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Caption:		Ashanti Area Development Programme, Ghana, Africa. Most of the children in Appiadwaa village walk about barefoot and in tattered clothes. As in much of rural Ghana, most parents in this farming village do not worry much about decent clothing. Keeping the children alive and in reasonable health is enough challenge. The children in the community are happy after gift-in-kind clothing has been distributed to them by Relief Manager Chris Bonuedie. Ten-year old Yaa Yaa Ayi walks barefoot most of the time. Snake bites are common in this area of the Savannah grasslands of central Ghana's Greater Afram Plains, and Yaa Yaa and her friends are always at risk. Iddrisu Haruna, a 7-year-old boy in the same village, also wears tattered clothes most of the time. During the rainy season, when the weather often gets rather chilly by Ghanaian standards, Haruna and other children like him catch colds and often suffer from coughs. Children's clothes are a critical need in the Ashanti program. Photo by Faustina Boakye/World Vision.
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