Brothels and broken homes: Life after the quake, Haiti
A young boy, no older than 5 years old, reaches up to clutch my hand and lead me through claustrophobic alleyways weaving between closely packed tents. Beads of sweat roll down my forehead as I follow. The dead air is suffocatingly hot and heavy with the stench of garbage.
I am touched by the boy’s intentions, [...]
The gift of sight
A gift of reading glasses allows an elderly woman in Central Sulawesi to see clearly for the first time in years.
The human crocodile
Wirda, a saltwater crocodile, was raised from egg by this man and his family in Central Sulawesi. When she was getting a little too large for the house, they released her into the sea.
Several years later, the man answered a knock at the door to find Wirda waiting patiently to come in. She never left. [...]