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![[Guinea-Bissau] Young girls carry water in buckets on their head in Bairro Militar, a poor district of Bissau where people get water from shared street taps. [Date picture taken: 05/29/2006]](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/responsive_large_2x/public/images/200662013.jpg.webp?itok=8enWwVSY "Young girls carry water in buckets on their head in Bairro Militar, a poor district of Bissau where people get water from shared street taps.")
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