Vietnamese school girls, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Koran class in a village, Guiranwala District, Punjab, Pakistan, Asia

Two school girls in traditional Ao Dai on a bicycle in the Mekong Delta region south of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Schoolchildren in classroom, offering traditional Kikuyu welcome by waving hands as if offering flowers, Karunga Primary School, Rift Valley, Kenya, East Africa, Africa

View of school girls smiling for camera in traditional Zulu village, Veyane Cultural Village, Khula, Khula Village, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, Africa

Music, Conjunto folklorico Cutumba, School of the traditional dance, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Central America

Education, pakistan. Punjab. Maths class using traditional methods in a primary state school

Dharmalshalla students from mezakhang (traditional tibetan school of medicine) picking plants as a practical exercise their class dealing with taxanomy of plants. Rhotang pass, manali, india

Dharmalshalla students from mezakhang (traditional tibetan school of medicine) picking plants as a practical exercise their class dealing with taxanomy of plants. Rhotang pass, manali, india

Thailand girl giving traditional greeting at a school for burmese migrants, bangkok

Portrait of Caucasian brothers posing near house

Medersa or Madrasa el-Attarine,medina, Fez el Bali, Fez, Morocco

Bou Inania medersa, Meknes. Morocco

Medersa or Madrasa el-Attarine,medina, Fez el Bali, Fez, Morocco

Medersa Abu al-Hassan, Sale, near Rabat, Morocco

European blonde girl giving the hand and sharing with a black children boy in the primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

Nuns praying before eating their meals, Sakyadhita Thilashin Nunnery School, Sagaing, near Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

Nuns queuing for a meal, Sakyadhita Thilashin Nunnery School, Sagaing, near Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

A young nun studying, Sakyadhita Thilashin Nunnery School, Sagaing, near Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

Nuns queuing for a meal, Sakyadhita Thilashin Nunnery School, Sagaing, near Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

Nuns praying before eating, Sakyadhita Thilashin Nunnery School, Sagaing, near Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

A young nun at the Sakyadhita Thilashin Nunnery School, Sagaing, near Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

Nuns eating their meals, Sakyadhita Thilashin Nunnery School, Sagaing, near Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

Inside primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

Inside primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

Inside primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

Inside primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

Inside primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

Inside primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

European blonde girls inside Inside primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

Outside primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

Outside primary and second school in a small village near Kitui city in the Kamba country in Kenya, Africa.

young monk with calligraphy brush, evening school, Xixiang Chi monastery and temple, Elephant Bathing Pool, China, Asia, World Heritage Site, UNESCO

Samba school Portela, Carnaval 2010, Sambodromo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Samba school Unidos do Porto da Pedra, Carnaval 2010, Sambodromo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien, Suedamerika

Samba dancer and model Luiza Brunet, Imperatriz Leopoldense samba school, Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2010, Brazil, South America

Uniao da Ilha samba school, dancer, Carnaval 2010, Sambodromo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America

Dancer of Uniao da Ilha samba school at the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2010, Brazil, South America

Girl practicing calligraphy, one of the selected children in the Children's Palace, Pyongyang, North Korea, Asia

Unidos da Tijuca samba school, laughing young woman in costume, Carnaval 2010, Sambodromo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America

Selected children practicing calligraphy in the Children's Palace, Pyongyang, North Korea, Asia

Dancer of Uniao da Ilha samba school at the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2010, Brazil, South America

Samba school Portela, Carnaval 2010, Sambodromo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Selected children practicing calligraphy in the Children's Palace, Pyongyang, North Korea, Asia

Dancer of the Academicos do Salgueiro samba school at the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2010, Brazil, South America

Musicians of the Uniao da Ilha samba school at the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2010, Brazil, South America

Students in the traditional ao dai dress on the way to school Vietnam

Children at a kindergarten, Cameroon, Africa

View of the Sambadrom, architect Oscar Niemeyer, during the parade of the Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel samba school, Carnaval 2010, Sambodromo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America

Samba dancers on an allegorical float of the Beija-Flor de Nikopol samba school at the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2010, Brazil, South America

View of the Sambadrom, architect Oscar Niemeyer, during the parade of the Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel samba school, Carnaval 2010, Sambodromo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America

Allegorical float of the Beija-Flor de Nikopol samba school at the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2010, Brazil, South America

Samba school Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel, Carnaval 2010 Sambodromo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America

Allegorical float of the Beija-Flor de Nikopol samba school at the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2010, Brazil, South America

Happy graduated adult man wearing a bachelor gown and a black mortarboard and showing his diploma while looking at camera

Happy graduated man in a black gown jumping while holding his diploma

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.”

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.”

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.”

School children standing by the eternal flame dedicated to the 1.5 million people killed during the Armenian Genocide in the Armenian Genocide memorial complex on Tsitsernakaberd hill, Yerevan, Armenia

Burundi, Cibitoke Province, Buganda, Ruhagurika Primary Students in their Catch-Up Class. Catch up classes were established by Concern Worldwide across a number of schools in Cibitoke to provide a second chance for children who had previously dropped out of school.