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Couple of kids playing near a newly built well and water pump.� In the background you can see the rooves of the houses in their village. |
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These are the children of some returnees. One of the projects I'm working on helps to reintegrate the children into the Guinea school system, provides them with basic school supplies and helps their parents engage in an income generating activity, that will help provide for the family and ultimately stop the parents from pulling the kids out of school to work the land. |
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Hard at work building a well for a rural community that needs access to water. |
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A couple of folks hanging out in the shade of tree. |
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A women's group getting water to tend the crops that they are growing in the background. |
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A Guinean woman giving it loads in a dance at a village celebration. Go girl! |
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A group of women happy to have had folks come to work on a well for them. |
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This is what is known as an improved stove. It's an environmental friendly stove that can be made from local materials. It saves on fuel because of it's design and reduces the need for women to go wandering off in search of wood. |
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Every wondered how you would get out if you fell down one of these wells?� Not easily I image, but hope to never find out |
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Just a regular road with some houses along the side.� This is a typical sight in Guinea |
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This is Hadiatou Diallo, she is a single mother who fled the Cote d'Ivoire to return to Guinea.� Suffering from leprosy, she is unable to work in the fields to feed her two children (in the background).� To sustain her family Mme Diallo has begun to sell her embroidery.� Here she is proudly displacing some of her handiwork. |
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No ordinary bus let me tell you.� Firstly because you wouldn't find a nice bus like this in Guinea.� In fact you wouldn't normally find a bus in Guinea at all.� This one however is bringing women, children and families who are fleeing the Cote d'Ivoire.� These folks fall into the little know category of returnees.� This means that they or their parents were born in Guinea but moved to Cote d'Ivoire many years ago to find a better life, now as they flee back into Guinea they are not afforded the protection associated with refugee status, so basically there isn't any assistance available for them. They arrive in their communities of origin ill-equipped to start a new life and end up living in conditions of extreme poverty . |
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More kids: they never smile unless you really plead with them. |
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This is a very orderly looking market, they generally aren't that neat and tidy, if you can just imagine this but not so tidy and with lots of people shouting and milling around then you get the idea of an average village market. |
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Some women working away in one of the group managed fields. Check out the fencing in the background - this is very impressive as it is rare to see fencing so well made and intact. |
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Some fine houses built of brick and concrete insead of mud and wattle. |
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A pretty tree, don't you think? |
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