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Guinea Bissau: Feeding School-Children in the Land of Plenty

Posted on 31 March 2008 by John Coster

Eticoga, Orango Island

This outer island in Guinea Bissau’s remote Bajago Archipelago is one of the most beautiful. The 283 inhabitants are mostly penniless but they have fresh water, arable land and are surrounded by water teaming with fish.

“Do we look like we’re starving,” Domingos Alves, a representative of the community in the village of Eticoga who was also a teacher, told IRIN pointing out the chubby-cheeked children milling around him at the village’s modest primary school.

Click here for full article: allAfrica.com

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