Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Rubavu District, Rwanda

Marie Nyirarukundo sells eggplants, which she bought from local farmers, at the Mbugangari market in Rwanda’s Rubavu District, on the border of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Quiché, Guatemala

Miguel Ramírez, 32, cares for about 4,500 cypress and pine trees four times a week in the western department of Quiché, Guatemala. The trees will later be planted to combat climate change’s effects on this agriculture-dependent region.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Harare, Zimbabwe, Chriss Grey (left), the host of a weekly music TV show called “Live Sessions,” interviews singer Takura about his successes and failures in the music industry. Programs like “Live Sessions” help the local television and entertainment industries in Zimbabwe to reach younger audiences.

Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Nyundo, Rubavu, Rwanda

Jeanne d’Arc Uwimana (right) sews toys with Mariana Nyiragasigwa in Nyundo, a community in Rwanda’s western Rubavu district. The two women are members of KOMERA, a cooperative that helps to start businesses like this one, which brings together tailors to make clothes, bags, hats, carpets and toys.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Mariano Julio Santiago Flores, 85, shows a shoe he made in his workshop in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a city in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Santiago Flores says he became a shoemaker at age 15, after training as an apprentice.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

A lagoon fisherman sorts his prawn catch by size before placing his haul for auction at the Gurunagar fish market in Jaffna, a city at the northern edge of Sri Lanka. Fishermen can auction large quantities of their seafood at this market, and they group the bigger specimens to sell at a higher price.

Photo by Manori Wijesekera

San Pedro Garza García, Mexico

María Isabel González, 54, is a pepenadora who collects and sells garbage to recycling companies. She is searching for cardboard in San Pedro Garza García, a city in Mexico’s northern state of Nuevo León. A pepenador can make 2 Mexican pesos (11 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cardboard.

Photo by Itzel Hervert

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

People celebrate LGBT Pride Month with the Marcha por la Dignidad, or March for Dignity, in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas state, Mexico, on June 24. The march’s purpose was to foster recognition of and respect for all ways that love can be expressed in the city.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Cyanzarwe, Rwanda

Canisius Habanabakize, a cabbage farmer from the town of Cyanzarwe, transports his crops by bicycle to the Mbugangari Market in Gisenyi, a port in western Rwanda. Farmers use bicycles to move their products to avoid paying for transportation or gasoline.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

San Juan Cotzal, Guatemala

Ana Pérez Gómez experiments with cost-effective handwashing techniques during a lesson on water-conserving handwashing methods in San Juan Cotzal, a municipality in Guatemala’s western highlands. The lesson was a part of PAISANO, a six-year food security project in Guatemala, implemented by the nonprofits Save the Children and Project Concern International.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Mandandeupur, Nepal

Voters in Nepal’s Mandandeupur municipality attend a celebration organized by the Nepali Congress party after its panel won the local election. In May, local elections were held for the first time in 20 years, and this was the first election for Nepal under its new constitution.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Kampala, Uganda

A group performs a cultural dance from the Kigezi region at a public event called “Partnering for Development” in Kampala, Uganda, organized by the World Bank Group and the national government. At the May 30 gathering, 52 Ugandan government agencies showcased their work and services.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Antonio Hernández López, a traditional herbalist, performs an indigenous Mayan ritual with María Gómez Díaz, who prays in the Tsotsil language for a successful Festival de la Paz y la Diversidad Cultural. The May event in San Cristóbal de las Casas in southern Mexico was a celebration of peace and cultural diversity. Hernández López poured pox, a traditional corn-based liquor, on dried corn, flowers and candles as an offering to the land and the Roman Catholic virgins and saints.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

Rufunsa, Zambia

Miriam Tembo, 7, draws water from a borehole at Kankumba Primary School in Rufunsa, Zambia. According to UNICEF, the U.N.’s child advocacy agency, more than a third of Zambians do not have easy access to clean water.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Woodly Caymite, 24, a resident of the Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, uses a rotary tool to refine a sculpture. Caymite has been using sculpting as a therapeutic tool since the 2010 earthquake, which killed many of his loved ones.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Santa María Nebaj, Guatemala

At a community meeting, women from Santa María Nebaj, Guatemala, draw out plans for their family gardens. The group meets every two weeks to share gardening ideas and experiences that help each family grow its own healthy food to eat or to sell.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Bali, Indonesia

Balinese Hindus and tourists perform Melukat, a holy water ritual, in the holy springs of Tirta Empul, a temple and national cultural heritage site in the village of Manukaya on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Performing Melukat symbolizes eliminating negative energies and influences that may affect a person’s mental and physical state.

Photo by Sahana David Menon

Mustang, Nepal

Men from South India perform a form of worship called puja at Muktinath, a holy pilgrimage site for Hindus and Buddhists in Mustang, Nepal. Devotees come to Muktinath to do different types of pujas, and these three are performing sharada, in which they chant prayers and offer water and food to their deceased family members.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Mustang, Nepal

Pasang Gurung, 49, uses a hand loom to weave traditional clothes and accessories for herself and her family in Mustang, a district in northwestern Nepal. Hand looms are common in Mustang villages, and some residents sell their products to foreign tourists for extra income.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Upper Mustang, Nepal

Chimmi Rinzing Gurung, 50, and his horses travel around Lo Manthang village in Upper Mustang, a region in northwestern Nepal. Gurung charges tourists 1,500 Nepalese rupees (about $15) for a round-trip horseback ride to their destination, where he tends to the horses while the tourists go sightseeing.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Lo Manthang, Upper Mustang, Nepal

Karma Tashi, 50, takes his chyangras, or mountain goats, to graze in the hills outside of the Lo Manthang village in Upper Mustang, Nepal. The chyangras are kept and sold for their wool.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Mustang, Nepal

A sadhu, a Hindu who has renounced the worldly life, sits outside the Muktinath Temple, waiting to receive alms from the pilgrims who came to visit the holy site in Mustang, Nepal. Sadhus spend their time traveling to different Hindu temples and holy sites, and Muktinath is one of the oldest Hindu temples.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Upper Mustang, Nepal

On the outskirts of Lo Manthang, a village in Upper Mustang, Yanzen Gurung hangs a khada, a ceremonial scarf, as an offering to the gods that protect her maternal homeland. She was about to return to Kathmandu, where she lives with her husband. People in the Upper Mustang region believe the gods protect the lands and the hills, and they offer prayers and khadas to them and hang Buddhist prayer flags.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Naomie Phillis, 50, sells traditional herbal medicine in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Phillis has sold medicinal herbs since the age of 9, when she helped her mother. She uses many local herbs and plants, such as chamomile and thyme (left basket) and ginger root (center baskets), to alleviate afflictions that include coughs, other cold symptoms and menstruation pain.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

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Rubavu District, Rwanda

Quiché, Guatemala

Harare, Zimbabwe

Nyundo, Rubavu, Rwanda

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

San Pedro Garza García, Mexico

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Cyanzarwe, Rwanda

San Juan Cotzal, Guatemala

Mandandeupur, Nepal

Kampala, Uganda

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Rufunsa, Zambia

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Santa María Nebaj, Guatemala

Bali, Indonesia

Mustang, Nepal

Mustang, Nepal

Upper Mustang, Nepal

Lo Manthang, Upper Mustang, Nepal

Mustang, Nepal

Upper Mustang, Nepal

Port-au-Prince, Haiti