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Roads improved through food for work projects

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    Travel time on a 55-km stretch of dirt road linking Sao Domingos and Varela near the Senegalese border in north-west Guinea-Bissau has been reduced from two-and-a-half hours to one hour, following the completion of a WFP-supported road repair project, OCHA reported in its most recent humanitarian situation report of 1-15 November.

    The project, which was implemented with the help of a national partner, recruited 50 persons in 11 different villages for 90 days of work, meaning that a total of 550 people received food in exchange for their labour.

    Likewise, a 2.5-km road running through low lying swamps near the Cacheu river in north-west Guinea-Bissau is being reinforced with seashells carried to the area by women in canoes, OCHA said.
    During an inter-agency visit on 6 November over 250 women and 50 canoes were at work, OCHA said.

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