Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Kathmandu, Nepal

During the Nag Panchami festival on Aug. 16, Hindu devotees visit a temple in Nagpokhari, a neighborhood in Kathmandu, Nepal, to do puja, a religious ceremony in which they offer milk, money and flowers to Hindu snake deities.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Kathmandu, Nepal

Ram Bahadur Shrestha (right), 53, rides between New Road and Thamel in Kathmandu, Nepal, seeking passengers for his rickshaw. Shrestha, who has been a rickshaw driver for 22 years, makes about 1,000 to 1,500 Nepalese rupees ($9 to $13) per day.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Cheddikulam, Sri Lanka

Tamil Hindus gather at Vavvala Lake in the Sri Lankan village of Cheddikulam for the annual Aadi Amavasai, or the new moon for the Tamil month Aadi, which occurs in July and August. To pray for the souls of their departed fathers, the group observes several rituals on the occasion.

Photo by Thayalini Indrakularasa

Mexico City, Mexico

Tania Guzmán practices hairstyling on her colleague Luis Rodríguez. Both are studying at the Instituto Sol, a beauty school in central Mexico City. The two were in week three of a four-month course. After graduating, Guzmán plans to open a beauty salon, and Rodríguez hopes to open a barbershop and tattoo studio.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Lusaka, Zambia

Members of Inganzo Ngari, a traditional dance troupe from Rwanda, appear at the Agriculture and Commercial Show in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital. Inganzo Ngari performs Rwandan folk dances.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Entebbe, Uganda

Ampwera Delbert talks with security guards who inquire whether he needs help with his luggage after his arrival at the Nakiwogo dock in Entebbe, Uganda. Delbert, who studies ethics and human rights at Makerere University in Kampala, was coming from Bugala Island, Kalangala district, where he completed an internship with the Uganda Red Cross Society’s Kalangala branch.

Photo by Edna Namara

Mannar, Sri Lanka

Sivakumar Sarusan, 18, carries heated tar to repair Sornapury-Adampan road, in Sri Lanka’s Mannar district. At 6 a.m., Sarusan and the road repair team begin by heating the barrels of tar. They then fill in damaged parts of the road with crushed limestone, over which they pour the tar and sand.

Photo by Vetrichelvi Chandrakala

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Karen Ameal Vera practices parkour at the Parque Rivadavia in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Vera belongs to Facebook and WhatsApp groups whose members meet around the city every Wednesday to practice and teach one another parkour, an urban sport that blends gymnastics and stunts. Vera says, “It becomes a way of life. Now, I look at everything through parkour; I confront life’s obstacles in a different way.”

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Athlete and sports journalist Bárbara Roskin and indoor football player Gonzalo Abdala practice freestyle football, which entails athletic and acrobatic tricks, at the Parque Rivadavia, a public park in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At first, freestyle football was a hobby for the pair, but now they make videos and perform at events and shows.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Theo Bakoko, 20, who attends a technical secondary school, plays a game called “cadra” in Kisangani, a city in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The two-player game costs 200 Congolese francs (12 cents) to play and is popular among students during their summer vacation.

Photo by Francine Ishay Mulumba

Carrefour, Haiti

Melissa Eximond, 17, a blue belt, trains under instructor Tales Joseph during a karate class at the Association d'art martial Shotokan karate do d'haiti, a martial arts school in Carrefour, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The school offers classes for children ages 6 to 18, and it tests them every four months for a chance to advance to the next colored belt as well as to help them prepare for national competitions.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Damassin, Haiti

Elyores Senat, 33, picks a coconut from the very top of a tree in Damassin, Haiti. Senat has been doing this work since age 12. He picks the fruit for a farm owner, who pays him in coconuts, which Senat can later sell. He enjoys the job and sees it as a way to give back to his community, whose residents use coconuts in a variety of foods.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Goma, North Kivu, DRC

During school vacations, Nathalie Bahati, 10, learns sewing and tailoring from her mother, Francine Bushoke, a well-known seamstress in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Nathalie, who has been sewing for two years, makes some of her own clothes and also sells garments at her mother’s workshop at the front of their home.

Photo by Nadia Kanyere Karasisi

Sheema District, Uganda

Musimenta Frank (left) and Akobumosi Cosmas take bananas to the Kabwohe market in Uganda’s Sheema district. Four times a day, the duo make the 6-mile journey to transport the green bananas, known locally as “matoke,” from their garden in Masheruka to the market, and each of them earns about 70,000 Ugandan shillings ($18.76) per trip.

Photo by Edna Namara

Komanda, Ituri Province, DRC

In Komanda village in Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeastern Ituri province, Georgette Mwasi, 42, repairs a jerrican using a heated metal tool and recycled plastics. Jerricans, which are important in the area for transporting and storing water, cost more than 5,000 Congolese francs ($3.10) each, while Mwasi charges only 300 francs (19 cents) to repair a broken one.

Photo by Pascaline Kavuo Mwasi Saambili

Harare, Zimbabwe

The ZCC Police Band kicked off the first Zimbabwe Peace Festival, in Harare on July 27. The event was created to pray for political tolerance and peace in the run-up to the July 30 general elections. Previous elections in Zimbabwe have been marred by widespread violence and accusations of corruption, so many Zimbabweans hope Monday's vote will be the first fair elections in more than a generation.

Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Kindergarten students play tug of war during Tshaka Pre-School’s annual sports day, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. They took part in various activities throughout the day, including a sack race and a relay race, with prizes of certificates and T-shirts given to the top three winners.

Photo by Fortune Moyo

Sololá, Guatemala

Local painter Julio Cotuc paints children’s games on the playground of a primary school in Aldea Chaquijyá, a village in Sololá, Guatemala. The school’s teachers arranged for the games to be painted in order to help the students have fun during recess.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Kampala, Uganda

Joanita Sulayiman (front left) and other local women wash discarded polyethylene bags in a drainage ditch in Uganda’s Kampala district. The women sell the washed bags to local manufacturers for recycling.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Kathmandu, Nepal

Ayesha Rana takes a picture with her phone of the “mehendi,” or henna, being applied to her hand by Santosh Kumar on New Road in Kathmandu, Nepal. Mehendi artists such as Kumar, who charge 100 Nepalese rupees (90 cents) for a simple design, are a common sight on the busy New Road during the Nepali month of Shrawan, which began on July 17. Married women get mehendi to ensure the long lives of their husbands, and unmarried women do it to get a good husband in the future.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Mexico City, Mexico

Every morning, Jesús Rodríguez, 60, shovels fresh, crushed ice onto a display stand for raw fish and seafood at his family’s shop in the Mercado Portales, a market in Mexico City. Rodríguez, who has worked at the fish shop for 50 years, says he uses 14 to 16 boxes of crushed ice in the display.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

In downtown Mexico City, Ma Ortensia Rico Lara, 56, an Evangelical, preaches the “Evangelio de la Salvación” (Gospel of Salvation), inviting people to ask questions and reading from Scripture. Rico Lara, who has spoken at this downtown plaza every day from 4-10 p.m. for the past 10 years, says, “Preaching is the opportunity for human beings to save themselves.”

Photo by Mar García

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Catalina Tomás entertains the crowd during a protest against a proposed law that would fine street performers such as her for making “annoying noises” in public spaces in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The proposal, by the city government, would allow people to anonymously complain to the police about noise made by musicians and other performers.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Lusaka, Zambia

Samson Tembo (left) dribbles the ball around goalkeeper Richard Lungu, who attempts to defend the goal during a practice hockey match at the Olympic Youth Development Centre, a sports venue for young people in Lusaka, Zambia. The duo are part of a team that will participate in the Africa Youth Games, to be held in Algeria July 18-28.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

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