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Christian AidEight legs, four legs, no legs...Some wildlife stories from Christian Aid |
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Paul Lowe is a professional photographer. Last year he went to Brazil to photograph peasant families who have been helped by the Christian Aid-supported Movement of the Landless (MST). MST had enabled these families to win the right to their own plot of land where they could support themselves. But after two years the government had done nothing about handing it over. So people were camping by the roadside, within sight of the land that they hoped would soon be theirs.
Despite terrible conditions, Paul was struck by people's 'almost overwhelming' hospitality, their energy and their joy for life. His other abiding memory is of the spiders - their bodies alone are the size of a man's hand - which cured his arachnophobia once and for all!
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Four legs Money isn't everything - in fact, for some people in Tanzania, it is nothing at all. As Rogate Mshana of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania puts it, 'People don't value money in the rural community. They value things, their own property. When they see the legs of a cow they are very happy.' |
No legs
This year's Christian Aid Week prayer card features the shell of an African land snail. Some farmers in Mozambique who are too poor to buy sickles use the shell for cutting rice.
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