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Photo from Garey, Cameroon
 
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There are seven water forages in Garey, a village of approximately 5,000 residents. Forages are deep-water sources that have been dug, then lined with concrete. Children often bounce up and down on the pump to get water, just as this girl is doing.

by Madhuri Kasat
Garey, Cameroon (1999)

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