Amelia Armando Machava inspects a coffin at a coffin manufacturing workshop in downtown Beira on October 10, 2024. In downtown Beira, a dozen young men work under the supervision of 56-year-old Amelia Armando Machava handcrafting coffins from discarded wooden pallets that come into the Mozambique port city on cargo ships. Around 75 percent of Mozambicans live on less than a dollar a day and the southern African nation is ranked one of the poorest in the world on the Human Development Index. The cost of an ordinary funeral for most Mozambicans can reach 200,000 meticals ($3,130) which is unattainable for many. Just a coffin, even the ones Machava's team makes from scrap wood, can cost between 6,000 and 100,000 meticals. (Photo by Zinyange Auntony / AFP) (Photo by ZINYANGE AUNTONY/AFP via Getty Images)