ghanaian mother breastfeeding twins

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Ghana, village Cherembo: Group portrait of a mother with her twin babies at the breast. On each breast, she has a baby. Breast-feed her children is cheaper than to buy food. She has no money, poverty, and in the vicinity there is famine in other words, the scarce available food is expensive. When people in Ghana have a twin that is considered a bad thing. A penalty of a god for bad behavior. It is often than a child slain. This woman is not going to do that, she sees it as a gift from god. She is enjoying, sits shy laughing, laughs, and look straight ahead. Her infants drink quietly, caring mother.