Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Kampala, Uganda

Boda boda motorcycle taxi operators pass under a stuck tractor trailer on the Kampala-Hoima Road in the Wakiso district near Kampala, Uganda’s capital. The truck, which blocked traffic for hours, ended up in a ditch after its driver attempted a turn on the narrow road.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Lusaka, Zambia

Friends in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, convert reusable cooking-oil buckets into self-heating water buckets by adding heating elements. During winter, the group buys the buckets for 20 kwacha ($2.26) each and the heating elements for 70 kwacha ($7.92). They then sell the final product for 120 kwacha ($13.58).

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Rubavu District, Rwanda

Company owner Emmanuel Hategekimana (left) and employee Jean Paul Ndikumana pour finished paint into a bucket at the Hatega Co. Ltd. office in the Rugerero sector of Rwanda’s Rubavu district. Hategekimana, who founded the company, creates his paints using local soil and mixing the ingredients by hand.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Goma, North Kivu, DRC

Chance Bahati, 32, who is hearing and speech impaired, sews shirts, handbags, shoes and other items made from waxed cotton fabric. He lives in the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. For five years, Bahati has collected the waxed cotton fabric, known there as kitenge, from local markets. He sells the shirts, for example, at 21,750 Congolese francs ($13.70) each.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Sololá, Guatemala

For at least three hours every day, Petronila Velasco, 53, weaves huipiles – loose-fitting tunic-like garments worn by indigenous women in Central America and Mexico – at her home in San Juan Cotzal, in western Guatemala. Families have been making and wearing traditional clothing for generations, and this helps preserve the local culture and identity.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Harare, Zimbabwe

Nomatter James (left), 16, and Estery Emmanuel (second from left), 15, braid a client’s hair in the Caledonia settlement in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. James, who does not attend school, was taken in and taught to braid hair by Estery’s mother, after her own mother left for South Africa in November 2016 and did not return.

Photo by Tatenda Kanengoni

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Junior Aimé, 38, a resident of Port–au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, disassembles a broken refrigerator to make charcoal stoves. For 24 years, Aimé has recycled refrigerators into charcoal stoves, which are common cooking devices in Haiti.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Rubavu District, Rwanda

Marie Nyirarukundo sells eggplants, which she bought from local farmers, at the Mbugangari market in Rwanda’s Rubavu District, on the border of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Nyundo, Rubavu, Rwanda

Jeanne d’Arc Uwimana (right) sews toys with Mariana Nyiragasigwa in Nyundo, a community in Rwanda’s western Rubavu district. The two women are members of KOMERA, a cooperative that helps to start businesses like this one, which brings together tailors to make clothes, bags, hats, carpets and toys.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Mariano Julio Santiago Flores, 85, shows a shoe he made in his workshop in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a city in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Santiago Flores says he became a shoemaker at age 15, after training as an apprentice.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

San Pedro Garza García, Mexico

María Isabel González, 54, is a pepenadora who collects and sells garbage to recycling companies. She is searching for cardboard in San Pedro Garza García, a city in Mexico’s northern state of Nuevo León. A pepenador can make 2 Mexican pesos (11 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cardboard.

Photo by Itzel Hervert

Upper Mustang, Nepal

Chimmi Rinzing Gurung, 50, and his horses travel around Lo Manthang village in Upper Mustang, a region in northwestern Nepal. Gurung charges tourists 1,500 Nepalese rupees (about $15) for a round-trip horseback ride to their destination, where he tends to the horses while the tourists go sightseeing.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Mutare, Zimbabwe

In Zimunya township of Mutare District, Zimbabwe, Collin Sithole uses sandpaper to put the finishing touches on a drinking glass that he has made from a wine bottle. Sithole makes the glasses in his backyard from recycled bottles, using a piece of rope, water and sandpaper.

Photo by Evidence Chenjerai

Panajachel, Sololá, Guatemala

Saida Chiquibal (left), 11, braids Sucely Jiatz’s hair on Calle Santander, a street in the town of Panajachel, in Guatemala’s Sololá department. Saida, who charges 10 to 15 Guatemalan quetzals ($1.36 to $2.04), depending on the length of the hair, braids using colorful thread. The street is a popular shopping spot for both locals and tourists.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Nelson Jean Philipe, 65, of Carrefour, a neighborhood in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, crushes stones to be sold to engineers for use in construction. Jean Philipe has been a stone crusher for 16 years and earns enough to support himself and his adopted son.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jimmy Salomon, 27, a craftsman who lives in the Delmas, a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, recycles plastic waste into items like curtains, bracelets and baskets.

Photo by Oxane Sylvestre

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Harare, Zimbabwe, Paul Murombo, 33, makes cooking pots from aluminum scrap that he has removed from an old truck, while his son Elshamer Murombo, 28 months, eats. Murombo can make pots of any size, and most are sold to large institutions like schools or churches.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Kampala, Uganda

Irene Nawaho, a nanny for the Ugandan Parliament’s day care facility, watches over (left to right) Felicia Kusiima, Ezra Weijuliand and Verima Rocho. Parliament set up this facility and breast-feeding center so that its members and staff can work with a settled heart knowing their children are under good care and close to them.

Photo by Edna Namara

Harare, Zimbabwe

Upenyu Maponde, 32, weaves a chair under some shade in Avondale, a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe. Maponde, who has been weaving furniture for 10 years, sells his items on the side of the road. His complete four-seat couch sells for between $300 and $400.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Lusaka, Zambia

Misheck Tembo, 72, repairs bicycles in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. For the last 21 years, Tembo has earned a living by repairing bicycles.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

Roadside barbers sit nearby the famous Dargah Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state in India. Customers are mostly older men who want haircuts and beard trims after praying at the Muslim shrine, which holds a holy relic believed to be hair from the Prophet Muhammad’s beard.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Nairobi, Kenya

Jeremiah Mutunga Mwema, 38, sells his goods at Nairobi’s Maasai Market, held every Tuesday along Kijabe Street. The market brings together African fashion traders. Mwema makes and decorates his own African wear and is the founder of Black Pride, a clothing business.

Photo by Lilian Odhiambo

Mexico City, Mexico

Ilse Gómez (left), 19, and Fernanda Méndez, 20, juggle soccer balls for tips during red lights in Mexico City. The women perform one day a week for about four hours, making about 800 Mexican pesos ($40), which go toward their school expenses.

Photo by Mar García

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Carlos Pérez Méndez (left), 9, and Eliseo López Méndez, 10, are shoe shiners in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a major city in Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state. The two boys, who are not related, charge 7 pesos (about 34 cents) per pair, and 10 pesos (about 49 cents) when a customer requests a special hue or tint. They estimate they shine as many as 15 pairs a day. The daily earnings contribute to their families’ household income. According to 2014 figures from local nonprofit Melel Xojobal, nearly 3,000 children in this city work on the streets.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

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