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Warao children in Trinidad’s southwestern peninsula are living in squalor, running barefoot along the beach, their tiny feet covered in blisters and sores.
None are enrolled in school, and the older ones over the age of ten help their parents with work in the small fishing huts near the coast. Others play in the abandoned coconut estates on the coast.
When Guardian Media visited Icacos, some of the children were playing in the sand. Others were seen playing on the floating door of an old fridge in the waters of the beach.
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