Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe

Obrian Shumba, of Gwanda High School, drinks water between rounds during tryout matches for the Matabeleland South provincial boxing team in Zimbabwe. The team will represent the province at the annual National Youth Games in Hwange, a city in Matabeleland North.

Photo by Vimbai Chinembiri

Quiché, Guatemala

Every day for about five hours, Marta Cobo, 11, takes her family’s goats out to the pastures in Quiché, a department in northwestern Guatemala, where she and her father then collect firewood. Many families in this region rely on herding livestock for their food and economic resources.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Rubavu District, Rwanda

People line up in Rubavu District in Rwanda’s Western Province to vote on Aug. 4 in a presidential election. More than 400 people had gathered by 7 a.m. at the College de Gisenyi Inyemeramihigo voting site. President Paul Kagame won in a landslide victory. The country amended its constitution in 2015 to allow him to run for a third term.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

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

Wadduwa, Kalutara District, Sri Lanka

Lal Perera, 60, a toddy tapper, walks between coconut trees, from which he extracts the sap of the coconut flowers for a beverage called toddy. He works in Wadduwa, a town in Sri Lanka’s Kalutara district. Perera, who has been toddy tapping for 30 years, says he taps around 80 trees every day, except during heavy rains. Learn more about toddy tapping here.

Photo by Manori Wijesekera

Kahuzi, Biega National Park, DRC

Bijoux Zawadi, 29, serves as a park warden defending the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kahuzi Biega National Park from armed poachers. This park, like other protected areas in the nation, is managed by the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature. “When I hold my AK-47 in my hands, I become more confident and feel great,” she says. “I value my AK-47 like a farmer treasures his ax, and I cannot detach myself from it.”

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

Bardiya District, Nepal

Shyam Yadam, 36, plows his land in the Terai area of Nepal’s Bardiya district, where most of the farmers grow rice. Planting occurs during the monsoon season, from June to September.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Kitchanga, North Kivu, DRC

Sugabo Shabani, a widowed father of eight, purchases drinking water for 50 Congolese francs (3 cents) per 19-liter (5-gallon) jerry can, which he carries and sells to restaurants at a market in the city of Kitchanga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. Shabani walks to the market carrying two jerry cans by hand, and he can take nearly 500 liters (130 gallons) per day.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Bukavu, South Kivu, DRC

Zacharie Tabaro, 57, sands a guitar he is making in Bukavu, the capital of the South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tabaro has trained about 50 young people from Bukavu in the art of making guitars.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Bardiya District, Nepal

Farmers plant rice in the Terai lowlands of Gularia in Nepal’s Bardiya district. The crop-planting season coincides with the monsoon season, which generally occurs between June and September.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico

Martha Guzmán Santis (right) and María Santis López (left) cook handmade corn tortillas using a comal, or griddle, and a wood fire in their community of Cruz Pilar, in the Tenejapa municipality of Chiapas, Mexico. Open fires, which can expose the user to strong heat and smoke inhalation, are used often in the indigenous communities of Chiapas.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

Lusaka, Zambia

Queen Daka (left) and Janet Musonda practice football on a makeshift field also used by traders in Chawama, a neighborhood in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital. Daka says many other girls like her play football to avoid vices and to seek corporate sponsorships that could lead to a football career or allow them to return to school.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

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

Quiché, Guatemala

Marta Matom Brito, 40, teaches her son Jacinto Alexander Brito Brito, 8, how to plant trees in their village of Salquil Grande, in Guatemala’s Quiché department. The family planted pine, cypress and alder trees to help mitigate the effects of climate change.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Lusaka, Zambia

On July 4, firefighters survey the damage at the Lusaka City Market, after a blaze destroyed 1,901 of the 4,000 stalls. The venue is the largest trading market in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Teotihuacán, Mexico

Tenoch López, 44, sells jade and obsidian sculptures made by local artisans to tourists at the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon in the ancient city of Teotihuacán, a UNESCO World Heritage site about 30 miles northeast of Mexico City. “Foreigners see my work as art; locals often think they are just knickknacks, and I have troubles selling them,” Lopez says. “Then I lower the price, and the Americans and Europeans tell me that I’m crazy.”

Photo by Itzel Hervert

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Mount Pleasant, a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe, Nyasha Manyeruke, 20, shows artwork that her company, Reysh Alef, collects and sells as a part of its Art of Humanity Project, which helps artists to network and to sell their works. The project also uses materials made from recycled waste to make science kits that are donated to schools in impoverished areas.

Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Teotihuacán, Mexico

Near the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon in Teotihuacán, Mexico, Juan de Dios Vargas, 57, sells obsidian and jade sculptures made by local artisans. The archaeological site and ancient city of Teotihuacán, about 30 miles northeast of Mexico City, has UNESCO World Heritage status.

Photo by Itzel Hervert

Iguala, Mexico

The Caravana Ayotzinapa, a group seeking to raise awareness concerning the case of 43 students who disappeared in Iguala, Mexico, in September 2014, concluded a tour in San Cristóbal de las Casas on July 1. The group, comprising the students’ family members and their supporters, toured the Mexican states of Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Campeche, Tabasco and Chiapas, urging further investigation into the unsolved case.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Mexico City, Mexico

Train riders using the Mexico City Metro take advantage of the cool mist sprayed by one of the 10 fans at the Hidalgo station, the hottest location in the underground system. In spring and summer, 99 sprayers and misting fans are switched on in Mexico City’s metro stations to reduce the temperature.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

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Goma, North Kivu, DRC

Wadduwa, Kalutara District, Sri Lanka

Kahuzi, Biega National Park, DRC

Sololá, Guatemala

Bardiya District, Nepal

Kitchanga, North Kivu, DRC

Bukavu, South Kivu, DRC

Bardiya District, Nepal

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Harare, Zimbabwe

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Quiché, Guatemala

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Harare, Zimbabwe

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Iguala, Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico