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Yesterday was the inaugural Melody Taft Football Tournament. Peter Bender and Anne Ostberg donated footballs, pumps and goal markers to Olng’arua School on behalf of Melody Taft. The children love football but ordinarily kids here get little chance to play. If they do the best they can normally hope for is a ball made of …

It was just after sunrise, I stood outside a mud and grass thatched hut and listened to a little girl crying inside. Ten minutes earlier the 12 year old girl had been sitting on a cured cow skin outside the door of the hut, naked and surrounded by a crowd of local women. The girl, …