Image Number: APN106355
Title: Women
Path:
african.pictures /
Twenty Ten /
Simone Scholtz
Description: Burundi, Bujumbura, Members of a women's organization weaving carpets to sell on the market in one of the poorest areas on the outskirts by of Bujumbura. The organization was strated by Banyankirubusa Dorothee, an illetarate women form a rural village. Together they grow crops to feed their families, look after orphans and rape victims and run their small restuarant. Women are not allowed to inheret and sexual abuse is rife in the post war society, yet these women fight to better their lives together, March 2006.
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
Simone Scholtz
Country: Burundi
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2492 x 3738
Media Id: 14_512
Credit: Simone Scholtz / Africa Media Online
Keywords:
Africa,
feet,
Burundi,
Bujumbura,
sand,
palm leaves,
vertical,
colour image ,
,
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Property Release: No