Wednesday, June 24, 2009

TANZANIA

Masai Children

Three Masai girls drink hot goat's milks for breakfast in their mud hut they live in with their parents in Makuyu, Tanzania on the 17th June, 2009. Only two of these girl attend school - the other is expected to attend to the families herd of goats and, at the age of nine, has already been betrothed to be married as soon as she reaches puberty.

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Friday, June 19, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA

Zimbabwe's Refugees



Mercy Mehlomakulu, at teacher who has come from Zimbabwe in search of work and who has recently requalified in South Africa stands with her one year old son in the room they share with 14 other families in the Methodist Mission, Johannesburg, South Africa on the 3rd June, 2009.


A woman, who has just migrated to South Africa from Zimbabwe in search of work and food, tries to get some sleep at the bottom of a staircase with her baby, at the Methodist Mission in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa on the 3rd June, 2009. Over 2000 refugees from Zimbabwe sleep in the mission every night, and despite reports that the situation is improving in Zimbabwe, more continue to arrive every week.

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