Julia Lebetkin

Packs of girls line the streets, sitting asleep in oversized tin bowls. Colorful scarves cover their hair. They have on flowing gauze skirts and rubber flip-flops wedged over muddy tube socks. Dark scars run down their cheeks like teardrops, unlike the speck on one cheek of most hailing from the Ashanti Region...

These are the kayayoo (porters) of Ghana who, searching for a livelihood in an economic system stacked against them, are left with this harsh path.

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