Silver 2019 / People / Life Style

Saving The Cows

  • Photographer
    Hesham Alhumaid
  • Prizes
    Silver in People/Life Style

The Mandari are a small ethnic group of South Sudan and one of the Nilotic peoples. It's hard to overstate the importance of cattle to the Mundari people, They Live to protect the cows, Meanwhile dung is piled high into heaps for burning to protect the cows from the mosquito & other insects, the fine peach-colored ash used as another form of antiseptic and sunscreen by the herdsmen, shielding them from the 115-degree heat. The Mundari massaging their animals twice a day. The ash from dung fires, as fine as talcum powder, is rubbed into the cattle's skin and used as bedding, while ornamental ta