists, in an open space, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, United States

Rear view of adult woman and her teenage daughter hiking in the Galisteo Basin, New Mexico, United States of America

A teenage girl walking across sand dunes leaving footprints, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, United States

Two Spinecheek clownfish, Premnas aculeatus, Papua New Guinea, Pacific ocean

Woman reading to son