A cloud of brown dust rises from the groundnut de-shelling machine at the Arafat Workshop agro-processing business in The Gambia. The workers are covered with a fine layer of powder as the decortication machine spits out the remnants of the nuts' shells. This business is part of an EU-funded initiative to further develop agro-processing in the country and create more jobs.
"Yeah its hard work, life's just like that, it's all been challenging," says Mohamed Bah, who has been working at the company in Bakoteh, Serrekunda for the past five years since finishing school. "Nothing but difficult - here or elsewhere you work - we work to improve our lives, our standard of living."
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