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A group of children crowd around the camera's viewfinder, interrupting their chores. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.

Wet laundry on the line. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.

Children handing out in the yard. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.

Child living with her grandparents, while her mother remains living in Lesotho. Her grandfather works at a golf course and her grandmother sells homemade African beer. Selling homemade beer is illegal, yet, because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to produce, many people find it to be a lucrative business, especially in the face of 40-45% unemployment rates among Grassland's population. Throughout the day neighbors come to drink at their house. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.

Fifty-gallon steel drum doghouse. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.

Shadrack's grandchildren pick the remaining pieces of meat from the bone after he has finished eating from it. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.

At a community day celebration children are served soup and pap, a corn porridge, donated by the owner of a corner store. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.

Repairing the roof. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.

Monaheng in the doorway of his home. Monaheng and his wife, Mpewane, moved into an abandoned farmhouse a year before the land it stood on was bought and died into the 2,883 individual half-hectare sites that now make up Grassland Phase II. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.

During funeral preparations for her grandfather, four sheep are sacrificed the night of the vigil. Grassland Phase II, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2004.