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2. The Other Hundred is a unique photo-book project aimed as a counterpoint to the Forbes 100
and other media rich lists by telling the stories of people around the world who are not rich but
who deserve to be celebrated.
Its 100 photo-stories move beyond the stereotypes and clichés that fill so much of the world’s
media to explore the lives of people whose aspirations and achievements are at least as
noteworthy as any member of the world’s richest 1,000.
Selected from 11,000 images shot in 158 countries and submitted by nearly 1,500
photographers, The Other Hundred celebrates those who will never find themselves on the
world’s rich lists or celebrity websites.
Visit www.theotherhundred.com for more info

3. Tresor Kaluw and Joël Luya, two members of the Jeunes Comiques du Katanga - Jecoke perform in a school courtyard in Lubumbashi, the capital of Katanga province in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.

5. From 1991-2002, Sierra Leone was the
theatre of an atrocious civil war. More than
50,000 people were killed and hundreds of
thousands were displaced. Several thousand
others were deliberately mutilated by forces
of the rebel Revolutionary United Front as
part of a terror campaign aimed at
controlling diamond-rich regions.
Since 2001, a group of amputees, almost all
victims of the civil war, have met regularly
on the beaches of Freetown, the country’s
capital, to train and play football. Their team,
Sierra Leone Amputee Sports Club, has
travelled to international competitions
around the world, from Brazil in 2005, where
it came third, to Russia, Turkey, Liberia and
Ghana. In 2007, it hosted the first Amputee
African Nations Cup. It fielded two teams,
which finished third and fourth.

6. Karate, though not as popular as boxing, is well established in Burkina Faso. Many small
towns have their own “dojo” or martial arts training school. Though usually nothing more
than a spartan space with no real teacher, they attract young people eager to copy the
moves they have seen on action films from Asia at their local video club.
Jeannette Nikiéma watches these films too. As she plays with local boys most of the time, it
was no surprise when, three years ago, aged 10, she also decided to try karate. Her school
since 2007 has been part of the Sankudo Kikai Karate Do Federation, one of the most
popular varieties of karate in west Africa.

9. Around the world, coffee drinkers – including many in the world’s biggest coffeehouse chain,
Starbucks – are now enjoying the pleasure of beans from a country whose rolling green hills have
always had the potential to produce great coffee. But perhaps the biggest winners are Rwanda’s
40,000 coffee farmers – who thanks to the transformation of the industry have seen their income
double.

11. Like many Liberians, Mercy Womeh, 18, missed several years of education as a result of her country’s
civil wars of 1989-96 and 1999-2003. Three years ago, in a search for work, her family moved from the
countryside to a suburb of Monrovia, the country’s capital. Mercy is now catching up with her schooling.
She could go to a free state school. But with overcrowded classes, staff shortages and teachers who
often fail to show up, she has opted for a private school. “Yes, the education is free at state schools,”
she says. “But there are charges like paying for pamphlets and tests, so it is almost as if you are paying.
If you don’t have money, you have to drop out.”
To complete her last two years of schooling, Mercy has enrolled at J Chauncey Goodridge school, where
she is now in seventh grade. She earns the money for her fees by crushing rocks.

14. GURUE, MOZAMBIQUE
Eduardo, 22, owns a barber shop in the hillside town of Gurúè in northern Mozambique. A single pair of
clippers and a power supply are all that’s needed to run his business from a small tin-roofed concrete
shop that he rents for US$15 per month. A haircut costs about US$0.50. On some days he might have
more than 10 customers.
From a family with four brothers and three sisters, he now has a two year- old son of his own. Pictures
of American rap artists decorate the interior of his shop. He hopes that one day he will be able to visit
the United States.
Tea is the mainstay of Gurúè and its 120,000 people. The plantations that surround the town account
for around 90 percent of the local economy. Apart from his work as a barber, Eduardo occasionally
works in the plantations to supplement his income.

16. Al Faitouri Bouras Al Werfalli is the father of one of more than
1,200 inmates reportedly massacred in 1996 in Abu Salim
maximumsecurity prison in southern Tripoli.
It was more than 12 years after his son’s death, that Al Faitouri
discovered his son was amongst those killed.
The families of those incarcerated in Abu Salim prison were
responsible for providing them with food and clothing. Every
day, from 1996 until 2008, Al Faitouri’s wife prepared meals for
her son, which her husband then delivered to the jail, along with
occasional items of clothing.
At the prison, he was told he was not allowed to see or
communicate with his son. But as the guards accepted the
deliveries, Al Faitouri presumed they were being passed on.
Instead, the guards were sharing the meals and other items out
among themselves.
The Libyan government initially denied that any mass killing had
taken place, though opposition groups based overseas were
soon claiming a massacre had taken place. In the early 2000s,
officials told some families that their relatives had died in prison
but gave no reason for their death and provided no corpses.
In 2004, the government conceded that some killings had taken
place. Al Faitouri, however, didn’t receive confirmation about
the death of his son until four years later.

17. Across one square kilometre of Nairobi’s Gikomba district, more than 4,000 people work for 200
businesses that process scrap metal. Known as jua kali enterprises – the official term for people who
work beneath the open sky (jua kali is Swahili for “scorching sun”) – these businesses turn empty oil
barrels, construction waste, steel pipes, paint cans and other metal items into everything from pans and
tools to life-size statues of animals.
Most of the workers are from western Kenya. They work 12-hour days, with no holidays, sick pay or
other benefits. The average salary is US$100 a month. Only around one-fifth of their output is sold in
Kenya. The rest is exported to other East African countries and – in the case of the animal statues – to
Europe.
Recently, the jua kali industry has faced a shortage of raw materials. Unable to buy empty barrels in
Kenya, businesses now buy them in Tanzania.

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