A woman in Nairobi attends a concert in honor of the victims of the terrorist attack that took 147 lives at Garissa University College in April. Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Kennedy Odede has gone from street boy to social activist. He says: "When you do kindness that you don't expect to come back to you, you are spreading the light in the world." Courtesy of Shining Hope For Communities hide caption

Goats and Soda Editor Marc Silver tried to interview the rescued hen, but she wouldn't make a peep. Akash Ghai/NPR hide caption

A nutritionist fetches a carton of Plumpy'Nut for malnourished patients at a hospital in Burkina Faso. Michael Zumstein/Agence VU hide caption

Fatmeh (left) fled Syria with her family and now lives in Lebanon, where she works in the fields instead of attending school. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption

After his mother-in-law's death, NPR's Marc Silver found her go-to cookbook, filled with her copious annotations to recipes. He used it to piece together her take on mandelbread, a Jewish version of biscotti, and other holiday favorites. Akash Ghai/NPR hide caption

Dahlia Yehia was reportedly beaten to death by the man she was staying with in the Nepalese city of Pokhara. PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Ann Cotton, pictured with students in Tanzania, makes sure girls have the funds for everything from books to shoes, so they won't "feel like a poor relation" in school. Courtesy of Camfed hide caption

In the video for "Wildest Dreams," Taylor Swift and Scott Eastwood act out the story of a love affair set in Africa (although her scenes were filmed in California). YouTube hide caption

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Second Place: Three gravel workmen look through a window at their workplace in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Dust and sand are everywhere. Faisal Azim/Courtesy of National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest hide caption

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, who just turned 75, thinks of credit as a human right. Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption