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  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, feeds her daughter Jusu, 2, at home in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Jenneh has been receiving 2050 Liberian dollars (approx. 28 USD) per month since April 2010 through a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme. She says the money has allowed her to renovate the roof of her home, and send all her children to school. Before joining the programme only two of her children attended school.
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  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, feeds her daughter Jusu, 2, at home in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Jenneh has been receiving 2050 Liberian dollars (approx. 28 USD) per month since April 2010 through a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme. She says the money has allowed her to renovate the roof of her home, and send all her children to school. Before joining the programme only two of her children attended school.
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  • A woman sets bowls, pots and dishes on an elevated dish rack, used to dry dishes instead laying them directly on the ground, outside her home in the village of Kawejah, Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia on Friday April 6, 2012. As part of the UNICEF-sponsored CLTS (community-led total sanitation) programme, such racks are built by families to help improve hygiene conditions and prevent the spread of diseases.
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  • Cafeteria operating from a home's window in Remedios, Cuba on Wednesday August 6, 2008.
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  • An elderly woman looks through the window of her home in Baracoa, Cuba on Monday July 14, 2008.
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  • A boy comes out of a home holding a plastic teapot typically used for going to the bathroom and hand washing in the village of Kawejah, Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia on Friday April 6, 2012.
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  • A young girl stands in the doorway of her home in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • A boy looks down from the verandah of his home in Santiago, Cuba on Wednesday July 9, 2008.
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  • A girl sits in the window of her home in Trinidad, Cuba on Saturday July 5, 2008.
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  • A girl sits outside her home in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Rocking chairs lined up on the sidewalk outside a home in Remedios, Cuba Thursday July 17, 2008.
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  • HIV/AIDS counselor Kevin Kouassi Gallet meets with members of the Djaha family in their home in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. At left is Solange Djaha Ahou, 8, and at right her father Barthelemy Djaha N'Gueran. Both are HIV-positive.
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  • A community volunteer visits a mother and her child at their home with a medical kit. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • A community volunteer visits a mother and her child at their home with a medical kit. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • Regina Ansah, 34, stands in her home in Ghana's capital Accra as she prepares to go vote during presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday December 7, 2008. A mother of 4, Ansah says the abolition of school fees and the introduction of school feeding programmes by the ruling party convinced her to once again vote for them..
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  • A woman stands outside her home in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
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  • Members of the Djaha family outside their home in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. From left to right Henri Joel Djaha Kouakou, 11, Solange Djaha Ahou, 8, Viviane M'Bra Affoue, 32, Alice Bienvenue Djaha Aya, 7 and Barthelemy Djaha N'Gueran, 44. Both parents and the two youngest children are HIV-positive.
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  • Members of the Djaha family outside their home in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. From left to right Henri Joel Djaha Kouakou, 11, Solange Djaha Ahou, 8, Viviane M'Bra Affoue, 32, Alice Bienvenue Djaha Aya, 7 and Barthelemy Djaha N'Gueran, 44. Both parents and the two youngest children are HIV-positive.
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  • Solange Djaha Ahou, 8, sits on the lap of HIV/AIDS counselor Kevin Kouassi Gallet during a home visit in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. At right is Solange's father Barthelemy Djaha N'Gueran. Both are HIV-positive.
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  • Members of the Djaha family in their home in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. Left is Viviane M'Bra Affoue, 32, second from left is Alice Bienvenue Djaha Aya, 7. Both are HIV-positive. Others are friends visiting.
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  • HIV/AIDS counselor Kevin Kouassi Gallet and coworker Joelle Kouakou Oussou meet with members of the Djaha family during a home visit in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Members of the Djaha family in their home in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. Left is Viviane M'Bra Affoue, 32, second from left is Alice Bienvenue Djaha Aya, 7. Both are HIV-positive. Others are friends visiting.
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  • Togolese refugees stand by newly-built homes in a small village along the Togolese border, Eastern Ghana. Thousands of Togolese citizens crossed the border into Ghana after the violence that followed presidential elections in April 2005. Partly because of strong cultural ties between populations on both sides of the border, Togolese refugees were able to enjoy the relative hospitality of their Ghanaian neighbours, and are today scattered in various villages across the border. The UNHCR complains that, since the refugees aren't concentratred in large camps, media attention has been minimal, and that it has been very difficult to attract funding.
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  • Togolese refugees work building a mud-brick house in a small village along the Togolese border, Eastern Ghana. Thousands of Togolese citizens crossed the border into Ghana after the violence that followed presidential elections in April 2005. Partly because of strong cultural ties between populations on both sides of the border, Togolese refugees were able to enjoy the relative hospitality of their Ghanaian neighbours, and are today scattered in various villages across the border. The UNHCR complains that, since the refugees aren't concentratred in large camps, media attention has been minimal, and that it has been very difficult to attract funding.
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  • Thatched hut in field, Ghana, West Africa..
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  • Togolese refugees work building a mud-brick house in a small village along the Togolese border, Eastern Ghana. Thousands of Togolese citizens crossed the border into Ghana after the violence that followed presidential elections in April 2005. Partly because of strong cultural ties between populations on both sides of the border, Togolese refugees were able to enjoy the relative hospitality of their Ghanaian neighbours, and are today scattered in various villages across the border. The UNHCR complains that, since the refugees aren't concentratred in large camps, media attention has been minimal, and that it has been very difficult to attract funding.
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  • Mountain shelter in snowy mountain landscape near Col de Pause, Ariege, Pyrenees, France.
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  • Mountain shelter in snowy mountain landscape near Col de Pause, Ariege, Pyrenees, France.
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  • Firewood piled outside a mountain shelter in snowy mountain landscape near Col de Pause, Ariege, Pyrenees, France.
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  • A girl stands by a mud brick house in the village of Tongo Gandima, near Bertoua, Cameroon, on Tuesday September 15, 2009.
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  • Children stand in a doorway in the village of Lalo, Benin on Tuesday September 18, 2007. The chalk marks above the door indicate that children have been vaccinated.
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  • A girl does her homework in the West Point slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • View of the Refuge de Larreix, near Mount Cagire, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees.
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  • Mountain shelter in snowy mountain landscape near Col de Pause, Ariege, Pyrenees, France.
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  • Mountain shelter in snowy mountain landscape near Col de Pause, Ariege, Pyrenees, France.
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  • Rural farmhouse near Vinales, Cuba on Wednesday August 6, 2008.
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  • House facade on Marti street, Baracoa, Cuba, on Saturday July 12, 2008.
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  • View of small house near Vinales, Cuba.
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  • View of small houses in the valley of Vinales, Cuba.
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  • People walk through the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012.
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  • Rooftops in the village of Saint-Lizier, Pays Couserans, Ariege, Pyrenees, France.
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  • Mariam Alhassan, 11, carries an empty bucket on her head as she prepares to head out to fetch water with other girls after coming home from school in the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007. "I saw some other children go to school," she recalls, "but my father said we had no money for me to go. I cried and he agreed to send me." Before heading to school, Mariam I helps her mother at home by sweeping the floor, cooking, fetching water and firewood.When her father died a few years back, her older brother promised to keep her at school..
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  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, gives water to drink to her daughter Jusu, 2, at home in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Jenneh has been receiving 2050 Liberian dollars (approx. 28 USD) per month since April 2010 through a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme. She says the money has allowed her to renovate the roof of her home, and send all her children to school. Before joining the programme only two of her children attended school.
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  • Lucie, 15, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Lucie left her father's home in northwestern Cote d'Ivoire because she couldn't get along with his third wife. She would prefer working in home cleaning, but has no references and no one will hire her. She says she's had unprotected sex with clients only 3 times, at the client's request. On those occasions, she charged 2000 CFA (4$) instead of the usual 1000. Lucie has never been to school.
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  • Lucie, 15, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Lucie left her father's home in northwestern Cote d'Ivoire because she couldn't get along with his third wife. She would prefer working in home cleaning, but has no references and no one will hire her. She says she's had unprotected sex with clients only 3 times, at the client's request. On those occasions, she charged 2000 CFA (4$) instead of the usual 1000. Lucie has never been to school.
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  • Lucie, 15, lies on a bed in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Lucie left her father's home in northwestern Cote d'Ivoire because she couldn't get along with his third wife. She would prefer working in home cleaning, but has no references and no one will hire her. She says she's had unprotected sex with clients only 3 times, at the client's request. On those occasions, she charged 2000 CFA (4$) instead of the usual 1000. Lucie has never been to school.
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  • Niamassaka Akizou, 40, a mother of eight, sits with her child inside the home where she has found refuge in Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday December 15, 2008. Akizou and her family have been here for two months, after violence forced them to flee their home in Rutshuru, 70km north of Goma.
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  • A girl does laundry at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, carries her son Abdelnassir Haroun, 6 mo., as she walks back home from a meeting at CELIAF in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • A girl balances buckets of water on both ends of a stick as prepares to carry them back home from a UNICEF-sponsored pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • A woman holds her child in a spontaneous settlement where they now live after their home was destroyed by floods in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. Waters have receded in Kpoto, but most of the village was literally flattened by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • Doorway of a severely damaged home in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010.  Waters have receded in Kpoto, but most of the village was literally flattened by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks..
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  • A woman and her children stand in front of the tent where they now live after their home was destroyed by floods in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. Waters have receded in Kpoto, but most of the village was literally flattened by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • Aisha Alhassan, 12 (second from left) attends class at the Nyologu Primary School in the village of Nyologu, northern Ghana, on Wednesday June 6, 2007. "I like to study maths," says Aisha, who helps her parents at home by picking shea nuts, fetching water and washing bowls. "I want to become a nurse, so I can take care of mother if she becomes sick," she adds. Only 4 of 21 students in this class are girls..
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  • Fajima Yakaba, 12, drives her UNICEF-donated bicycle along the road leading to her village as she heads back home after school in Savelugu, Ghana on Tuesday June 5, 2007..
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  • A group of girls carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from a borehole situated 15 minutes away from the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007.
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  • Members of the Harmony Community Centre perform an a capella song at the Buduburam refugee settlement, roughly 20 km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Friday April 13, 2007. The Buduburam refugee settlement is still home over 30,000 Liberians, most of which have mixed feelings about returning to Liberia. The Harmony Community Centre is aimed at helping people with mental and physical disabilities integrate with the community through art, music and theater performances.
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  • Members of the Liberian Dance Troupe (LDT) perform traditional dancing at the Buduburam refugee settlement, roughly 20 km west of Accra, Ghana's capital, on Saturday April 14, 2007. One of the main goals of the LDT is to teach young refugee children, many of which have never seen Liberia, about their country's music, dance and culture. The Buduburam refugee settlement is still home over 30,000 Liberians, most of which have mixed feelings about returning to Liberia.
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  • Member of the band King's Jubilee, Zaroe Amilcar (right), sings during a jamming session with Canadian artist Dave Bidini (left)  at the  Buduburam refugee settlement, roughly 20 km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Friday April 13, 2007. The group, which is composed of five Liberian men living at Buduburam, is currently recording their second album, and already has a growing number of fans back in Liberia. The Buduburam refugee settlement is still home over 30,000 Liberians, most of which have mixed feelings about returning to Liberia..
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, bathes her son Moustapha, 3, at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, bathes her son Ibrahim, 5, at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, bathes her son Ibrahim, 5, at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, sits with her son Abdelnassir Haroun, 6 mo., at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, washes her hands at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Fatime Abdramane, 30, sits at home with her daughter Nafaye, 6 in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Mariam, 14, carries water from a UNICEF-sponsored pump back to her home in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • A boy washes his hands at a pedal-activated hand washing station outside a home latrine in the village of Kawejah, Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia on Friday April 6, 2012. As part of the UNICEF sponsored CLTS programme, communities learn to put in practice good hygiene and sanitation practices.
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  • Fish cooks in a pot at the home of Edith Saysay in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Edith and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • A woman cooks for her family outside the tent where they now live after their home was destroyed by floods in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. Waters have receded in Kpoto, but most of the village was literally flattened by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • Boys tie plastic containers full of water to the back of their bicycles as they prepare to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Women carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Tapha Dieng, 5, near his home in the Medina Gounass neighborhood of Guediawaye, Senegal on  Friday May 1, 2009.  Six weeks ago, Tapha's friend, seven-year-old Aba Dionne, drowned in a puddle concealed under a thick layer of floating garbage. (Olivier Asselin for the New York Times).
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  • Girls walk back home from picking shea nuts to go get ready for school near the village of Ying, Ghana on Wednesday June 6, 2007..
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  • A group of girls carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from a borehole situated 15 minutes away from the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007.
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  • A group of girls carry containers on their head as they head out to fetch water after coming home from school in the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007..
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  • Rafael Yeboah, 13, waits to fill his plastic containers with water from a tap in a poor neighborhood of Accra, Ghana's capital, on Monday Mar 5, 2007. Only when Rafael will have finished transporting the water home will he be able to head to school. Most parts of the city are plagued with intermittent water shortages, and people buy water from the few running taps. They then have to carry the containers to their homes over distances that often reach several hundred meters. Meanwhile, Ghana is preparing to celebrate its 50 years of independence from the UK on March 6th.
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  • Canadian artist Dave Bidini plays a song during a performance by the Liberian Dance Troupe (LDT) at the Buduburam refugee settlement, roughly 20 km west of Accra, Ghana's capital, on Saturday April 14, 2007. One of the main goals of the LDT is to teach young refugee children, many of which have never seen Liberia, about their country's music, dance and culture. The Buduburam refugee settlement is still home over 30,000 Liberians, most of which have mixed feelings about returning to Liberia..
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  • Members of the Liberian Dance Troupe (LDT) perform traditional dancing at the Buduburam refugee settlement, roughly 20 km west of Accra, Ghana's capital, on Saturday April 14, 2007. One of the main goals of the LDT is to teach young refugee children, many of which have never seen Liberia, about their country's music, dance and culture. The Buduburam refugee settlement is still home over 30,000 Liberians, most of which have mixed feelings about returning to Liberia.
    GHA07.0414.BUDUBURAM284.JPG
  • Member of the band King's Jubilee, Zaroe Amilcar, sings during a jamming session with Canadian artist Dave Bidini (unseen)  at the  Buduburam refugee settlement, roughly 20 km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Friday April 13, 2007. The group, which is composed of five Liberian men living at Buduburam, is currently recording their second album, and already has a growing number of fans back in Liberia. The Buduburam refugee settlement is still home over 30,000 Liberians, most of which have mixed feelings about returning to Liberia..
    GHA07.0413.BUDUBURAM112.JPG
  • Members of the Harmony Community Centre perform an a capella song in front of other members at the Buduburam refugee settlement, roughly 20 km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Friday April 13, 2007. The Buduburam refugee settlement is still home over 30,000 Liberians, most of which have mixed feelings about returning to Liberia. The Harmony Community Centre is aimed at helping people with mental and physical disabilities integrate with the community through art, music and theater performances..
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  • A woman helps young men cover themselves with talcum powder as they prepare for wrestling matches during the yearly evala festival in the town of Houde, northern Togo, on Thursday July 12, 2007. The powder, fighters say, makes it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp.<br />
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During the week-long tourney, young men wrestle against peers from their own and other villages. The evala festival is not only a sporting event, but also part of the rites of passage young men from the KabyŽ ethnic group will complete as they become full-grown men. The fighters, called evalo, will wrestle on three consecutive years to show their strength and their worth as they become full members of the community. <br />
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Wrestlers cover themselves with talcum powder to allegedly make it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp. Rubbing hands with dirt is also a popular technique which many believe helps counter the slippery effect of talcum powder. On the eve of the first day of fighting, the father of each evalo will buy a dog for his son to eat. It is believed that the meat of the animal will endow the young man with the strength and courage characteristic to the animal.<br />
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While the wrestling is reserved to young men in their early to mid-twenties, younger boys also take part in unofficial matches as they prepare to become the next evalo. Even though supporters often become infuriated when their fighter is denied the victory they think he deserves, the outcome of the wrestling matches has little importance. Winners celebrate alongside those who are defeated and more than anything else, the evala festival is a social gathering where KabyŽs come to meet each other. Many KabyŽs in the diaspora even come home to attend the event. <br />
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The first day of fighting pits evalos from two halves of a same village against each other. On the next day, fighters from an entire village wrestle against their peers from a neighbor settlement before joining them and facing together a similar gr
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  • Young men covered with talcum powder (used to make it more difficult for opponents to get a firm grasp) wait for wrestling matches to start during the yearly evala festival in the town of Houde, northern Togo, on Thursday July 12, 2007.<br />
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During the week-long tourney, young men wrestle against peers from their own and other villages. The evala festival is not only a sporting event, but also part of the rites of passage young men from the KabyŽ ethnic group will complete as they become full-grown men. The fighters, called evalo, will wrestle on three consecutive years to show their strength and their worth as they become full members of the community. <br />
<br />
Wrestlers cover themselves with talcum powder to allegedly make it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp. Rubbing hands with dirt is also a popular technique which many believe helps counter the slippery effect of talcum powder. On the eve of the first day of fighting, the father of each evalo will buy a dog for his son to eat. It is believed that the meat of the animal will endow the young man with the strength and courage characteristic to the animal.<br />
<br />
While the wrestling is reserved to young men in their early to mid-twenties, younger boys also take part in unofficial matches as they prepare to become the next evalo. Even though supporters often become infuriated when their fighter is denied the victory they think he deserves, the outcome of the wrestling matches has little importance. Winners celebrate alongside those who are defeated and more than anything else, the evala festival is a social gathering where KabyŽs come to meet each other. Many KabyŽs in the diaspora even come home to attend the event. <br />
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The first day of fighting pits evalos from two halves of a same village against each other. On the next day, fighters from an entire village wrestle against their peers from a neighbor settlement before joining them and facing together a similar group on the third day of the event. After one day
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  • A toddler stands in the doorway of her home in Katiola, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday July 13, 2013.
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  • Children listen while a staff member from UNICEF partner organization OIS Afrique speaks about female genital mutilation during a community gathering in the town of Katiola, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday July 13, 2013. Through group workshops and home visits, the organization works with communities and FGM/C practitioners to help put an end to the practice.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, and her son Abdelnassir Haroun, 6 mo., at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, helps her sons Moustapha, 3, and Ibrahim, 5, get dressed after bathing at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, bathes her son Ibrahim, 5, at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, bathes her son Ibrahim, 5, at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, sweeps the courtyard of her home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • A girl does laundry at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, sits with her son Abdelnassir Haroun, 6 mo., at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, sits with her son Abdelnassir Haroun, 6 mo., at home in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, carries her son Abdelnassir Haroun, 6 mo., as she walks back home from a meeting at CELIAF in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • Fatime Abdramane, 30, sits at home with her daughters (from left to right) Zeinaba, 10, Khadija, 8, and Nafaye, 6 in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Fatime Abdramane, 30, sits at home with her daughter Nafaye, 6 in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Fatime Abdramane, 30, walks alongside her daughter Nafaye, 6, as she carries water back home from a UNICEF-sponsored water pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Fatime Abdramane, 30, walks alongside her daughter Nafaye, 6, as she carries water back home from a UNICEF-sponsored water pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Mariam, 14, carries water from a UNICEF-sponsored pump back to her home in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Girls balance buckets of water on both ends of a stick as they prepare to carry them back home from a UNICEF-sponsored pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • A girl balances water buckets on both ends of a stick as she prepares to carry them home from a UNICEF-sponsored, pedal-activated pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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