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Photo from Ker Cherno, The Gambia
 
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Women and girls like 16- year-old Nyorta Manjang fetch water every day and fill the jibbidahs (clay jars) for the whole compound. Jibbidahs keep water cool for drinking.

by Katherine Whitman
Ker Cherno, The Gambia (1999)

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