Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

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

For at least five hours a day, Ortencio de Villa weaves women’s clothes in a variety of popular local styles in San Juan Cotzal, in Quiché department, Guatemala. De Villa provides for his family, despite the social stigma and “machista,” or macho, ideology that keep many men from doing this type of work.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Sololá, Guatemala

Joel Julajuj (left), 19, and José Julajuj, 17, who are not related, participate in a workshop at their school in Chaquijyá village in Sololá, a department in southwestern Guatemala. The event is an icebreaker, at which those attending gave each other flowers and talked about their goals, to learn how they can support one another and motivate themselves to be successful.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Chaquijyá, Guatemala

Children aged 10 to 15 use a computer in one of their first technology classes at the Escuela Guadalupana, a school in Chaquijyá village in the department of Sololá, Guatemala. Their teacher, Leona Sajvin, provides her personal computer to show the students the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Mexico City, Mexico

Adela Álvarez, 50, (center) reacts to being anointed with holy water at a chapel outside the Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe, a Catholic sanctuary in Mexico City dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe. Álvarez says she is very devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe, and she often goes to the basilica to ask for help or to express gratitude.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

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

Quiché, Guatemala

Engracia Lainez uses a rolling pin to make artisanal cheese in Quiché, a department in northwestern Guatemala. Lainez and her children make cheese six times a week as a source of income to support the family.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Kathmandu, Nepal

Performers danced in a parade during the Gaijatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, on Aug. 8. The Hindu festival honors those who have died in the past year. The festivities coincided with this year’s Pride parade, organized by LGBT rights nonprofit Blue Diamond Society, to also memorialize recently deceased members of the LGBT community.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Kandy, Sri Lanka

During the Kandy Esala Perahera festival on Aug. 7, a dancer performed a traditional routine that involved balancing a spinning hand drum, or Ath Raban, on his finger. This 10-day festival in Kandy, in central Sri Lanka, celebrates the city’s Sacred Tooth Relic of Buddha, and features a procession of dressed-up elephants, acrobats and musicians, along with a variety of local and cultural dances.

Photo by Sahana David Menon

Gulariya, Bardiya District, Nepal

Farmers harvest paddy seeds from their land in Gulariya, a municipality in Nepal’s Bardiya district. During the off-season, the seeds are sold to farmers in the Terai lowlands, where rice is the main crop.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Douala, Cameroon

Claire-Adèle Ndoko (right, foreground), a firefighting trainee, practices taking her position in a march during a month-long course for children aged 7 to 16, organized by a firefighting unit in Ngodi, a neighborhood in Douala, Cameroon. The children, who are on summer vacation, learned various skills that could help them save lives and property during a blaze or a health emergency, such as an epileptic seizure.

Photo by Irene Zih Fon

Mexico City, Mexico

Juan Barbosa, 23, (right) and Victor Carlos, 23, sing covers of tunes by 1960s artists, like The Beatles and The Doors, in downtown Mexico City with their band The Folks. The group performs in the streets, as well as at private events, to get money to fund personal musical projects.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Oyo State, Nigeria

A farmworker in Lalate, a small area in Oyo state, Nigeria, helps another put a bowl of cassava roots on her head to carry to a nearby truck, which will deliver it to a processing factory. Cassava is a staple food in Nigeria and can be ground into a paste, which is used to make several local dishes.

Photo by Temitayo Olofinlua

Rubavu District, Rwanda

Visitors enjoy Gisenyi beach in Rwanda’s Rubavu district, on the shores of Lake Kivu, a large freshwater lake on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Rwanda, the beaches are open to everyone year-round, so many people cross the border from DRC, where there are fewer open beaches.

Photo by Ley Uwera

Goma, North Kivu, DRC

Kennedy Mukadi, 14, performs a hip-hop choreographic style called krumping at the third annual Kivu Dance Battle in July, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Goma, North Kivu province. Faraja Batumike, the event’s founder, says the dance battle gives young artists an opportunity to display their talents and may help them cross into a professional career.

Photo by Ley Uwera

Mexico City, Mexico

Christopher Corzo, 16, falls after attempting a trick at a skate park in eastern Mexico City. Corzo started rollerblading a year ago and says he practices at least 12 hours each week. “I’m going to keep scarring myself, but I want more,” Corzo says about learning from his falls.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

A July exhibit at the CompArte por la Humanidad festival, in San Cristóbal de las Casas in southern Mexico, featured images of hundreds of people believed to be disappeared. The exhibit, which showed faces and eyes of the missing people printed on pillows and paper and hung on clothesline, was created by H.I.J.O.S. México, an organization founded by the children of people who have disappeared in Mexico.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Kampala, Uganda

Victoria Nabasa, 13, (right) a student from the Chiperoy Nursery and Primary School demonstrates traditional methods of cooking traditional cuisine at the Uganda International Cultural Fair, which took place at the Uganda Museum in Kampala on July 28. The fair is held once a year.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Kampala, Uganda

The drummers of Kika Entertainment performed for guests with their traditional Bakisimba music at the opening event of the Buganda Book Fair on July 20 in Kampala, Uganda. The event encouraged reading and writing, especially in the Luganda language, and focused on topics relating to Buganda, a kingdom in central Uganda that includes Kampala, the nation’s capital.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Samuel Saint Louis, 22, peels freshly cut sugarcane stalks to sell in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Saint Louis, who has sold sugarcane for seven years, earns about 500 Haitian gourdes ($8) per day, which helps him support his two sisters.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Aldea, Chaquijyá, Guatemala

Félix Solares (right) tends to the gladioli that he grows in a plot in front of his home in Aldea Chaquijyá, a hamlet in southwestern Guatemala. He and his son, Byron, will later cut and sell them by the dozen in local markets.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Vendors sell balloons and cotton candy in the plaza of the Catedral de San Cristóbal Mártir church in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a major city in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The city attracts visitors year-round with its cuisine and colonial architecture.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Kanyaruchinya, North Kivu, DRC

In Kanyaruchinya village in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, a cholera outbreak that began in July has claimed the lives of 15 people, most under the age of 10. In response, authorities have created a quarantine area within the Majengo neighborhood of Goma, 10 kilometers (6 miles) to the south. More than 1,100 cases have been reported so far.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

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

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