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    PHOTOS: Global heat hacks, from jazzy umbrellas in DRC to ice beans in Singapore

    We asked photographers around the world to make pictures of how the locals cope with this year's record heat. They created some really cool images.
    by Suzette Lohmeyer Aug 19, 2023 5 minutes
    Teenage girl writes her school work under the tree while watching over the tuck shop.

    The world is hot this year. Ridiculously hot. Fry an egg on the sidewalk hot. How are people dealing with the heat?

    We asked the photojournalists of The Everyday Projects to make pictures of heat relief strategies in their countries. Their cameras took aim at the cool floors of a mosque's entryway in Kashmir to swimming, kids splashing in a makeshift pool in a working-class Cairo neighborhood, an icy and affordable treat in Singapore and more. Here are photos of the often centuries-old ways the world is beating the heat.

    Pool party in a working-class neighborhood

    It started as a family project Um Aya and her late husband, Hussein, hoped would bring their children joy and a reprieve from Cairo heat: a plastic swimming pool.

    They set it up on the street outside their home in Manshiyat Naser, El-Deweika, one of the city's working class neighborhoods, where the percentage of people experiencing poverty is high. The pool's striking blue

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