Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Harare, Zimbabwe

Bullet Kaitano cuts away excess paper as he binds a photocopied school textbook to sell on the street in Harare, Zimbabwe. Kaitano, who buys the original books from graduates, says that despite the illegality of copying textbooks to sell, his photocopied volumes are popular with schoolchildren who cannot afford to purchase new ones.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Sheema District, Uganda

Medad Kamukama harvests ripe coffee beans at his home garden in Uganda’s Sheema district. The beans turn from green to red when they are ready to harvest, which is usually from May to August. Kamukama gets 5,000 Ugandan shillings ($1.33) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of clean and dried coffee, and his crop is then exported to the European Union.

Photo by Edna Namara

Harare, Zimbabwe

During a tour of National Waste Collections in Harare, Zimbabwe, employee Moleen Sithole teaches students about the different types of paper that the facility collects and recycles into various products. The students are members of an environmental club at Kwenda High School in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Rugerero, Rwanda

Shadrack Byukusenge, 8, draws water from the Sebeya River in Rugerero, a sector in Rwanda’s northwestern Rubavu district. After heavy rains blocked the pipes that carry water to his village of Rushubi, Shadrack walked 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) to retrieve water from the river.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Chabahil, Nepal

Mamata Khushbadia makes “silauto,” or traditional grinding utensils, on the streets of Chabahil, a town in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. Silauto, which are made of stone, are used to grind spices and to make tomato pickles. It can take up to three days for Khushbadia to make one silauto, depending on its size.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Edward Ap Iwan, a guard and clerk for Asociación Amigos del Tranvía, which works to preserve, restore and reinstall historical tram and subway cars, tells visitors about the history of the tramway in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires. Tours are offered on weekends and holidays.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

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

Banepa, Nepal

Vehicles dodge abandoned bulls resting in the middle of the Araniko Highway in Banepa, Nepal. Families sometimes abandon bull calves because they will never produce milk as cows do and thus have less value. The male animals are left to wander the streets.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Carrefour, Haiti

Jackson Jean, 30, draws portraits at his home in Carrefour, a neighborhood in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Jean, who discovered his artistic talent when he was a little boy, started selling sketches in 2009. Local customers often give his portraits as gifts.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Mexico City, Mexico

The performer Payaso Kachito sells balloons made in the image of recently elected Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico City’s Zócalo, the capital’s historic main square, on election night, July 1. At a rally celebrating the win, Payaso Kachito sold balloons for 70 pesos ($3.50) each. In a landslide victory Sunday night, López Obrador became Mexico’s first leftist candidate to win the presidency.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

Luis Koga, 41, who has been a Japanese language professor, translator and calligrapher for 25 years, demonstrates calligraphy for the event “Japan in the Metro” (Japón en el Metro) at a Mexico City Metro station. Koga offered to write the names of attendees in Japanese for free, during one portion of the monthlong event, a collaboration between the city’s public transportation system and the Japan Collective, which presents different Japanese-style artistic activities at six of the 195 metro stations in Mexico City.

Photo by Mar García

Kathmandu, Nepal

Sita Yadav, 3, plays with pigeons near Basantapur Durbar Square, a World Heritage site in Kathmandu, Nepal. Tourists and other visitors at the temples there often bring food for the pigeons, and children enjoy feeding, playing with or trying to catch the birds.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Lower Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe

Young men from the various villages around Nyamakate, a community in Lower Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, play a game of Rural Youth League football. This was the final match of the youth league, which was created to give young people a positive outlet for their energy.

Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Mexico City, Mexico

Public water fountains at the Monument to the Revolution in downtown Mexico City are a source of relaxation and refreshment amid high temperatures. The monument’s fountains shoot water directly from the ground, allowing visitors to walk and play in the fountains.

Photo by Mar García

Goma, North Kivu, DRC

Joel Baguma (foreground) and others who belong to Promo Jeune Basket, an organization that teaches basketball skills to children, read books after practice in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Another organization, Books for Eastern Congo, lends the books to the children after their practice sessions three times a week.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

Tourists and visitors to the Nishat Garden in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, enjoy its fountains. Domestic and international tourists flock to the garden on the banks of Dal Lake during spring and summer, when the plants are in bloom and the trees are green.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Mexico City, Mexico

Fernanda Sánchez, 18, and Luis Sánchez, 18, prepare “tlayudas,” a typical dish from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, made with large tortillas. Sánchez prepared hers with beans, cabbage, cheese and meat, during the second Feria Consume Local in Mexico City’s main square. The annual fair was created to promote and sell local food and artisanal products.

Photo by Mar García

Buenos Aires, Argentina

María Barrera arranges her plants at a farmer’s market in the Parque Patricios neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. “I like to sell rare plants,” Barrera says. “I already have my clients who know that I try to bring different plants.”

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Chajul, Guatemala

In Chemal, a community in the town of Chajul in El Quiché department, Guatemala, Gaspar Caba, 24, teaches María Cedillo to read and write in a program under the auspices of the Comité Nacional de Alfabetización, the country’s national literacy committee. Once a week, adults in the community who did not attend school as children meet to learn to read and write basic words.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Mexico City, Mexico

Omar Álvarez, 19, waters plants that adorn a median on a road in the Benito Juárez delegation in central Mexico City. The delegation contracts the tanker truck to water plants in the area, says Álvarez.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Carnegie, Oklahoma

A dandelion, or gúlkìñà:dàu (gool-keeñ-ah-daw) in the language of the Kiowa Tribe, glows in the sunset at Carnegie Lower Park in Carnegie, Oklahoma. The wildflower, which can be used for food, medicine and dye, sheds its golden petals once the warmer temperatures of spring and summer arrive, giving way to exposed seeds. Folklore has it that if you make a wish and blow off all the seeds in a single breath, your wish will come true.

Photo by Amanda Hill

Goma, North Kivu, DRC

Catherine Mutokambali, of Himbi, a neighborhood in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, washes her clothes on the shore of Lake Kivu. After about 15 years of water shortages at her home, Mutokambali wakes up at 5 a.m. daily to do laundry at Lake Kivu, she says.

Photo by Nadia Kanyere Karasisi

Mexico City, Mexico

Víctor Hugo Martínez, 19, loads 20- to 25-kilogram (44- to 55-pound) sacks of plastic bottles onto a truck at a recycling center in the Xochimilco delegation of southern Mexico City. The bottles will be transported to the suburb of Ixtapaluca, where they will be processed and recycled.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Kyanja, Uganda

In Kyanja, a suburb of Kampala, Uganda, Simon Kintu, 16, swings William Kato, 9, as he carries James Milimo, 15, on his shoulders in an acrobatic act performed for audience donations. The trio, who say they earn an average 30,000 to 60,000 Ugandan shillings ($7.85 to $15.70) per day, began performing publicly in 2015, after they perfected their acrobatic skills and developed their stunts.

Photo by Apophia Agiresaasi

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