Zimbabwe

The ZCC Police Band kicked off the first Zimbabwe Peace Festival, in Harare on July 27. The event was created to pray for political tolerance and peace in the run-up to the July 30 general elections. Previous elections in Zimbabwe have been marred by... more

Zimbabwe

Kindergarten students play tug of war during Tshaka Pre-School’s annual sports day, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. They took part in various activities throughout the day, including a sack race and a relay race, with prizes of certificates and T-shirts giv... more

Guatemala

Local painter Julio Cotuc paints children’s games on the playground of a primary school in Aldea Chaquijyá, a village in Sololá, Guatemala. The school’s teachers arranged for the games to be painted in order to help the students have fun during... more

Uganda

Joanita Sulayiman (front left) and other local women wash discarded polyethylene bags in a drainage ditch in Uganda’s Kampala district. The women sell the washed bags to local manufacturers for recycling.... more

Nepal

Ayesha Rana takes a picture with her phone of the “mehendi,” or henna, being applied to her hand by Santosh Kumar on New Road in Kathmandu, Nepal. Mehendi artists such as Kumar, who charge 100 Nepalese rupees (90 cents) for a simple design, are a... more

Mexico

Every morning, Jesús Rodríguez, 60, shovels fresh, crushed ice onto a display stand for raw fish and seafood at his family’s shop in the Mercado Portales, a market in Mexico City. Rodríguez, who has worked at the fish shop for 50 years, says he ... more