Amateur shortlist 2011

Foday sits under the corrugated tin roof of 'Mama's' Restaurant. The light fades as the afternoon clouds darken; rain approaches in the distance.
'You don't want to be riding in this weather,' Foday says as the first drops of rain fall in the dust. 'You get sick, even though we're used to the jungle training.'

Rose lives on a remote island in Makira province, part of the archipelagic South Pacific island nation Solomon Islands. She is the fourth of five children, and her parents estimate that she is aged 11. Rose had an accident when she was a baby that left her sight severely impaired, and lack of access to health care means her sight worsened over the years. She is now completely blind. There is one primary school on the island, but there are no resources for blind pupils, and Rose has never attended school

"We are 21 patients of tuberculosis. 8 have died and the rest are waiting in line," cries a villager to Shanti. Shanti, a reporter from Khabar Lahariya, has walked for over eight kilometres in the heat through mud and thicket to reach Sukhrampur, a blighted North Indian village of 600 with no doctors, transport facilities, or even a post office

Saidi Mwema, Inspector General of the Tanzanian Police Force, enters a medical tent and takes a seat. The nurse sat in front of him pulls out a needle and draws blood. Saidi is undertaking an HIV test in one of Africa's worst affected regions- by doing so he encourages another 118 of his rank, followed by some 9500 police offers and their families to undergo a test