Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Kampala, Uganda

At the Uganda Museum in the capital of Kampala, participants in the Kampala Color Fun Run 2019 receive colored powder to wear and throw at one another. The 5-kilometer run-walk is a family event. Different colors were thrown on the participants after each kilometer.

Photo by Beatrice Lamwaka

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Sivam Mercy, 14, sets nets to catch shrimp at Pannai Beach in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Helping his father, Sivam sets the nets in the evening and hauls in the shrimp in the morning.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

New Delhi, India

Laborers separate pieces of fabric by color at a textile manufacturing factory in the Okhla Industrial Area in New Delhi, India’s capital. The cloth pieces are purchased as stuffing for mattresses and pillows.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Nansana, Wakiso District, Uganda

Fred Sango pushes his brother Douglas Mukajanga as he waits his turn to swing in Kabumbi, a neighborhood in the municipality of Nansana in Uganda’s Wakiso District. The children in the community made this swing.

Photo by Edna Namara

Harare, Zimbabwe

The Miss Culture Worldwide pageant features an introductory walk, in which contestants present their countries’ flags. The event was held at the Venue, a restaurant in Avondale, the central business district of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. The pageant, organized by Destination Marketing International, was created to promote Zimbabwean tourism, culture and history.

Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Kathmandu, Nepal

Sandip Ranjitkar (right), whose family has been selling wool shawls for three generations, gets his wares ready for prospective customers in Indra Chowk, a large market square in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Kampala, Uganda

Travelers depart from the Port Bell Landing Site on Lake Victoria in Kampala, Uganda. Boaters and fishermen say that the lake is often overgrown with water hyacinth, a weed that hinders travel and hurts their businesses.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Tangmarg, Indian-administered Kashmir

Yasir Hussain (left), 11, and Sajad Qasana, 10, take advantage of the snow in Tangmarg, Indian-administered Kashmir. Indian-administered Kashmir has seen heavy snowfall this season, with up to two feet in hilly regions so far.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sergio Paternò plays the electric guitar like a piano on Calle Florida, a pedestrian street in the center of Buenos Aires, Argentina. “I began one day, and I loved it,” he says. “It becomes a unique instrument. It is a different way of playing. We should all find different ways of doing things, otherwise we end up all the same – running to the same side.” He’s referring to people who walk quickly on the path.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Kathmandu, Nepal

A dragon is painted on Mahesh Magar, 3, during a Makar Sakranti festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. Makar Sakranti marks the beginning of the Nepali month Magh, which signals the return of longer and warmer days. Mahesh says he always gets a dragon painted on his face during cultural festivals.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Sololá, Guatemala

Francisco Tun (right) shows his respect for Samuel Saloj Tuiz, a local mayor, during a ceremony in Sololá, Guatemala. At this event, as part of a 500-year-old custom, 73 outgoing mayors passed the “vara” (rod) to 73 new mayors.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Kathmandu, Nepal

Siddhartha Gautam, 8, enjoys a ride called 3 in 1 at the Kathmandu Fun Parkin Bhrikutimandap, Kathmandu, Nepal. Siddhartha says he likes to ride 3 in 1 at least two times whenever he visits the amusement park, because it makes him feel as if he’s flying in a real airplane.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Vavuniya, Sri Lanka

Rajeenthiran Jonsan, 6; Pratheepkumar Thushipriyanthanan, 6; Aswini Anton, 6; and Arsatha Aroos, 5, display their crafts to an audience of parents during an exhibition at Ath Thayba Pre-school in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. Students were taught artistic and creative ways to recycle waste materials.

Photo by Thayalini Indrakularasa

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mariano Cipolat, 37, works on a leather belt at the historic center of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cipolat has been making leather artisan goods for 10 years, and he explains why he learned the trade. “I was traveling through [South] America,” he says. “We got to Ecuador, and if I wanted to keep traveling, I needed to start working in something. As I never liked working in business, I started with crafts and didn’t stop.”

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

New Delhi, India

Kalabai Shyam, 45, an artist from the Gond, the largest Adivasi (tribal) community in India, paints during an exhibition at Dilli Haat, a plaza and craft bazaar in New Delhi. Her media are charcoal, colored soil, plant sap, mud, flowers, leaves and cow dung. She says she is inspired by Mother Nature to tell stories through her paintings.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Buenos Aires, Argentina

From left, sisters Cielito, 10, María Isabel, 24, and Génesis Neira, 15, jump rope at the Parque Chacabuco in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ‘’We like to jump the rope and to play volleyball,” María Isabel says. “Usually, we come on Sundays, but now we are taking advantage of the fact that the girls are on vacation, and so we come during the week too.”

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Nshenyi, Isingiro District, Uganda

Methodias Atukwase (left) and Clephas Muhereza thresh their bean harvest in Nshenyi, a village in Uganda’s Isingiro District. They beat the crop to loosen the beans from the husks. It takes them three days to thresh one sack of beans.

Photo by Apophia Agiresaasi

Birendranagar, Nepal

Rita Thapa (left), 9, and Puja Khadka, 10, wash up at the Shree Nepal Rastriya Higher Secondary School in Birendranagar, Nepal. Many of the government schools provide purified drinking water for students to avoid common water-related diseases.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Kampala, Uganda

Jamal Kato uses a spade to separate peanuts as he grinds them into paste at his store at Owino Market in Kampala, Uganda. Kato sells the paste, which is used to make peanut sauce, a local delicacy.

Photo by Patricia Lindrio

Buenos Aires, Argentina

At Parque Chacabuco, a park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thiago Herrera, 10, plays soccer tennis with neighborhood friends, debuting a new net that was given to them for Christmas. In this game, the ball is kicked over the net, and one team tries to get the ball to bounce on the other team’s side of the court.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Inuvil, Sri Lanka

Karunakaran Akshayan (left), Thanaventhan Kishotharan and Rajeevan Vaishalini, all 5 years old, dress up as Hindu gods for a performance at their preschool, Ilanthondar Sabha, in Inuvil, a village in northern Sri Lanka. The children are Montessori students. The Montessori method is an approach to teaching that is activity-based and more hands-on for the students.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

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

Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Tachyse Leila Denis demonstrates on Tara Wilmine how to create a traditional head wrap during a training session in Pétion-Ville, Haiti. Denis organizes training sessions by request, to help men and women in her community connect with their cultural identity.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

New Delhi, India

Renu Di cuts white radishes on her job at Dastarkhwan, a canteen staffed solely by women, at Jamia Millia Islamia, a public university in New Delhi, India. The canteen is run by seven women who employ 40 others to serve 5,000 customers a day.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

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