Park rangers patrol a wildlife habitat in southern Sudan. Supported by USAID, the Wildlife Conservation Society works to protect the area’s natural resources while creating local jobs and seeking alternatives to unsustainable hunting practices. Photo credit: A. Schenk/WCS
Josette Colin discusses how her earthquake-damaged home was made habitable again by USAID/OFDA-funded Pan American Development Foundation teams in the Simmond-Pele neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Dec. 16, 2010. Photo Credit: Kendra Helmer/USAID
U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Michael W. Michalak congratulates Ms. Tran Thi Hue, winner of Charming Plus 2010- the first pageant for HIV positive women in Vietnam. Tran Thi Hue, a 27-year-old HIV outreach worker from Ha Nam province, was crowned on November 14. Photo Credit: Richard Nyberg/USAID
A Hazara Afghan boy sits in the sunshine in Bamiyan. Bamiyan, some 124 miles northwest of Kabul, stands in a deep green and lush valley stretching 100 kilometers through central Afghanistan, on the former Silk Road which once linked China with Central Asia and beyond. The town was home to nearly 2,000-year-old Buddha statues before they were destroyed by the Taliban, months before their regime was toppled in a US-led invasion in late 2001. Credit: AFP Photo/Shah Marai
A farmer shows an example of a pepper grown at a farm that is part of a USAID WINNER project in Kenscoff, outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Watershed Initiative for National Natural Environmental Resources program or WINNER for short, is a five-year, $126 million program funded by USAID to increase productivity in the country’s ailing agricultural sector. Photo Credit: Kendra Helmer/USAID
