Ripple Effect Images

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1. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: KenyaCaption:A villager fetches water from a polluted hole in the village of Dambas.
2. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: KenyaAid Organization: TIST Caption: Portrait of a girl posing with tree seedlings to plant along the perimeterof her school.
3. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaAid Organization: Jal Bhagirathi Caption: A woman savors a rare drink of water in the Malwar region of Rajasthan, the most populated desert on the planet.
4. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaCaption:Portrait of girls and the power of friendship.
5. Credit: Annie Griffiths/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: PeruOrganization: CARE PeruCaption: Lourdes Pilco learned basic veterinary skills to keep her livestock far healthier, despite vast temperature variables brought on by climate change in the region.
6. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaAid Organization: Jal Bhagirathi  Caption: Before collecting water, women in India visit the local temple to give thanks to the gods for supplying this precious resource.
7. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaAid Organization: PardadaPardadi Caption: For each day these girls attend classes, the school will deposit ten rupees, the equivalent of 20 cents, into an account for their future.
8. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaAid Organization: Chintan Caption: Children who typically spend their days sifting through trash to support their families may never know the gift of an education.
9. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: BangladeshOrganization: Caption: A young girl completely inundated with flood water in a country where 10 million people survive in areas less than one meter above current sea levels.
10. Credit: Annie Griffiths/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaOrganization: SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association) Caption: A women dances outside of her modest home.
11. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: KenyaAid Organization: Church World ServiceCaption: The Water for Life program helps communities builds dams that become center of sustainable communities.
12. Credit: Annie Griffiths/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaAid Organization: Barefoot College Caption: In Rajasthan, a woman without formal education now runs her own solar desalinization plant, bringing fresh water to her village.
13. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaCaption: Women make the journey back to their village after collecting water.
14. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: BangladeshAid Organization: Friendship Bangladesh Caption: A boat navigates through the Brahmaputra River in the northwestern chars of a country with a population of more than 140 million.
15. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: Jordan Caption: Portrait of ManwaUlayan, who provides for and protects the wealth of her family by milking sheep and harvesting wheat for a local farmer.
16. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: India Aid Organization:SEWA Caption: Young salt workers have tremendous health concerns due to their exposure to heavy labor in hot conditions.
17. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: India Caption: Portrait of women and girls collecting what they have farmed.
18. Credit: Annie Griffiths/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaOrganization: SEWACaption: A group of women in India proudly display solar lanterns that will become a source of opportunity for their families and communities.
19. Credit: Annie Griffiths/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: CambodiaAid Organization: Church World Service Caption: Despitesflooding that destroyed the nearby rice fields, two elderly women share a moment of humor and friendship.
20. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: India Caption: A woman using an inefficient and dangerous open cook stove inside of her home.
21. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: BangladeshAid Organization: Friendship Bangladesh Caption: Flood waters past the doorstep of women living on the massive estuary delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers.
22. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: KenyaAid Organization: TISTCaption: A group of women subsistence farmers plant trees to reverse the devastating effects of deforestation, drought, and famine.
23. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: BangladeshAid Organization: Friendship Bangladesh Caption: A young girl studies from her workbook at school in a small country where 28,000 people live per square kilometer.
24. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: KenyaAid Organization: Church World ServiceCaption: The fate of being a boy or a girl in this village is the difference between girls becoming life-long beasts of burden or builders of dams and dreams.
25. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: BangladeshAid Organization: Friendship Bangladesh Caption: A woman peers out of the window of an ambulance.
26. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: KenyaAid Organization: Church World ServiceCaption: These mothers are changing the destiny of their family by building a sand dam, allowing their daughters to focus on schoolwork.
27. Credit: Annie Griffiths/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: PeruAid Organization: Care PeruCaption: Colorful scene from a High Andes market.
28. Credit: Renee Harbers/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: RwandaAid Organization: Rwanda Girls InitiativeCaption: The power of love between a mother and daughter has universal resonance.
29. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: KenyaAid Organization: Church World ServiceCaption: Mary Okeyovisits neglected village women to dispensefood, pain medicine and intimate care for women who have been largely forgotten.
30. Credit: Annie Griffiths/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: PeruAid Organization: Care PeruCaption: With knowledge about better feed sources and immunizations, Lourdes Pilco tends to livestock.
31. Credit: Annie Griffiths/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: PeruAid Organization: Heifer InternationalCaption: Sofia Pilco, seated, comforts a friend from her community.
32. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: KenyaAid Organization: TISTCaption: In the village of Mintuntu, a woman’s careful hands tend to a seedling that will grow into one of 5 million new trees planted by TIST.
33. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: TanzaniaCaption:Women gather water at sunset in the village of Usuru.
34. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: KenyaAid Organization: TISTCaption: Judith AyooOlier bakes in the sun with a smile as she clears mud from a local drainage ditch.
35. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: MalawiCaption: A close view reveals some of the devastating effects of climate change.
36. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaAid Organization: PardadaPardadiCaption: Siblings studying at home.
37. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaAid Organization: PardadaPardadiCaption: A student works to prepare a meal for her fellow classmates at school.
38. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaCaption:Anita Deviprepares tea at the world's largest annual cattle fair in the desert town of Pushkar, Rajasthan.
39. Credit: Ami Vitale/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: Burkina FasoAid Organization: NEED FROM AMICaption:Children carry water in Zigberi, a remote part of the desert region near the Malian border.
40. Credit: Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect ImagesCountry: IndiaAid Organization: PardadaPardadiCaption: Portrait of a girl balancing a jug of water.