Almazbek Midinov, 27, sitting in the kitchen with his family (wife, daughter and brother) in Sary-Mogol. He started working as a mountain guide at CBT Sary-Mogol in 2013. In 2017, he also became an English teacher and built a guest house in the area. He has been granted credit twice, most recently in February 2020, and completed the construction of his guesthouse in August 2020. Almazbek says it has been a difficult year with little work and financial resources. He still has to pay back his bank loan every month.

Credit: Danil Usmanov (Kyrgyzstan)

To learn more about Danil Usmanov and his work, check out our French or German website, we presented his work on our series “Central Asia through the lens of …”.

These pictures are part of a UNDP Eurasia project “Surviving a pandemic: Visual impacts of Covid-19” realised in 2020.

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