six year old pandu fayer, who is blind and was living in an indian orphanage, and his adoptive colorado father, jason, who is also blind, prepare for a cyst to be removed from the boy’s eye socket so he may be fitted with prosthetic eyes. april 2009. photo matt mcclain
children being children at a refugee camp at swabi, in northwest pakistan, for 160,000 displaced from fighting in the swat valley. may 2009. photos daniel berehulak (1, 2), mohammad sajjad (3), paula bronstein (4,5), greg baker (6), emilio morenatti (7,9), pedro ugarte (8)
on april 21, 2013, 74 schoolgirls (including the two seen in the photo by farshad usyan) fell sick after smelling gas at their school in taluqan, the capital city of takhar province, afghansitan. on may 1, 2013, over 150 schoolgirls in kabul fell sick after smelling gas and drinking the school’s water. both attacks are thought to be the result of poisoning by the taliban, and are on the rise in recent months. there were over 160 such attacks last year.
the electric daisy carnival at the las vegas motor speedway. june 8, 2012. photo john locher
