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Government Service?

Government Service?

A woman with child awaits for the opening of a government office in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Curious Child

Curious Child

A girl at a farm in Western Uganda poses for a photograph

Brotherly Love

Brotherly Love

Two children pose besides the road in Lugari, Kenya.

Meeting Delivery Deadlines

Meeting Delivery Deadlines

Two men pushing a hand cart (mkokoteni) battle through traffic despite the presence of a high speed KCB Safari Rally vehicle passing nearby.

Storing Firewood

Storing Firewood

A stack of firewood is stored besides a mud hut in a farm compound in rural Gatundu in Kenya.

The Beggar

The Beggar

A beggar arranges his sitting area along Ngong Road near the Nairobi Baptist Church roundabout.

Traditional Homestead

Traditional Homestead

A traditional homestead in Lugari, Kenya. Two hand carts and a grazing sheep stand in front of the extension mud hut which is next to the main hut of the compound with a newly thatched grass roof.

The Roofs of Mathare

The Roofs of Mathare

A man walks past a video viewing store in Nairobi’s Mathare slums. The roofs of this sprawling slum stretches into the background. Approximately 500,000 people live within Mathare Valley with the 180,000 populating the oldest of the slums that make up Mathare.

Graffiti Wall

Graffiti Wall

Children hang out by a soccer pitch next to a graffiti wall in the Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Mathare Valley is home for hundreds of thousands of Kenyans.

Afternoon Nap

Afternoon Nap

A man sleeps on an island beside Mbagathi Way in Nairobi.

A Family That Farms Together…

A Family That Farms Together…

The Days of Small Beginnings

Joshua’s family are amazing, an example of small but significant contributions to the challenges that face Africa today. They have banded together to develop a cooperative small holder cooperative farming venture for their community in Western Kenya. Despite the fact that this is an affluent middle class, urban family, they have [...]

Destroyed Illegal Settlements

Destroyed Illegal Settlements

Former residents of a group of illegal structures await transportation in order to move to temporary housing after what was once their homes we torn down by the Nairobi City Council on the night of December 16th, 2009.

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