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Saf.mw.20.xsPoppy Qampie irons Simon’s shirt in the kitchen of their Soweto home before she leaves for work as her mother, Leah, looks on.The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Work. {{Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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Saf.mw.17.xs Getting to work is a scary daily business for Simon and Poppy Qampie, because the train that picks them up at the Phomolong station in Soweto, South Africa, is often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs.{{The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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Saf.mw.4.xxs Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa with traces of breakfast on their faces—pap (corn meal mixed with water). Published in Material World, page 24. This is the daycare center where Simon’s son George and nephew Mateo attend while their parents are at work. (see also image SAF.MW.15.01.xs) Child, Childcare, Food. {{The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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Saf.mw.15.xs Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa eat a breakfast, and a lunch, of hot pap porridge—corn meal mixed with water. This is the daycare center where Simon’s son George and nephew Mateo attend while their parents are at work. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Child, Childcare, Food. {{Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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SAF.MW.801.xs TIFThe Qampie children and a few of their friends play ‘ring around the rosie” on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Child, Games. {{Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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Saf.mw.2.xxsGetting to work can be a frightening for Poppy Qampie and her husband Simon. The trains that come into Phomolong station in Soweto are often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The danger posed by robbers is so great that sometimes Poppy opts for a minibus ride instead; although that too has become a dangerous form of transportation in recent years. Published in Material World pages 24 & 25.{{The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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Saf.mw.01a.xxs The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions. {{Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister).}}

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Saf.mw.6.xxs Poppy and Simon Qampie’s main purchase at a supermarket is always corn meal, which they mix with water to form what is known as pap—hot cornmeal porridge. Published in Material World page 25.The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Food. {{Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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Saf.mw.709.xsFuneral of a 29-year-old woman (a neighbor of the Qampies) in Soweto, South Africa. The funeral is in a tent set up on the street outside the family’s home in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. {{Poppy Qampie works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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SAF.MW.800.xsThe Quampie children and a few of their friends play ‘ring around the rosie” on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Child, Games. {{Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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Saf.mw.9.xxsLeah and Anna, Poppy Qampie's mother and sister, respectively, visit in the kitchen of Poppy’s house in Soweto, South Africa. Published in Material World page 27. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. {{Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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Saf.mw.707.xsPoppy Qampie passes by root vegetables and fruit for sale by the plate full near the office where she works as an assistant in downtown Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. {{The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}

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