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Skin collecting is child’s play in Algeria

08/11/2012
A newspaper report in Algeria has given details of the activity surrounding skin collection in the city of Oran following the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha, which this year took place at the end of October.

It said that a long-standing tradition of families using rudimentary methods to tan at home the skins of the animals they slaughter for the sacrifice that is central to the feast has all but died out.

Instead, it said boys were going from neighbourhood to neighbourhood in the days following the festival to find sheepskins among household waste, loading them onto carts and selling them on to local tanners for a price of just over $1 per skin. Tanners are happy to buy them up because of the value of tanned sheepskin in the international market at the moment.

One boy said he was typically able to find 45 skins a day.


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