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Joseph Titus Yekeryan


Children Forced Out of School and into Labor as Poverty Tightens Grip on Rural Liberia

 By Joseph Titus Yekeryan with New Narratives SALALA, Bong County- The midday sun beats down here as 10-year-old Nulee runs from one vehicle to another with plastic sachets of cold-water urging passengers to buy. “Cold water, cold water here! Make your chest cold!” he calls out in a high-pitched voice. His childhood, once filled with…

Joseph Titus Yekeryan
Front Page Africa

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