Action Aid Projects

Sabrina, 3, sits near her mother Elizabete Lima de Souza, 33, left, in the countryside of Brazil's northeastern state of Maranhao. Sabrina attends a pre-school which the Action Aid-supported Association of Land Reform Settlements of Maranhao State (ASSEMA) helps support. ASSEMA is an umbrella NGO of associations operated for and by rural peasants and babassu nut crackers, The babassu palm, native to this northeastern corner of Brazil, is an important part of the local culture and economy - more than 60 products come from it including oil used for cooking and cosmetics as well as the nutshell which is used as cooking fuel.(AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)

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Sabrina, 3, sits near her mother Elizabete Lima de Souza, 33, left, in the countryside of Brazil's northeastern state of Maranhao. Sabrina attends a pre-school which the Action Aid-supported Association of Land Reform Settlements of Maranhao State (ASSEMA) helps support. ASSEMA is an umbrella NGO of associations operated for and by rural peasants and babassu nut crackers, The babassu palm, native to this northeastern corner of Brazil, is an important part of the local culture and economy - more than 60 products come from it including oil used for cooking and cosmetics as well as the nutshell which is used as cooking fuel.(AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)

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