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  • Five-day-old twins lie on a bed in a maternity ward at the La Polylcinic in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Five-day-old twins lie on a bed in a maternity ward at the La Polylcinic in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Two zebras resting heads on each other's back, Masai Mara, Kenya
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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 />
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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 group on the third day of the event. After one day
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  • Two giraffes standing in savannah, Masai Mara, Kenya
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  • Two girls hike up a paved path to the fortress of Forte Real de Sao Filipe in Cidade Velha, Cape Verde on Sunday December 26, 2010. The fortress was built by the Portuguese in 1585.
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  • Souga Doupoaka, 12, sits in class at the Youga primary school in the town of Youga, approximately 205 km southeast of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday April 28, 2009. Souga had never gone to school until two years ago, when members of her family started working at the Youga gold mine -  the salaries they receive allows them to pay for Souga's school fees.
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  • A staff member from a local bank counts money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A girl carries two buckets of water she just filled from a UNICEF-sponsored pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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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 man counts money he's just received from a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • Project staff hold a beneficiary card during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A child receives two drops of polio vaccine during the second round of vaccination in Djambala Village, Republic of Congo on Wednesday December 8, 2010.
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  • Two girls pose for a portrait after being vaccinated against meningitis at a MSF vaccination site in the village of Soura Aladay near Maradi, Niger on Friday April 17, 2009.
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  • Two elderly men and a woman walk through the Necropolis Cristobal Colon cemetery in Havana, Cuba on Saturday June 28, 2008.
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  • Two boys in the village of Podio, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday March 2, 2012.
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  • A girl carries two buckets of water she just filled from a UNICEF-sponsored pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • A girl carries two buckets of water she just filled from a UNICEF-sponsored pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • A girl carries two empty plastic jerricans as she heads to buy water in the Clara town slum in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Thursday April 5, 2012.
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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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  • 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 man counts money he's just received from a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • Money is handed out to beneficiaries during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distrubution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A woman receives money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A staff from a local bank holds a handfull of money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
    LBR12.0403.NUT0110.JPG
  • A staff member from a local bank counts money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, a mother of six, waits to receive money from a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • Two soldiers ride a motorcycle in N'Djamena, Chad on Tuesday June 8, 2010.
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  • Mesh filters use to prevent guinea worm lay on the ground while two boys drive the donkey-pulled cart they use to carry large barrels of water 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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  • Two teenage girls walk by a wall painting saying, in Spanish : Imperialists sirs, you will never get Cuba, in Baracoa, Cuba on Thursday July 10, 2008.
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  • Two boys ride a bicycle outside a classroom in session at the Ying Anglican Primary School in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007.
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  • Two men sit on the steps of the local market in the town of Valle de Angeles, Honduras on Friday April 26, 2013.
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  • Two girls hold hands while they carry a bucket in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school. Standing in the doorway is Lucie, 15, who also works at the brothel.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school.
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  • Two girls go past a park fountain as they walk back from school in the town of Valle de Angeles, Honduras on Friday April 26, 2013.
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  • A boy holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A boy holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A boy holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school.
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  • A man and two boys lead cattle along a dirt road in El Carbon, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • A girl holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A girl holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A boy holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A girl holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A girl holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • Two girls sit together as they eat their lunch at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • Two girls draw water from a well in the village of Popoko, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire, on Sunday March 4, 2012.
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  • Two girls sort pieces of charcoal at a wood charcoal production site on the outskirts of San Pedro, Bas-Sassandra region, Côte d'Ivoire on Sunday March 4, 2012. Men, women and children - who don't go to school - work here seven days a week.
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  • Farmer Safietou Goudiaby shakes rice after pounding it to separate the shell from the grain outside her home in the village of Kagnarou, Senegal on Friday May 28, 2010. She says the process takes about two hours.
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  • Mamie Sesay, 35, lies in bed with her newborn child as she recovers from surgery that saved her life at the Pujehun Government hospital in Pujehun, Sierra Leone on Friday March 19, 2010. After Mamie had given birth at a health center located 12 miles away, the nurse in charge struggled for two hours to extract the woman's placenta, that had remained blocked. She then called an ambulance that took six hours to get Mamie back to the hospital where she finally got treated. Medical staff said saving her was a miracle - she had been bleeding for 8 hours. This was Mamie's 10th pregnancy, four of which resulted in the death of the child. Her first child is 18 years old...
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  • Amelie Adoko, 42, two of a friend's children while sitting in a basic shelter made of palm leaves near the village of Kpoto, Benin on Wednesday October 27, 2010. Most of the village was destroyed by floods that have hit the country over the past few weeks, forcing its 1500 to flee. They now live in a makeshift camp located about 500 meters from the village. Amelie looks after a friend's children while she's gone to the market.
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  • Jeanne Kahindo, 35, stands in front of her home with her children and the  12 displaced people she shelters in Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday December 14, 2008. All of them come from Kibumba, 40km north of Goma, and have been living with Kahindo for two months. "The people were suffering, under the rain, that's why I offered them to come in", she says. She explains that when someone finds something to eat they bring it back to share it with others. Is it estimated that only 30% of the displaced people in Eastern DRC have found refuge in organized IDP camps. The rest are living in schools, churches, or with host families...
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  • Two boys stand by the edge of the forest in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
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  • Two boys stand by the edge of the forest 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 in their home in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. From left to right Henri Joel Djaha Kouakou, 11, Viviane M'Bra Affoue, 32, Alice Bienvenue Djaha Aya, 7, Barthelemy Djaha N'Gueran, 44 and Solange Djaha Ahou, 8. Both parents and the two youngest children are HIV-positive.
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  • Two young girls in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Two boys sit on a bench in a rural area near Kpong, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • A girl holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A girl holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A girl holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A girl holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A boy holds two US quarters at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • Two girls sort pieces of charcoal at a wood charcoal production site on the outskirts of San Pedro, Bas-Sassandra region, Côte d'Ivoire on Sunday March 4, 2012. Men, women and children - who don't go to school - work here seven days a week.
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  • Two girls sort pieces of charcoal at a wood charcoal production site on the outskirts of San Pedro, Bas-Sassandra region, Côte d'Ivoire on Sunday March 4, 2012. Men, women and children - who don't go to school - work here seven days a week.
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  • Two girls sort pieces of charcoal at a wood charcoal production site on the outskirts of San Pedro, Bas-Sassandra region, Côte d'Ivoire on Sunday March 4, 2012. Men, women and children - who don't go to school - work here seven days a week.
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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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  • Kobenda Walemba, his wife Emerance Masca, and their two children stand in an empty room of the small house they rent for $10 a month in Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday December 15, 2008. The couple has been in Goma for three weeks, which they reached after walking for 9 hours after violence broke out in Kiwanja, where they lived. "We saw that if we went to stay in the camp, we would get diarrhea, we would get sick, because of all the people who stay there," explains Walemba. "We had a little bit of money so we found this house. We don't sleep well, we have no food. To find water to drink is a problem. I hope our children can have a good life."
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  • Liberian national Nina Jallah sits with her two children in the room where they live in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday July 16, 2009. Nina says she's not following the Charles Taylor trial and wishes people could just move on.
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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 in their home in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. From left to right Henri Joel Djaha Kouakou, 11, Viviane M'Bra Affoue, 32, Alice Bienvenue Djaha Aya, 7, Barthelemy Djaha N'Gueran, 44 and Solange Djaha Ahou, 8. Both parents and the two youngest children 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. From left to right Henri Joel Djaha Kouakou, 11, Viviane M'Bra Affoue, 32, Alice Bienvenue Djaha Aya, 7, Barthelemy Djaha N'Gueran, 44 and Solange Djaha Ahou, 8. Both parents and the two youngest children are HIV-positive.
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  • Community Health Nurse Isatu Djalloh carries two-year-old Blackie on her lap as he's transported aboard an emergency speedboat from the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, to the district hospital in Bonthe, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010. Suffering from severe dehydration, the boy needed to be referred to the district hospital.
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  • Two-year-old Balckie sits on the lap of his mother Marie Tabeh while he is being examined by Community Health Nurse Isatu Djalloh at the Yoni PHU in the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010.
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  • Health workers try to find a suitable vein to inject an IV on two-year-old Blackie at the Bonthe district hospital in Bonthe, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010. After medical staff struggled for over 30 minutes and gave the child ORS, an IV was successfully injected, and Blackie started to stabilize.
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  • Two-year-old Guideon Nortey (9.5 kg) sits in a scale while being weighted at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Jessica Dowonah holds her two-year-old son Guideon Nortey (9.5 kg) while they wait to meet with a nurse at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Jessica Dowonah (right) holds her two-year-old son Guideon Nortey (9.5 kg) while they wait to meet with a nurse at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Community Health Nurse Isatu Djalloh looks over two-year-old Blackie as he slowly recovers at the Bonthe district hospital in Bonthe, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010. After medical staff struggled for over 30 minutes and gave the child ORS, an IV was successfully injected, and Blackie started to stabilize. At left is Samuel Coker from the Environmental justice foundation, an NGO the operates an emergency boat transport service.
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  • A man tries to force Marie Tabeh, the mother of two-year-old Blackie, to get aboard the emergency speedboat that will carry her child to the district hospital from the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010. Suffering from severe dehydration, the boy needed to be referred to the district hospital. Marie refused to follow her child without the approval of her husband; medical staff had to leave the mother behind to save the child's life.
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  • Marie Tabeh wipes a tear as she stands next to the bed where her two-year-old son Blackie lies suffering from severe dehydration at the Yoni PHU in the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010.
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  • Community Health Nurse Isatu Djalloh reads a thermometer to check the body temperature of two-year-old Blackie at the PHU in the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010. Suffering from severe dehydration, the boy needed to be referred to the district hospital.
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  • Community Health Nurse Isatu Djalloh checks the body temperature of two-year-old Blackie at the PHU in the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010. Suffering from severe dehydration, the boy needed to be referred to the district hospital.
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  • Marie Tabeh sits with her two-year-old son Blackie, who suffers from severe dehydration, as she waits to see the nurse at the Yoni PHU in the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010.
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  • Marie Tabeh sits with her two-year-old son Blackie, who suffers from severe dehydration, as she waits to see the nurse at the Yoni PHU in the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010.
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  • Elizabeth Farma, 16, carries her two-month-old son Emmanuel on her back near the Bonthe district hospital in Bonthe, Sierra Leone on Wednesday April 21, 2010. Elizabeth still attends high school, and leave the child with her grandmother while she is in class.
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  • Elizabeth Farma, 16, holds her two-month-old son Emmanuel near the Bonthe district hospital in Bonthe, Sierra Leone on Wednesday April 21, 2010. Elizabeth still attends high school, and leave the child with her grandmother while she is in class.
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  • Jessica Dowonah holds her two-year-old son Guideon Nortey (9.5 kg) while they wait to meet with a nurse at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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