![]() ![]() So he borrowed 1 ½ bags of rice and 250,000 francs (about $35) - more cash than he sees in a year - and killed his last goat. Ouamouno had no money to pay for the burials and feed the many mourners who came from other villages to perform a mass funeral rite. More expensive and useless trips to the clinic followed as Ouamouno's 4-year-old daughter died, then her mother, eight months' pregnant, followed quickly by the grandmother, an aunt and the midwife who delivered his wife of a stillborn baby. When Ouamouno took his son to the village doctor, he had to pay 20,000 Guinea francs ($2.75) for medication. ![]() ![]() Like most of the villagers, he's also broke. ![]()
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