Neglected communities
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population-based survey randomly selected the hamlet of Tunku. The survey team waded across flooded paddy fields, constantly asking for directions. Tunku turned out to be a cluster of five mud huts perched on a hill on the bank of the River Gambia. The team found two families and one blind old woman there. The villagers could only reach their homes from the river using dugout canoes, and they grew their crops in fields that flooded. Why would anyone choose to live here, in this ‘end of the road’ place?
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