• McDowell County children bounce and tumble in the moonwalk set up for a School For Life, Inc. picnic outside the Old Gary School in Gary, West Virginia on June 16, 2008. The children have few opportunities for community activities in an old coal-mining county now listed as one of the poorest in the nation.
  • Flowers sprout in a field next to a dirt road that meanders through the mountains in Catadupa, Jamaica.
  • A Sudanese girl leans back in the sun on a Kennedy Park swing in Portland, Maine on June 25, 2008. As the second largest Catholic Charities refugee city in the nation, Portland serves as a harbor for hundreds of Somali and Sudanese refugee families (among other nationalities).
  • Ayden Hughes, 17 months, grasps the edge of a laundry basket at Splasher's Laundry Mat on a Sunday evening in an attempt to free himself while his mother, 27-year-old Jessica Rice, holds him back. Alora, 8, left, and Aleah, 6, right, were told to watch their little brother to make sure "he don't get into all sorts of trouble."
  • The stairs of the Old Gary School in Gary, West Virginia. The building houses School for Life, Inc. volunteers for ongoing housing repair projects for McDowell County residents.
  • A group of Jamaican men gather after dark to play dominos by the light of a nearby Rasta shack in Catadupa, Jamaica on July 15, 2008.
  • Clothes stretch on a line behind 52-year-old Almena Wright's one-room house in Cambridge, Jamaica, where she lives with her three children.
  • Katie Arreguin of Findlay, Ohio walks the line  in Catadupa, Jamaica on her way to Christian Fellowship Church on July 6, 2008. The railway line, spanning across the country from Kingston to Montego Bay, shut down in 1992, leaving many rural residents like those of Catadupa to the mercy of privately owned buses.
  • A group of Latino boys sit outside a trailer home in Colony South Trailer Park in South Atlanta, an older man laughing at their stoic pose. Children in the community claim that Latin Kings, a widespread gang in the South, have claimed the area their own, where around 60 families currently live.
  • Juliet of the Colony South Trailer Park in South Atlanta, looks out her front door, waiting for her 18-year-old mother s permission to go out and play on July 23, 2008. The family is one of about 60 that live in the park, where local Salvation Army soldiers believe hundreds of illegal immigrants are keeping under the radar,  and in effect, living without the usual resources of most American neighborhoods.
  • Teens span out across the Olympic ring fountain after it has shut off on a Friday afternoon at Centennial Park in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Children play with bubbles at the Christian Community Center in West Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Danielle McHugh, 19, glances away and stifles a laugh when her friends beside her ask, What? We aren t pretty enough for a picture?  McHugh runs a non-Profit called Clean Energy Works For Missouri,  and today, September 12, 2008, her crew and supporters head off for a Missouri Clean Energy Initiative Rally in St. Louis from downtown Columbia, Mo.
  • Brooke Finley, 2, peeks from behind the chair her four-year-old sister, Kaleigh, stands on to help their grandmother make lunch on June 16, 2008. Finley was born addicted to crack cocaine and methamphetamine as a result of her mother s drug abuse. Her grandparents, Beth and Ronnie Finley, recently adopted both daughters, just as many of their neighbors have  the result of a generation of jobless lost kids  in McDowell County, West Virginia who had children when they shouldn t have, according to Beth Finley.
  • Several Jamaican boys perch on the railing of an old primary school used to house missionaries during the summer months in Catadupa, Jamaica. Hundreds of missionaries arrive in the mountainous region every year to help build houses, toilets, churches, and relationships with the local people.
  • Seashells of Portland, Maine.
  • Courtney Workheiser of Claxton, GA spins a young Jamaican girl in circles before Sunday's service as a youth of the Catadupa Christian Community Fellowship Church looks on in Catadupa, Jamaica.
  • A young Jamaican girl takes a break from coloring a picture while sitting in the lap of Arkansas high school student Emelie Colleen on July 15, 2008 in Cambridge, Jamaica. The girl, along with more than twenty other children, walks from home to Christian Fellowship Church every day in the summer to color, sing songs, and learn games from international missionaries visiting for the week.
  • A young Sudanese boy lets his legs dangle from a swing in Kennedy Park in Portland, Maine on June 25, 2008. The Root Cellar, a local ministry and support center, brings refugee children to the park every weekday during the summer after a children s ministry program with Experience Mission, Inc.