A sixteen-year-old girl who preferred not to be named holds her three-month-old baby boy in her family's chaupadi shelter, a squat crawlspace under the home where the women of the household sleep during their periods, Achham, Nepal, December 9, 2012. She became pregnant when she was raped by a neighbor and family acquaintance while sleeping alone in the shelter. She is trying to track down the rapist, who fled the country, in order to give him the baby, who she cannot afford to care for.
(photo by Allison Shelley)