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Hand-carved boat in Grand Popo. The same beaches where slave ships landed, taking people mainly to the Caribbean.

A view from the beach of Grand Popo where I lost my glasses... maybe this why it's a Radio story?

One of many happy faces in Jen's village eager to have their photo taken.

Patrishia, one of Jen's village kids.

Minding the road from Allada, these boys use a dead bird wrapped to a stick as a toy.

Jenafir's brooms on the wall outside her house, the ones she loved to sweep the yard with.

Ganvie: a village entirely on the water. Benin's main tourist attraction. Boats to the mainland use maze sacks woven into sails... we took one with an outboard motor.

From a craft shop in Ganvie.

Taken by Jen, one of the children she worked with and tried to find services for.

Culture shock: Jenafir outside a huge clothing store in Paris on her way home... caught between cultures.

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