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Haiti's shoeshine brigade has dirty job in dirty time

The State 06 Apr 2004
There, they once worked hands into fertile soil ... In Port-au-Prince, a city where festering refuse is strewn and piled high everywhere - garbage pickup is virtually nonexistent - and where water perpetually pools in badly broken or unpaved roads, the shoeshine boys and men need not look far for customers with soiled footwear.
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Budget Speech 2003: Operation Drive Them Away?

AfricaNews 06 Jan 2003
Let's say it loud ... Let's put it this way ... Let's call a spade a spade ... To come across a son of the soil who shoeshines is more of a Herculean task than looking for a needle in a haystack ... Rather, I am of the staunch view that it is to rid our beloved country of non-sons and daughters of the soil and spur Gambians to be productive ... .
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One week on, survivors tell of the twists of fate that made the difference between life and death

The Independent 18 Sep 2001
It was a good day to be late for work ... His sense of flustered impatience must have been compounded when he just missed one of the express lifts for the upper floors ... He fled ... David Mancano, one of a small army of Brazilian shoeshiners who maintained the executive lustre of the brokers and dealers, said ... It was like eating pure soil." ... .
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