The annual peanut harvest: it's a joyful community event. Students are excused from school; everyone from young to old pitches in to pick, dry, shuck and sack the bounty. There are no corner grocery stores in rural South Sudan, so for most families a good harvest of "groundnuts" (as they are called in Africa) means they will not starve during "the hungry months" each year.
Here we see a family in South Sudan with MBB Scholar in the foreground working together to transfer the nuts --well, actually, legumes -- to a sack for safe storage.
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