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LOBE, CAMEROON – Edmond Motule, 40, is the president and chief of the Oroko community in Lobe, an estate in southwestern Cameroon. He founded the Oroko Festival of Arts and Culture, which will take place here for the fourth year on Dec. 26.
Motule says the festival aims to bring together the 10 tribes of the Oroko community from hundreds of villages scattered across the region.
BHIM DUTTA, NEPAL – For 360 days of the year, Radhika Bhatta, 43, says she doesn’t have any time for herself. A housewife in Bhim dutta, a municipality in Nepal’s Far-Western region, Bhatta spends nearly every day doing household chores like most women in this rural area.
She says she works hard from dawn until dusk. Women here are responsible for cooking, cleaning, collecting firewood, performing farm chores, rearing livestock, and caring for their children, husbands and elders.
DHAKA, BANGLADESH – Husna Begum, 32, an energetic woman with a fair complexion and dark black hair, works as house help in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. But she says she dreams of returning to her home in Mymensingh, a city in northern Bangladesh, to celebrate Eid, a sacred Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. She says she saves every single penny she earns to make this dream come true.