Thursday, June 25, 2009

EVERYTHING GOES ON AHEAD(and sometimes on the back of a bike)




carrying, carrying, everything perfectly balanced on their heads:


huge bunches of bananas.


piles of grass (for the cows)


20 litres of water


kerosene


petrol


50 kilogramme sacks of charcoal


suitcases


baskets full of every fruit and vegetable under the (rwandan)sun


a single bed


a dining table and four chairs


A BATH!


women carry everything balanced on an "ingata"- a woven ,padded circle like a donut


men carry loads just so.


bikes are not for riding here(too steep) they are for pushing heavy loads up steep slopes- imagine trying to push 8 full crates of beer up a 50 degree slope!


and of course there are the babies nestling on ther mothers backs while she works or carries a load,so many babies, carried till they are about 4.




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