During a tour of National Waste Collections in Harare, Zimbabwe, employee Moleen Sithole teaches students about the different types of paper that the facility collects and recycles into various ...

Homosexuality is not illegal in DRC, but members of the LGBT community are routinely treated like criminals and harassed by members of the community. A local human rights organization is working on ...

BASILI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — The banks of the Ituri River are turned inside out in this isolated community. Men and women scramble across the dirt, searching for the treasure beneath the ...

Ram Magar, 3 (left to right), Arkit Sharma, 4, Rohan Puri, 5, and Krishna Thapa, 3, swim in the Bheri River in Nepal’s Surkhet District. Nearly 264 kilometers (164 miles) long, the river is one of the ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — In 2015, Lorraine Mutasa’s doctors told her she needed to start renal dialysis immediately. Two years later, her condition had deteriorated, and doctors told her to increase her ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE – Diana Samkange strokes a few metal tines attached to a small wooden board decorated with metal bottle caps. Each movement of her fingers creates a different sound. Samkange, 29, ...

NAIROBI, KENYA — First, J. A. was a refugee from Somalia, a country ravaged with ongoing violence. Then, he became a refugee from the Somali refugee community in Kenya. Seventeen years as a Somali ...

When two young men in Carrefour, Haiti saw the damage done by plastic garbage in their town, they decided to do something about it. Now, their factory turns plastic bags and other plastic waste into ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Miriam Makoromu, 17, wakes up before dawn every weekday. She takes a shower and puts her books and pencils in her backpack. Then, she straps on her shoes for the long walk to school ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Actor Apollo Asiimwe, popularly known as the Kung Fu Gangster for his onscreen martial arts, rehearses a scene for his upcoming action film, “Kampala Afuba,” on a studio lot in ...

KIRUMBA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — It’s a short hike to get to Shadrak Paluku Lawindo’s herbal practice, which sits on a slope about 400 meters (1,312 feet) from a road. Inside, amid bouquets of ...

PANCHKHAL, NEPAL — Ajit Mijar was 18 years old when he married his sweetheart, 17-year-old Kalpana Parajuli. Mijar was from the Sarki caste, which is in the lower tier of Nepal’s caste system. But ...