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Here are five mauritanian children who have approached Doudou in order to get to know him.
“ Hello, says Doudou, who are you?
- We are the childrens of the oasis of El Berbera, answers the taller, we live here and we are in charge of growing the palm trees.
- This might be a lot of work, answers Doudou. But how do you manage to grow palm trees?
- You need to plant dates, and to water them a lot. Fortunately we have the “guelta”.
- The guelta? What is a guelta?
- We are going to show you, we just have to follow back the stream…”

© JiCé SOWA & Valérie CHERY - Décembre 2008

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