During the harvest of soybeans, the women in Zambia are very busy. After the chores in the morning, they go to the school’s open field to thresh. One strike after another, they beat on the crop with heavy bamboo rods. They neglect the blazing sun and continue to work till they are sweating all over. When the sun is setting, they go home together as a group because it is hard to find one’s way after it gets dark.
在收割黃豆的季節，婦女們十分忙碌，早上料理了家務，便到學校空地打穀，把黃豆脫粒，他們是真正的「打」穀，用長棍，一下一下打在莊稼上；不理日頭當空，包上頭巾，繼續工作；太陽快下山，便聯群結隊回家，因為天黑路難走。
- Violin (photographs taken in Ndola, Zambia, 2012)
While most of the world have adopted the usage of modern threshing machines, the Zambian women can only afford to use their hands and the most basic tools even to this day.
Small fragments of soybeans fill the air at the threshing field.
The small children are left by the shade while the women work under the beating sun.
After hours of toilsome work, the women journeys home where more chores await them in the evening.