Pebble Pickers (IMAGE)

Lancaster University

Pebble Pickers

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These women are alleged witches and live in the Northern Region of Ghana. They are picking pebbles and sieving dust mixed with maize, soya bean and other grains gathered from the floor of the town market to clean and make food for themselves and their families living in a witch camp. Witch camps are protected villages where women who have been accused of being witches flee to for their own safety, but where they can become trapped.
 

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Rural Women & Youth Empowerment for Development Agency - RUWYEDA

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