Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Kampala, Uganda

Children ride the playground’s merry-go-round at a Christmas party held at St. Angella Nursery Day and Boarding Primary School in Kisaasi, a suburb of Kampala, Uganda.

Photo by Apophia Agiresaasi

Kampala, Uganda

From left: Musa Kintu, Simon Kirya, Esau Mukisa and Edgar Mirimu, ages 5 to 7, slide down a hill on a broken vehicle part near the Kalerwe Market in Kalerwe, a suburb of Kampala, Uganda. Their parents sell goods at the market.

Photo by Apophia Agiresaasi

Mexico City, Mexico

Nazli Regina Torres, (second from right) 7, plays amid lights and fog at an installation celebrating the 10th anniversary of the designation of the Central University Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Nov. 23 event was organized by UNAM’s architecture faculty.

Photo by Mar García

Kathmandu, Nepal

Schoolchildren play at the construction site at the Jaye Saraswati Primary School in Kathmandu, Nepal’s Kavrey district. The school was destroyed in the 2015 earthquake, and rebuilding began last year.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Chaquijyá, Guatemala

Luis Palax, 13, gets ready to fly his kite in Chaquijyá, a village in Guatemala’s Sololá department. Luis made the kite with tissue paper, straw and thread.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Kampala, Uganda

James Tendo danced as he whistled and blew the vuvuzela to attract customers on Oct. 6 to buy merchandise tied to the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying match the next day between the Uganda Cranes and the Ghana Black Stars football teams at Mandela National Stadium in Kampala, Uganda. Tendo’s items included Uganda Cranes jerseys, vuvuzelas, whistles and wristbands. The game ended in a draw. Uganda will compete again on Nov. 12 against the Congo Diables Rouges team.

Photo by Patricia Lindrio

Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala

Classmates Antonio Guzaro (right), 8, and Mario de Paz, 9, play marbles on a street in Vicalama, a community in the Nebaj municipality of Guatemala’s Quiché department. During the evenings, children can be found playing marbles, a popular children’s game in Guatemala, on the street, in schools or at their homes.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Lusaka, Zambia

Children from a nearby settlement called Kalikiliki swim in a pond that formed from standing water in Ibex Hill, a suburb in Lusaka, Zambia. The children say they have no other recreational facilities, so they play here, despite the dangers of standing water, which could include diseases such as bilharzia, an infection caused by parasitic worms.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Kampala, Uganda

Gomba County football team fans celebrate a goal against Ssingo County during the Airtel Masaza Cup at Mandela National Stadium in Kampala, Uganda. Gomba won the game 1-0. The annual football tournament features teams from the 18 counties that make up the Buganda Kingdom in Uganda.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Kampala, Uganda

Hope Ayite does level 2 of a ropes challenge at Extreme Adventure Park in Busiika, a residential area about 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of Kampala, Uganda. The park, which opened in 2014, provides outdoor activities that include the three-level ropes course, wall climbing, zip-lining, power jumps, bamboo rafting, a spider web-shaped climbing net and paintball.

Photo by Apophia Agiresaasi

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

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

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

Weliweriya, Sri Lanka

Children with special needs from 12 schools in the Gampaha education zone play a traditional game at the Kanthi Ground playground in Weliweriya, a town in Sri Lanka. Team members are pulled to the finish line on sheaths made from the leaves of the areca palm tree. Traditional games were part of a festival celebrating the Sinhalese Hindu New Year, which began on April 14.

Photo by Nirasha Piyawadani

Kathmandu, Nepal

Martial artists gather at a competition organized by the Nepal Budo Kai Do Full Contact Association in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. Kaji Man Shrestha, the chairman of the March event, says it was important to hold the competition in a public place to promote awareness about the sport.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Harare, Zimbabwe

Boys and young men play video games at the Unique Barbershop in Harare, Zimbabwe, a barbershop and gaming center housed inside an old bus. The shop attracts five or six customers a day for haircuts and many others who come to play video games. Customers pay 10 cents for five minutes of playing time.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Buganda Kingdom, Uganda

Rowers from the participating counties within the Buganda Kingdom in Uganda race boats during the annual Royal Regatta on Lake Victoria. The tradition of boat racing among the kingdom’s residents has been around for centuries, local officials say, and it helps the community to celebrate its culture and to emphasize unity. This race took place in February.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Lusaka, Zambia

Aggrey Daka, 85, (left) plays a traditional Zambian game known as “nsolo” with his friends at a shelter in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital. Daka, who stays at the shelter, and his friends say that playing the game today reminds them of when they played as young men, in the “good old days.”

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Mexico City, Mexico

Carlos Badillo Pedraza, 18, performs an ollie, a skateboarding trick where the rider jumps off the ground by pushing off the back of the board. Badillo Pedraza, originally from the western state of Michoacán, moved to Mexico City last year to become a chef. He says he has skated since he was a child, and now he’s looking for more parks like the Skate Park San Cosme, located under a bridge in the capital.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Harare, Zimbabwe

Ticharwa Shingirai positions a cue ball, aiming to hit a red ball into a corner pocket. Shingirai and his friends are known as “touts” for their work shooing passengers into public transport buses in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Here, they play billiards as they wait for another rush of commuters.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Mexico City, Mexico

Gabriel Peralta, 8, celebrates having won a game against other children in his neighborhood by being the first to catch a pig that has been covered in animal grease and oil. Gabriel’s prize is the pig itself, which he takes home. The game occurred in Barrio de la Asunción, a neighborhood in Mexico City, as a celebration of one of the neighborhood’s patron saints, Virgen del Rosario, known in English as Our Lady of the Rosary. This celebration takes place every Oct. 7. Similar events are common throughout the city’s neighborhoods.

Photo by Mar García

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