SARAH GRILE

A woman puts on makeup while getting ready for her friend's wedding in Monrovia, Liberia. 

Patrick Poopei, 7, walks with his father, William, through the Red Light District in Liberia. When William's uncle became ill in 2014 and traveled to Monrovia for care, his wife took care of him. She also became ill. William took his wife to several clinics to help find a cure her but she later died in his arms.  Soon after, William and his son, Patrick, both started showing similar symptoms. William's nephew convinced them to go to the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) where they both tested positive and were treated. They both survived. 

Delegates and community members join President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for a day of celebration and thanksgiving at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion on Monday. During the service, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave the official Declaration to President Sirleaf that Liberia is free of the Ebola virus. During the celebration, those who were unable to fit in the jam packed pavilion, celebrated outside. 

A man walks down a hallway inside the old Hotel Africa building. In 1979, President William Tolbert, Jr. led the Organization of African Unity conference in the hotel. It fell into disrepair during the country's 14-year civil war. 

City of Stuart Fire Rescue's Troy Bowser, a Lieutenant, from left, and Paul Moyer, a Firefighter, look for hot spots while helping contain the remnants of fire on Thursday that encompassed ninety acres from Stuart to Rio on Wednesday. A cigarette is suspected to have started the fire on Wednesday.

Isata Mansaray, Ebola survivor and orphan, with her grandmother Fatmata Mansaray, Sierra Leone“When I was released from the treatment centre I was told that my parents had gone to America, but later my uncle admitted to me that they had died. When they were alive, they were able to give me everything I needed — I was able to get my hair done. But I don’t feel too sad now because my grandmother is looking after me. A social worker comes and plays with me and asks how I’m doing. I want to be a bank manager so I can take care of my family, especially my grandma.”

Albernita, a student at the More Than Me Academy in Monrovia, stands inside a school near where she lives in West Point.

Abbey McArthur, a teacher at Three Angels Children's Orphanage in Petionville, Haiti hugs Reece Yunker, 8, a recently adopted orphan, after he comes out of customs at the St. Lucie County International Airport on Monday night. All 26 orphans from Three Angels Children's Orphanage in Petionville, Haiti were brought to the airport on Monday in a Hendrick Motorsports jet loaned to Missionary Flights International . Final arrangements were made on Monday early afternoon in Haiti, leaving adoptive parents scrambling to find ways to meet their children. Some  parents, who had been in the process of adopting children from the orphanage for over two years,  traveled from states like Michigan and Indiana to meet their children.  The orphanage is one of the fist that was allowed to bring children into the United States according to its website.

A boy receives a hair cut near his home in Brewersville, Liberia. 

Mary Howard used to live with her husband and children in Liberia before Ebola. She helped support her family by selling old clothes. In 2014, her husband and two of her children contracted Ebola. She went to visit him once at the Ebola Treatment Unit before coming down with the virus. She survived but her husband and two children did not make it. 

Sloane Moss, 11, right, whispers a secret to Diana Stoneking, 12, about the boy Stoneking likes while the two hang out at the Vero Beach Boys and Girls Club on Tuesday. Moss says that her and Stoneking, who both part of the Junior Staff of the club, are the "extra eyes and ears."  Besides helping  watch over the club, the two help others with homework and other activities along with completing 20 hours of community service each month. 

School teams race during a county wide track and field day in central Florida.

A girl walks through the waterside market in Liberia to sell goods. According to the WHO, approximately 64 percent of Liberians live below the poverty line ($1.25/day). This poverty often leads parents to force their children to sell on the streets for extra income.

While cooking at her home in West Point, Patience had an epileptic seizure which caused her to fall into the fire stove resulting in severe burns over the top part of her body.  She was flown to the United States where the scars on her face, neck, chest, and shoulders were treated with laser treatments to help reduce inflammation. Here, Patience poses for a photo at her home after returning to Liberia. 

A boy prays on the first day of school following the Ebola epidemic in Monrovia, Liberia. 

Martu Weefor, Mercy's foster mother, helps her change out of her school uniform after arriving home from school.