India A boy watches the merriment of girls at the Amar Jyoti Rehabilitation and Research Centre in New Delhi. The centre provides services for 540 disabled children.

DR Congo A disabled woman is at the Kisangani Rehabilitation Centre, established in 1985 to provide medical services and training workshops for people disabled by polio and other diseases.

Pakistan During the country's November NIDs, mothers wait their turn for their babies to be vaccinated in a village in the southern Thar Desert region.

Sudan People at the Keny cattle camp in Rumbek county walk towards an arriving team of polio vaccinators. With only one case of polio in 2001, the country will soon be polio-free.