Global News by Topic: Business
Part 1 in a Series: Radio and Development
MBERENGWA, ZIMBABWE – Phineas Moyo, 31, works in a small mine and as a farmer in Mberengwa, a district in southern Zimbabwe. He is married and has two children.
His wife is pregnant with their third child. She is a housewife and also takes care of the family vegetable garden for household consumption.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Nancy Acieng stands outside the door of Pride Microfinance Limited, a bank in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. A fairly educated woman, she works hard to earn money selling fresh food and fruit from a roadside stall.
She says her hard work used to go to waste because her husband routinely stole her ATM card and withdrew the contents of her account. But thanks to the bank’s new security measure that requires customers’ fingerprints to withdraw money, she now has full control over her finances.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA – A tulip garden in Srinagar, Kashmir’s summer capital, has been transforming tourism in the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The garden has extended Kashmir’s tourist season by more than a month,” says Javid Ahmad Shah, caretaker of the tulip garden and district officer for the Jammu and Kashmir Department of Floriculture.
ARGENTINA, KASHMIR, KENYA AND NEPAL – May 1 marks International Workers’ Day, or May Day. It is a public holiday in some countries in honor of the international labor movement and an unofficial holiday in many others. Global Press Institute senior reporters from four news desks use the occasion to highlight traditional and unique jobs in their regions.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA – Arifa Jan, 27, is striving to infuse life into the traditional craft of making namdas, rugs created from felted wool. In the process, she is also realizing her dream of becoming an entrepreneur, a dream that has been traditionally out of reach for women in Kashmir.
Part II: Education and Unemployment in Uganda
KAMPALA, UGANDA – After 17 years of schooling, Danson Baingana, 32, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Makerere University in 2005. He says he was full of enthusiasm and hope that at last he was going to become financially independent.
“I was so happy that I had finally finished school after 17 years of schooling,” he says.