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Picture of the Year award in 2007 from the News Photographers Association of Canada

Justin Ngendahimana, 13, lives in the small southern town of Butare at the OPDE (Oeuvre humanitaire pour la Protection et le Développement de l'Enfant en difficulté) Centre, an organization that protects vulnerable children, keeps them off the…

Light from a window illuminates a small group of preschool pupils and their teacher, Madhu Ben Balu Sing Chohan, in a rural Gujarat classroom in western India. Madhu, who only had six years of schooling herself, reaches out to gently guide a small…

A market district in Port-au-Prince smoulders after it was set ablaze in the weeks following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Arsonists retaliating against storeowners who had fought back against looters caused this hellish scene. The two women…

At the Blace border crossing, Kosovars are admitted into the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the first days of the NATO air campaign against the former Yugoslavia in March 1999. These few refugees would swell into the tens of thousands as…

Refugees are all too common in the modern world. Rarely, however, do we see how they live. This Kosovar Albanian family, one of thousands who fled their homes in the conflict of the late 1990s, shared this small temporary shelter with three,…

This young girl should be in school, but she is not. Instead, she spends part of her day scavenging in the ruins of Kabul for any objects that might bring in a little money for her struggling family. She stands there, wearing a discarded evening…

The light in this beautiful photo illuminates the universal bond between mother and child. Set in a UNICEF-funded mother-child health centre in Phnom Penh, the image captures a serious moment. However, we have the feeling that the baby, having…

A Touareg villager inspects the vegetables growing in his garden. The vegetables are flourishing due to an animal-powered well pump. Funded by Canada, this system helped local farmers pump more water into their irrigation systems faster and more…

This photograph of schoolgirls in Kabul is one of many hundreds of early images of Afghanistan that photographer Pedram Pirnia contributed to our photo library. Canada is helping the Government of Afghanistan build, expand, or repair 50 schools in…