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Guinea Bissau

260 images Created 31 Jul 2006

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  • Adema Balde washes near her family's rice fields in the village of Dembel Jumpora located in the West African country of Guinea Bissua.
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  • Boys play soccer underneath an enormous Bontang tree. Though the Fulani are a Muslim tribe, they also believe that this tree has a spirit. This mixture of animist beliefs and Islamic law creates a society which has a great respect for the land around them,  the supernatural world and the laws of God.
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  • Dembel Jumpora-Dinner-Children eat the staple diet of rice from a communal bowl.  During the end of the dry season, there is little to eat and many villagers will have only one meal of rice each day.
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  • Dembel Jumpora-Washing-Alio Balde scrubs his body in front of the touffe.
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  • Dansar, Musa and Briama Balde play in the touffe, a place where bricks for the huts were originally made which had filled up with water. The end of the rainy season is the richest time of year when time to escape the daily chores is more readily available.
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  • Khady Balde wakes up and tries to get warmed by the sun on a cold early January morning.
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  • Halima holds her first, newborn baby inside her mud hut in Guinea Bissau, West Africa. Women do not name their babies for ten days because the infant mortality rates are so high in this country. Guinea Bissau is ranked as the fifth poorest country in the world.
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  • Alio Balde mimics his older brother and makes a fake cigarette out of grass and paper. Increasingly, the boys are moving to the capital of Bissau and abandoning the duties of the village life. Guinea Bissau is ranked as one of the poorest nations in the world and has just come out of a civil war but still village life has remained mostly untouched from most modern influences
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  • Transplanting rice is a grueling task in the small village of Dembel Jumpora in Guinea Bissau, West Africa. Girls begin at the age of 7 to work the fields with hand hoes because there are no tractors or machinery in this remote village. They spend long days with their backs bent ploughing and often find leeches clinging to their feet while working in the harsh sun.
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  • Halima holds her first, newborn baby inside her mud hut in Guinea Bissau, West Africa. Women do not name their babies for ten days because the infant mortality rates are so high in this country. Guinea Bissau is ranked as the fifth poorest country in the world.
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  • Fama holds the dull knife used to perform the circumcision and this time she had alcohol to clean the wound. Normally it is unaffordable and girls pass through the age-old rite without it. Those who do not cry are considered more respectable prospects for a future husband who will sometimes pay a dowry to claim them before they are teenagers.
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  • Khady rests in the shade as her brother takes the doneky to the market in the village of Dembel Jumpora, Guinea Bissau, West Africa.
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  • Women come back from working at sunset. Transplanting rice is a grueling task in the small village of Dembel Jumpora in Guinea Bissau, West Africa. Girls begin at the age of 7 to work the fields with hand hoes because there are no tractors or machinery in this remote village. They spend long days with their backs bent ploughing and often find leeches clinging to their feet while working in the harsh sun.
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  • Alio holds a scrap of mirror inside a mud hut in the remote village of DEmbel Jumpora, Guinea Bissau, West Africa. The village has no running water, electricity or even the basic medial facilities and having this mirror was a luxury.
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