Martin Karimi

Mar 6, 2024 | allafrica.com | María Gallar |Martin Karimi |Elizabeth Bryant |Gabriela Vivacqua

From Bolivia to Zambia, the World Food Programme is giving women the tools to cope with weather extremes that threaten livelihoodsTheir faces smeared with a traditional mussiro mask to enhance their skin, the women stoop to pluck shellfish from the mudflats of Ibo Island, off northern Mozambique. Dropped into plastic buckets, the dripping harvest will later be cooked and processed for sale, buttressing their incomes - and their independence.