Cutting rock in the hot sun with a jacket, shredded pants, and barefeet.

In afternoon heat, a worker wields his pick with a wool hat, long sleeves, and a vest.

Carving out bricks from rock, barefoot.

A quarry worker's sandals and tools.

A stone cutter n the Likoni quarry heaves his newly carved bricks to a ledge.

A Likoni stone cutter on break.

White dust is everywhere caking a brick-cutters skin.

A quarry worker's calloused hand

Quarry workers in late afternoon and their day's production of bricks. Their long labor in the hot sun may result in creating 300 bricks a day and earning each worker $4.

An afternoon truck collect the bricks. Although the stone cutters welcomed a foreign photographer, the truck crew refused to be photographed.

A Likoni mother prepares a lunch porridge to sell in town to workers .

A sardine stall at the Likoni ferry dock.

A lettuce stall at the Likoni ferry dock.

On a Likoni street, a water seller hauls a heavy trailer filled with water canisters. He serves residential and commercial customers.

Outside Likoni, a worker prepares coconuts at a plant that exports coconut oil to U.S. health food stores.

Down the coast, a small businesswoman holds her passbook from Yehu Microfinance at a weekly meeting to deposit money.