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Like manual workers everywhere in this world, "Akatorot" - a Turkana woman, uses her bare hands to make a living - to get by. In collecting
firewood she cuts her way through dead tree trunks - first with a panga and then using a boulder to literally smash the larger pieces down to size.
With her friend "Napeyok" - they sit side by side on the ground with their hands deep inside the wood cracks and akin to rowing a boat, rock back
and forth until they manage to tear the dried trunk to pieces. Her hands - scarred, bleeding and busted up, lay bare witness to the life she leads
with little complaint...photographed just after she tied her bundles together for the trek back to her village.
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