Two women in the oil rich Bayelsa State mine small rocks out moulding sand to make ends mate.

A woman's leg in the a moulding field working to earn a living and feed her wards owing to her husband jobless in the oil rich Bayelsa, Nigeria.

Taggo, an iron fabricator, wears a Royal Dutch Shell T-shirt along the streets of Yenagoa in the oil rich state of Bayelsa.

Kitchen used by the occupants of the uncompleted building in Yenagoa of oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria

Bathroom used by occupants of uncompleted building in Yenagoa of oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria

Esther and her friend Ebiere at the uncompleted building in Yenagoa of oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

An uncompleted building in the central city of oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria occupied by homeless and jobless people.

A toddler stands before a make-shift walkway into the uncompleted building occupied by homeless and jobless people in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

23 year-old, Esther, a school dropout sits on a window at an uncompleted building occupied by homeless and jobless people in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

36 year Okeychuwku sits on a bed at the uncompleted building in Yenagoa, capital of the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria

35 year old Maria Johnson with her son sit by the door at an uncompleted building where they are living since they could not afford paying one.

10 year old Emmanuel searches for small rocks by the roadside of Yenagoa, capital of oil rich, Bayelsa state, Nigeria to support his family.

10 year old Emmanuel drags his two sacks in search for small rocks by the road side of Yenagoa, capital of oil rich, Bayelsa state, Nigeria to supports his family.

10 year old Emmanuel stands before small rocks by the road side of Yenagoa, capital of oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria, collected to support his family.

5 year old Fortune, Freeborn's daughter, sits in the front of their home surrounded by spilled crude from Royal Dutch Shell Facility in Ikarama community in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

Taggo, an iron fabricator wears a Royal Dutch Shell T-shirt along the streets of Yenagoa in the oil rich state of Bayelsa.

Farmland covered with spilled crude from Royal Dutch Shell Facility at Ikarama community of oil rich Bayelsa state,Nigeria .

Freeborn's family stands in front of their home near Royal Dutch Shell Facility in Ikarama community in the oil rich Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

An environmentalist, Alagoa Morris with Environmental Rights Action (ERA) viewing the spread of spilled crude from the Royal Dutch Shell facility at Ikarama community in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

Alagoa Morris, an environmental activist with a shirt saying "Climate Justice now," takes a snap shot at the spill site at Ikarama community near Royal Dutch Shell Facility in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

Alagoa Morris, an environmentalist, walks through the bush around the recent Royal Dutch Shell spill site at Ikarama of oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

5 year old Fortune plays with spilled crude oil near their home in Ikarama community, near Royal Dutch Shell Facility in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

Freeborn Roland excavates spoiled cassava crop as a result of spilled crude from Royal Dutch Shell facility near his home in Ikrama community in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

Freeborn wife and four children, including four month-old twins pose to camera in their near Royal Dutch Shell recent spill in Ikarama community of oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

Jeremaih Tukor, a naitive of Ikarama community empties sample of spilled crude from Eni/Agip Facility on the ground into container in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

A boy with firewood crosses the Eni/Agip pipeline in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

Well head of crude facility belonging to Eni/Agip in the oil rich Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Jeremaih Tukor, a native of Ikarama community collects sample of spilled crude from Eni/Agip Facility on the ground in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

A woman with her four kids returning home to her farm in a wooden canoe in the waterway of oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

A family in a wooden canoe along the Nun river in the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria

A teenage girl in a fishing expedition is covered with crude oil in the waterways of the oil rich Bayelsa state, Nigeria.