Ada Aden Hussein lives in the Mental Health Ward of Hargeisa Hospital, where she has worked for five years as an attendant. Ada took the job so she could take care of her daughter, who suffers from bipolar disorder, and her granddaughter. Hargeisa, Somalia. 2007.

Akaiyu, twenty-one, on a visit to a health clinic. Her infant son needed medicine for an eye infection. Her people, the Turkana, are nomads who migrate across the arid plains of northern Kenya in search of water and pasture. Akaiyu belongs to one of the settled communities near the Sudanese border. 2008.

Agness Nyirandibanzi lives on a government reserve in the hills above Gisenyi, Rwanda. Her people, the Twa, face discrimination because of their short stature, which distinguishes them from other Rwandans. They were murdered in great numbers during the 1994 genocide — a tragedy sometimes overlooked in historical accounts. The government moved Agness’s community from their forest home because it was designated as part of a national park. 2009.

Name unknown, a resident of Conneh Internally Displaced Persons Camp near Kakata, Liberia. The camp took its name from warlord Sekou Conneh. His rebels forced many of the people here to flee their homes during the civil war. 2005.