Portrait of a family, three generations, including a boy on a donkey, outside their painted house in the alabaster village of Dra Abul Naga, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Traditional Irish brown and grey donkeys in The Burren, County Clare, West of Ireland

Tajik boys ride donkeys past irrigated wheat fields, on the edge of the Tajik village of Dera Jawal, at the base of the Band-e Baba range, Herat Province, Afghanistan

Young boys on donkeys watch over flocks of goats, sheep and donkeys near the top of the Shebar Pass, which crosses into the Province of Bamiyan. Due to a devastating drought in the region, dry wheat farming has failed for three years from 1998-2002 and the forage is extremely sparse, The pass is a strategic point leading into the Central Highlands, the Koh-i-Baba range and the Hazarajat, at the end of the Hindu Kush. Most of the people of this region are of the Hazara tribe, and are Shi'a Moslems who have been persecuted for centuries by many of the Pashtun rulers of Afghanistan, who are from the Sunni sect.

A cowboy wrangles a herd of horses and donkeys in the pastures of Hacienda Las Trancas, a 450 year old structure located near three Spanish Colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, and Dolores Hidalgo.