Tanzania, Arusha
Ask Before You Take the Picture
Maasai women on souvenir markets, shared profits, and the one thing tourists still get wrong: taking a photograph without asking first.
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The Campsite That Outgrew the Farm
When the farm stopped paying its way, she started a small campsite instead — and it's doing better than the farm ever did. Now she wonders whether farming, her husband's life's work, will be the thing they eventually give up.
Read more →Vietnam, Sapa
The Women Who Hold Sapa Together
We women carry a lot at once, she says: being a good wife, support the family's income, keeping up traditions, values, and family life, which makes women and men equal.
Read more →Tanzania, Arusha
A Contact Fee and a Photograph
A traditional healer on tourists cured of headaches, a government campaign against big families, and why having a son still matters most.
Read more →Vietnam, Sa Pa
Too Cute to Stay in School
An elder on hill-tribe girls who leave school at six to sell souvenirs, and customs that fade a little more with every busload of tourists.
Read more →Tanzania, Lushoto
Ten Pots for the Price of One Fee
A potter on a contact fee that pays more in a few minutes than a full day at the market, and daughters spending more time selling than in school.
Read more →The Netherlands, Achterhoek
A Bus That Comes When You Call
New neighbours from the west, a busier card club, a nursing home that keeps growing — she's glad of most of it. What she'd really like is for the dial-a-bus they cancelled years ago to come back.
Read more →Tanzania, Lushoto
Three Days of School, Four of Selling
A teenager on selling cups instead of attending class, and a teacher's house still waiting on a kitchen and a bathroom.
Read more →Vietnam, Sa Pa
Equal, But Still Doing the Cooking
A local woman on unwritten equality between men and women, new cultural shows staged for tourists, and a town changing faster than anyone can control.
Read more →Tanzania, Lushoto
A Hundred Students, Nine Teachers
Teachers on a half-finished teachers' house, a school that still needs a typewriter, and children who dream in clothes they can't afford.
Read more →Tanzania, Lushoto
The Batiks Nobody Bought
A businesswoman on a batik venture that never took off, and guests who complain about fixed prices they were never going to negotiate.
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