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  • A man counts money he's just received from a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • Money is handed out to beneficiaries during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distrubution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, gives water to drink to her daughter Jusu, 2, at home in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Jenneh has been receiving 2050 Liberian dollars (approx. 28 USD) per month since April 2010 through a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme. She says the money has allowed her to renovate the roof of her home, and send all her children to school. Before joining the programme only two of her children attended school.
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  • A staff from a local bank holds a handfull of money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A woman helps young men cover themselves with talcum powder as they prepare for wrestling matches during the yearly evala festival in the town of Houde, northern Togo, on Thursday July 12, 2007. The powder, fighters say, makes it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp.<br />
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During the week-long tourney, young men wrestle against peers from their own and other villages. The evala festival is not only a sporting event, but also part of the rites of passage young men from the KabyŽ ethnic group will complete as they become full-grown men. The fighters, called evalo, will wrestle on three consecutive years to show their strength and their worth as they become full members of the community. <br />
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Wrestlers cover themselves with talcum powder to allegedly make it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp. Rubbing hands with dirt is also a popular technique which many believe helps counter the slippery effect of talcum powder. On the eve of the first day of fighting, the father of each evalo will buy a dog for his son to eat. It is believed that the meat of the animal will endow the young man with the strength and courage characteristic to the animal.<br />
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While the wrestling is reserved to young men in their early to mid-twenties, younger boys also take part in unofficial matches as they prepare to become the next evalo. Even though supporters often become infuriated when their fighter is denied the victory they think he deserves, the outcome of the wrestling matches has little importance. Winners celebrate alongside those who are defeated and more than anything else, the evala festival is a social gathering where KabyŽs come to meet each other. Many KabyŽs in the diaspora even come home to attend the event. <br />
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The first day of fighting pits evalos from two halves of a same village against each other. On the next day, fighters from an entire village wrestle against their peers from a neighbor settlement before joining them and facing together a similar gr
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  • Young men covered with talcum powder (used to make it more difficult for opponents to get a firm grasp) wait for wrestling matches to start during the yearly evala festival in the town of Houde, northern Togo, on Thursday July 12, 2007.<br />
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During the week-long tourney, young men wrestle against peers from their own and other villages. The evala festival is not only a sporting event, but also part of the rites of passage young men from the KabyŽ ethnic group will complete as they become full-grown men. The fighters, called evalo, will wrestle on three consecutive years to show their strength and their worth as they become full members of the community. <br />
<br />
Wrestlers cover themselves with talcum powder to allegedly make it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp. Rubbing hands with dirt is also a popular technique which many believe helps counter the slippery effect of talcum powder. On the eve of the first day of fighting, the father of each evalo will buy a dog for his son to eat. It is believed that the meat of the animal will endow the young man with the strength and courage characteristic to the animal.<br />
<br />
While the wrestling is reserved to young men in their early to mid-twenties, younger boys also take part in unofficial matches as they prepare to become the next evalo. Even though supporters often become infuriated when their fighter is denied the victory they think he deserves, the outcome of the wrestling matches has little importance. Winners celebrate alongside those who are defeated and more than anything else, the evala festival is a social gathering where KabyŽs come to meet each other. Many KabyŽs in the diaspora even come home to attend the event. <br />
<br />
The first day of fighting pits evalos from two halves of a same village against each other. On the next day, fighters from an entire village wrestle against their peers from a neighbor settlement before joining them and facing together a similar group on the third day of the event. After one day
    TGO108.jpg
  • Edith Saysay, 35, pours palm oil into a pot as she cooks in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Edith and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • Tarah, 7, helps her mother Edith Saysay, 35, clean dishes  outside their home in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Edith and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • Edith Saysay, 35, holds a bowl with dried peppers as she cooks at home in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Edith and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • Fish cooks in a pot at the home of Edith Saysay in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Edith and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • Tarah 7, prepares cassava leaves as she cooks with her mother Edith at their home in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Tarah and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
    LBR12.0403.NUT0508.JPG
  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, feeds her daughter Jusu, 2, at home in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Jenneh has been receiving 2050 Liberian dollars (approx. 28 USD) per month since April 2010 through a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme. She says the money has allowed her to renovate the roof of her home, and send all her children to school. Before joining the programme only two of her children attended school.
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  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, feeds her daughter Jusu, 2, at home in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Jenneh has been receiving 2050 Liberian dollars (approx. 28 USD) per month since April 2010 through a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme. She says the money has allowed her to renovate the roof of her home, and send all her children to school. Before joining the programme only two of her children attended school.
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  • A man counts money he's just received from a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • Project staff hold a beneficiary card during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A woman receives money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A staff member from a local bank counts money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A staff member from a local bank counts money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, a mother of six, waits to receive money from a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A member of a social mobilization team uses a megaphone from a moving vehicle to inform the population about the upcoming polio vaccination round in Djambala, Republic of Congo on Tuesday December 7, 2010.
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