A boy swims in Chao Phraya River as he helps to place a Krathong, or a “floating basket”, in the water amid a yearly festival during which rafts of neatly folded banana leaves, decorated with flowers, candles and incense, are offered to thank the water goddess for good luck and for using her water to grow crops and support all life, in Bangkok, Thailand on November 8, 2022. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)

South Korean band AESPA perform at ABC Good Morning America summer concert series in Central Park in New York City, U.S., July 8, 2022. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

Preparation of a Cuban cake (a Mexican sandwich that is made with bread, generally a telera, bolillo or baguette, which is split in half and filled with different ingredients such as milanesa, sausages, cheese, avocado, onion, tomato, bacon, chili, chorizo, pineapple, among others), during the International Cake Fair on the esplanade of the Venustiano Carranza mayor's office in Mexico City on August 2, 2023. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Vanessa, thirty-five, had three children with an abusive husband. She “lost her mind, started doing heroin”, after losing the children, who were taken away and given to her mother. The drugs led to homelessness and prostitution. She grew up on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, but now spends her time in Hunts Point, “trying to survive everyday. Just doing whatever it takes”.

Bebe Rexha wears satin fuchsia suit while leaving The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in New York City on December 20, 2018. (Photo by Felipe Ramales/Splash News and Pictures)

A man and a woman jump over a bonfire during Ivan Kupala Day celebrations held by the Belarusian State Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Lifestyle in the village of Ozertso near Minsk, Belarus on July 4, 2020. Ivan Kupala Day, also known as Ivana-Kupala or Kupala Night, is a traditional pagan holiday celebrated in eastern Slavic cultures. Various rituals are traditionally performed on Kupala Night, including making flower wreaths, fortune-telling, jumping over bonfires, and burning a wheel-like effigy symbolizing the sun. (Photo by Natalia Fedosenko/TASS)

United States Air Force Academy graduates cheer as the United States Air Force Thunderbirds fly over the graduation for the Class of 2021 at Falcon Stadium on May 26, 2021 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley gave the commencement address to the 1,019 graduates from the academy. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Chile's Mary Dee Vargas (L) reacts after defeating Brazil's Larissa Farias compete in their Judo Women's –48 kg Bronze Medal contest during the Lima 2019 Pan-American Games in Lima on August 8, 2019. (Photo by Guadalupe Pardo/Reuters)