“Kids of Sapa”. Four little beautiful Hmong girls from Lao Chai Village, near Sapa, Vietnam. (Photo and caption by Felipe Hanower/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

Girls watch a procession during the “Fiesta de las Palancas” celebration to ask for blessings and abundance during the new year in Panchimalco, El Salvador, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Jose Cabezas/Reuters)

A girl with white powder on her face celebrates the Songkran holiday which marks the Thai New Year in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 14, 2024. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)

A girl plays a jump rope game at a school housing residents displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

A little girl rubs her tired eyes during the first day at the lyceum named after Moldovan writer Gheorghe Asachi in Chisinau on September 2, 2024. (Photo by Dumitru Doru/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

A girl reacts as she receives polio vaccine drops during a house-to-house vaccination campaign in Yemen's capital Sanaa, November 10, 2015. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

An internally displaced girl stands on an abandoned railway tracks beside a makeshift refugee camp in Sinjar town, in Idlib province, Syria November 20, 2015. (Photo by Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)

An Afghan refugee girl shows her younger brother a calf in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, February 6, 2015. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo)