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A young Togolese girl carries a large basin of water home on her head. In many rural areas, West Africans have to walk some distance to hand-draw water from open wells. The time-consuming chore is almost exclusively relegated to women in the society. IMB Photo

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Collection: Cultural Traditions, Faces of the World, Sub-Saharan Africa
Tags: africa, child, rural, sub-saharan africa, togo, water
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