Women in South Sudan assume the hardest daily work, such as fetching water, bringing food at home and cooking it, collecting firewood and working in farms.
In Panthau, a small village in Northern Bahr al Gazhal, South Sudan, I see three distant people weeding their land. It’s noon, the sun is strong, it’s very hot and the humidity really high. When I get closer, I realise they are three women, a mother and her two older daughters, who are preparing the family land for the coming rains. All three are sweating and breathing heavily. After introducing myself, I ask them:
–Where are the men of the family?
–There! –they say pointing two hundred metres away.
Yes. There they are, resting under the shade of a tree.
I ask them:
–Why are you not working with the women?
–Because it’s too hot! –they firmly answer.
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