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My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

SOUTH AFRICA | Friday, 28 October 2011 | Views [1049]

Heating Up: Make-shift outside kitchen facilities are commonplace on school grounds. Large cast iron pots rest on wood fires boiling starchy foods like rice, porridge and samp to fill hungry tummies. The intensity of the heat and the smoke is suffocating but the volunteers work without complaint.

Tags: feeding scheme, food, fire

Achieving Together:
A large pile of chopped wood rests against the wire school fence. The wood is collected for use in building fires for the cooking of school meals. Volunteers work together quietly and efficiently to sort the pots for the food distribution while learners wait, and watch eagerly, from their desks.

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Steering Appetites:
In addition to the nutrition scheme, vendors arrive at schools to sell a range of snacks for learners and educators – including chips, sweets, atchar (spicy relish), vetkoek (deep-fried dough balls), fish and even chicken feet. This lady transports all her goods by herself in her wheelbarrow, which also conveniently doubles as a seat during the long waits between lesson breaks. The atypical use of the wheelbarrow is framed by various bright cylindrical shapes which also seem out of place.

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