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ANGULANA, SRI LANKA – Little children play on the beach in Angulana, a fishing village in Sri Lanka’s Colombo district. The smell of fish hangs in the air, and the ocean sends a breeze across the shore.
Jayasiri Peiris, 39, has carried on his family tradition of being a fisherman. But he says it’s tough to raise a family on a fisherman’s wage.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Tourist vehicles marked by green registration plates stop at Basantapur, one of the major tourist attractions in central Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, and deposit hordes of tourists from various countries. As the tourists stroll around the area, their guides inform them about the century-old palace that once used to be the seat of the ancient monarchy.
SELIBE-PHIKWE, BOTSWANA – Segwabe Morathi, a retired religious minister, works as a farmer in a village on the outskirts of Selibe-Phikwe, a small mining town in eastern Botswana. He says farming is not easy in Botswana, where a semiarid desert means that the weather is unpredictable. A changing climate has only made rain more unreliable, he says.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR – Bandook Khar Mohalla, a locality whose name means gunsmith, is a shadow of its former self. Located in the heart of Srinagar, Kashmir’s summer capital, the community was once famous for its traditional weaponry. In 1925, there were more than 25 manufacturing units here each producing double- and single-barreled guns famous for their exquisite craftsmanship and walnut-wood butts. Now, just two small, family-run factories remain.
ZACATECAS, MEXICO – For the past three years, Cony Solís, 26, an industrial engineer, has been in charge of industrial security in the “Peñasquito” mine in Mazapil, a municipality of Zacatecas, a state in north-central Mexico with a long mining tradition. Solís is the only woman in an administrative position here working under Goldcorp, a Canadian gold producer operating Peñasquito, where some 13 million ounces of gold, silver and zinc lay hidden under an enormous desert. The rest of the women work down in the mines.
BAHUNIPATI, NORTHEASTERN NEPAL – A cluster of huts along the Indrawati River, one of the tributaries of Nepal's biggest river, the Saptakoshi, are inhabited by a tribal community of fishermen called the Majhis. Once abundant with fish and the Majhis’ only source of livelihood, the river now has nothing to offer to them, the fishermen say.
PAMPORE, KASHMIR – Humaira Akther and her family have been in the saffron business for generations. Their home and farm in Pampore sit alongside the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, just 9 miles from the city center.