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by Mirth • 3:17 pm
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Child labour
Not all children get to go to school.
Such is the poverty in Sierra Leone that families need all the resources available to survive, which means child labour.
Life expectancy is 39-years-old for men and 42 for women. Often a child is taken from school to replace a deceased mother or father.
This brother and sister are making their way to cultivate rice in a field some miles away. The other kids in the village are at school.
This endearing photograph has captured me. It and others that document education in Sierra Leone can be found here.
