WOMEN’S CRY

An extraordinary photographic journey from the world of women, who for many seem invisible, interwoven with the words of Pope Francis in the encyclical Fratelli Tutti.

Art Direction:
LIA & MARIANNA BELTRAMI

Graphics:
MAURO RADICI

Photos:
NEŞE ARI
SEBASTIANO ROSSITTO
ASAF UD DAULA
VASSILIS IKOUTAS
GIUSEPPE CARIDI
CATERINA BORGATO
SILVIA TENENTI

01 Women’s Cry - Listening to transform lives

02 - <b>Let us continue to advance along the paths of hope to open us up to grand ideals that make life more beautiful and worthy.(FT)</b><em><br>A group of women walk a long distance in search of fresh drinking water.

02 Let us continue to advance along the paths of hope to open us up to grand ideals that make life more beautiful and worthy.(FT)

03 - <b>To tend to those in need takes strength and tenderness, effort and generosity (FT).</b><em><br>An old woman from the village of Archangelos on the island of Rhodes. She watches people; she watches those who pass by.

03 To tend to those in need takes strength and tenderness, effort and generosity (FT).

04 - <b>The earth is lent to each generation, to be handed on to the generation that follows (FT). </b><em><br>Grandmother, mother, aunt, granddaughter: indigenous women sail to the heart of the Amazon to cultivate cassava

04- The earth is lent to each generation, to be handed on to the generation that follows (FT).

05 - <b>Education serves these by making it possible for each human being to shape his or her own future (FT).</b><em><br>Today, kindergarten pupils are learning vowels

05 - Education serves these by making it possible for each human being to shape his or her own future (FT).

06 - <b>I ask God to prepare our hearts to encounter our brothers and sisters, so that we may overcome our differences rooted in political thinking, language, culture and religion (FT).<br></b><em>A moment of devotion in a temple in Bangladesh.<7em>

06 - I ask God to prepare our hearts to encounter our brothers and sisters, so that we may overcome our differences rooted in political thinking, language, culture and religion (FT).

07 - <b>To value the richness and beauty of those seeds of common life that need to be sought out and cultivated (FT).</b><br><em> A woman meticulously dries up thin slices of potatoes on a cloth, in preparation for making crispy potato chips.</em>

07 - To value the richness and beauty of those seeds of common life that need to be sought out and cultivated (FT).

08 - <b>Life exists when there is bonding, communion, fraternity (FT).</b></br><em>Uprooted from the ancestral forest of the Batwa tribe, Zanika, age twenty, carries on motherhood raising Manirumva in extreme poverty.

08 - Life exists when there is bonding, communion, fraternity (FT).

09 - <b>Service in great part means caring for vulnerability, for the vulnerable members of our families, our society, our people (FT).</b></br><em>Eastern Anatolia. The cradle is crucial for the first six months of life.

09 - Service in great part means caring for vulnerability, for the vulnerable members of our families, our society, our people (FT).

10 - <b>It is unacceptable that some have fewer rights by virtue of being women (FT).</b></br><em>Jaisalmer, India. Women are used to balancing acts from their very childhood.

10 - It is unacceptable that some have fewer rights by virtue of being women (FT).

11 - <b>Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths of dialogue and not by constructing new walls! (FT).</b></br><em>Traditional pottery making is a technique that has been used for centuries. It involves the process of kneading, shaping, and firing clay.

11 - Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths of dialogue and not by constructing new walls! (FT).

12 - <b>Let’s put aside all differences and, in the face of suffering, draw near others with no questions asked (FT).</b></br><em>Ashura, the tenth day of the month of Muharram.

12 - Let’s put aside all differences and, in the face of suffering, draw near others with no questions asked (FT).

13 - <b>A community can be rebuilt by men and women who identify with the vulnerability of others (FT).</b></br><em>In Asia, herding involves the whole family.

13 - A community can be rebuilt by men and women who identify with the vulnerability of others (FT).

14 - <b>Doubly poor are those women who endure situations of exclusion, mistreatment and violence, since they are frequently less able to defend their rights (FT).</b></br><em>In northern Ethiopia, women face hours, sometimes days, on the road, to bring what they have to sell.

14 - Doubly poor are those women who endure situations of exclusion, mistreatment and violence, since they are frequently less able to defend their rights (FT).

15 - <b>Millions of people today – children, women and men of all ages – are deprived of freedom and forced to live in conditions akin to slavery (FT).</b></br><em>A gypsy woman tries to sell blankets around her city.

15 - Millions of people today – children, women and men of all ages – are deprived of freedom and forced to live in conditions akin to slavery (FT).

16 - <b>Indigenous peoples are not opposed to progress, yet theirs is a different notion of progress (FT).</b></br><em>Portrait of a Dâw family, in the Alto Rio Negro area.

16 - Indigenous peoples are not opposed to progress, yet theirs is a different notion of progress (FT).

17 - <b>The first victim of every war is the human family’s innate vocation to fraternity (FT).</b></br><em>The future of Ukraine is being played out on platform 5 of Lviv station.

17 - <b>The first victim of every war is the human family’s innate vocation to fraternity (FT).</b></br><em>The future of Ukraine is being played out on platform 5 of Lviv station.

18 - <b>Let us dream as a single human family, each of us bringing the richness of his or her beliefs and convictions, each of us with his or her own voice, brothers and sisters all (FT).</b></br><em>Releasing wish lanterns symbolizes the release of one’s wishes and hopes.

18 - Let us dream as a single human family, each of us bringing the richness of his or her beliefs and convictions, each of us with his or her own voice, brothers and sisters all (FT).

19 - <b>Creating in countries of origin the conditions needed for a dignified life (FT). </b></br><em>Chad. The guide who accompanies tourists in the Sahara has never wanted to leave her birthplace.

19 - Creating in countries of origin the conditions needed for a dignified life (FT).

20 - <b>Tenderness is a movement that starts from our heart and reaches the eyes, the ears, and the hands (FT).</b></br><em>In the Tigray region, a place of continuous massacres, people flee amid silence.

20 - Tenderness is a movement that starts from our heart and reaches the eyes, the ears, and the hands (FT).

21 - <b>The grandeur of his love, which sought to embrace everyone (FT).</b></br><em>A mother and daughterin front of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

21 - The grandeur of his love, which sought to embrace everyone (FT).

22 - <b>What reigns is a globalized indifference: thinking that we are all-powerful, while failing to realize that we are all in the same boat (FT).</b></br><em>Mediterranean Sea. A young woman is rescued on an Italian Coast Guard Series 300 cutter.

22 - What reigns is a globalized indifference: thinking that we are all-powerful, while failing to realize that we are all in the same boat (FT).

23 - <b>How much our human family needs to learn to live together in harmony and peace (FT).</b></br><em>The Sisters run to celebrate Sunday Mass with the village.

23 - How much our human family needs to learn to live together in harmony and peace (FT).

24 - <b>It is truly noble to initiate processes whose fruits will be reaped by others (FT).</b></br><em>For these women, rice processing is an art form.

24 - It is truly noble to initiate processes whose fruits will be reaped by others (FT).

25 - <b>Each of us can learn something from others. This also means finding ways to include those on the peripheries of life. For they have another way of looking at things, they see aspects of reality that are invisible to the centres of power (FT).</b></br><em>In the Brazilian favela of Marcos Moura, Paraíba, some girls prepare a show of art and integral ecology.

25 - Each of us can learn something from others. This also means finding ways to include those on the peripheries of life. For they have another way of looking at things, they see aspects of reality that are invisible to the centres of power (FT).

26 - <b>Promoting an economy that favours productive diversity and business creativity (FT).</b></br><em>Fishing nets. In Vietnam, women can be seen working in the sea and on land. Here, they are repairing old fishing nets, making them ready for use again.

26 - Promoting an economy that favours productive diversity and business creativity (FT).