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Clean water is important in the health and culture of this mother and her three-day-old child, whom I am holding. When the baby is seven days old, there will be a naming ceremony where the baby will be washed for the first time, his head will be shaved, and he will be named.

by Kimberly Mace
Dani Yare, Niger (1999)

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