Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Kampala, Uganda

Ali Kasimu, a representative for the groom’s family, offers gifts to girls dressed in gomesi dresses at a traditional marriage, known as Kwanjula, in Kampala, Uganda. During the ceremony, girls often line up to greet the groom and his family.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Zavkhan, Uvs province, Mongolia

Nyam-Ochir Khongorzul, 15, stands among goats in Zavkhan, Uvs province, Mongolia. Nyam-Ochir, who helps his parents tend the livestock during school vacations, says herding comes with many responsibilities.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnokhoi

Zavkhan, Uvs province, Mongolia

Azbileg Khongorzul, 14, collects camel dung from a livestock yard in Zavkhan, Uvs province, Mongolia. Azbileg helps her parents prepare fuel from camel droppings while her school is closed due to coronavirus restrictions.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnokhoi

Bayandalai, Umnugovi province, Mongolia

Altanchimeg Dorjnyam softens and tans a sheepskin with a wooden stick called a “khedreg” in Bayandalai, Umnugovi province, Mongolia. As winter sets in, Altanchimeg will use the prepared skin as part of a “deel,” a traditional Mongolian garment, that she will sew for her son.

Photo by Nansalmaa Oyunchimeg

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Mónica Martínez, who moved from Mexico when she was 12, and her 1-year-old daughter, Emma Escobedo-Martínez, do educational activities in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Photo by Ena Aguilar Peláez

Carrefour, Haiti

Monique Laguerre covers her youngest son’s schoolbooks in Carrefour, Haiti. Laguerre covers the books at the beginning of each school year to prevent them from being damaged and to avoid the additional expense of purchasing new ones during the semester.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Erdenebulgan soum, Khuvsgul province, Mongolia

Delgermurun Uvgunkhuu, 9, helps his family rake and stack hay in Erdenebulgan soum, Khuvsgul province, Mongolia. In mid-August, herders in Mongolia prepare hay to feed their livestock during winter and spring.

Photo by Dolgormaa Sandagdorj

Constitución Cintalapa, Mexico

Marcos Esteban Morales Santiago, 6, sifts bags of sand between playing games to help his father renovate their kitchen stove in Constitución, a town in Cintalapa, Mexico.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

Mexico City, Mexico

Santiago, 6, and Carolina, 10, siblings who requested anonymity out of concern for their safety, and Alexa Maya, 7, center, learn how to hula-hoop from Emily Espíndola, right, during a tianguis, a food market in the traditional agricultural area known as the chinampa zone in Xochimilco, Mexico City.

Photo by Mar García

Erdenet, Orkhon province, Mongolia

From left, Munkh-Erdene Dalantai, Molor-Erdene Munkh-Erdene, Enkhzaya Bayanjargal and Enkhtsatsral Munkh-Erdene play shagai, a traditional Mongolian anklebone game, in Erdenet, a city in Mongolia’s Orkhon province. The object of the game is to make an alag melkhii, or multicolored turtle. The family plays shagai every night to temporarily distance the children from television and mobile phone screens.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnokhoi

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Vairavan Santhalingam (left) and his wife Santhalingam Leela watch their grandchildren in the courtyard of their house in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. They moved here to build a new life after being displaced by Sri Lanka’s civil war, which ended in 2009. More than eight people live together in the small property.

Photo by Poongulaly Balagobalan

Kathmandu, Nepal

Parmeshwori Devi Mukhiya and her husband, Faltu Mukhiya, who are both blind, stand in front of their home in a settlement on the banks of the Bagmati Riverin Kathmandu, Nepal. They moved to Kathmandufrom Bandipur, about four hours away, looking for better employment opportunities.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Kayna, DRC

Gloire, 8, holds a goat’s leash with Sifa, 10, (left) and Oscar, 4, (right) while they take the animals out to graze in Nyamiindo, a neighborhood of Kayna, Democratic Republic of Congo. Their legal guardian, Isabelle Kahambu Ngotsi (not pictured) taught them how to take the goats to graze. Kahambu Ngotsi, with help from Solidaritat Castelldefels Kasando, a group for children without parents, currently cares for 17 orphaned children.

Photo by Merveille Kavira Luneghe

Lusaka, Zambia

Theresa Kazunga and her son Enock wash a carpet at Ngwenya Dam in the Misisi township in Lusaka, Zambia. “We don’t need to pay for water to wash our clothes [here],” says Kazunga. She says that getting water elsewhere usually costs one Zambian kwacha (8 cents) for three 20-liter (16-gallon) buckets – “Imagine how much it could cost if you are doing laundry.”

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico

Lucía Vázquez Luna, holding a cross with the names of murdered family members, participates in a protest demanding justice for the Matanza de Acteal, a massacre which took place in the Acteal village of Mexico’s Chiapas state in 1997. The massacre took the lives of 45 Tsotsil people, including nine of Vázquez Luna’s relatives.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

In Bizoton, a suburb of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, Paulette Aurélien teaches her daughter, Mireille Mirtyl, how to knit. Aurélien has been custom-knitting clothes for her clientele for 13 years. Mireille dreams of becoming a seamstress one day.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Birendranagar, Nepal

Isha Thapa, 2, dances to a Nepalese song during a family picnic in Birendranagar, Nepal. To help introduce her to their culture, Isha’s parents dressed her in the traditional garb of the Magar, the group to which the family belongs.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Kampala, Uganda

Older children from Kisenyi, an area of Kampala, Uganda, care for and carry younger siblings. The older children help to mind younger siblings while their parents work and manage households.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Kabuyanda, Uganda

Ananias Kobuyambi (center) and members of his family cut a cake to celebrate his 90th birthday on Dec. 26 at his home in Rutooma village, Kabuyanda, a subcounty of Uganda’s Isingiro district. In Uganda, the average life expectancy is 62.

Photo by Apophia Agiresaasi

Bawits Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico

In Bawits, Tenejapa, a community in Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state, Lucia Luna Entzin, 5, helps her family weave a mesh screen that will be reinforced with metal bars and lined with cement to become the base of their ferro-cement rainwater tank. Many homes in indigenous communities of the Chiapas Highlands do not have running water, so families have been coming together to build rainwater tanks and avoid walking, sometimes for hours, to access clean water.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Close family and friends of Thérèse Matandu gathered under a purple canopy in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sept. 26 for the funeral of the 70-year-old woman, who had passed away in a hospital six days earlier. Various people from throughout the community also attended to pay their last respects. It is common in Congolese culture for entire communities to attend funerals.

Photo by Francine Ishay Mulumba

Lake Kivu, DRC

Solange Mutumwinka is helped out of a boat at a public beach on Lake Kivu, after her marriage to Justin Munyentwari (top) in the Gisenyi Sector of Rwanda’s Rubavu District. Couples who wed in Gisenyi can take a boat ride after the ceremony to have their photos taken on Lake Kivu.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Bardiya District, Nepal

Laxmi Chaudhary, 20, holds her 1-year-old child while her 3-year-old child watches as she collects water in Bardiya District, Nepal. In Bardiya’s indigenous Tharu community, in the Terai plains, some family members cook food and bring it to others who work in the fields.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Quiché, Guatemala

Juana Guzaro helps her daughter Ana Guzaro, 7, arrange her belt, as Ana delicately combs her hair before they run errands in Viucalvitz Nebaj village in Quiché, a department in northwestern Guatemala. The traditional outfits in this community can take 10 to 15 minutes to put on, so mothers often help their daughters get dressed.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

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Kampala, Uganda

Zavkhan, Uvs province, Mongolia

Zavkhan, Uvs province, Mongolia

Bayandalai, Umnugovi province, Mongolia

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Carrefour, Haiti

Erdenebulgan soum, Khuvsgul province, Mongolia

Constitución Cintalapa, Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico

Erdenet, Orkhon province, Mongolia

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Kathmandu, Nepal

Kayna, DRC

Lusaka, Zambia

Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Birendranagar, Nepal

Kampala, Uganda

Kabuyanda, Uganda

Bawits Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Lake Kivu, DRC

Bardiya District, Nepal

Quiché, Guatemala