The Damara people mostly live in north-western Namibia, in the south-west of Africa. They are often poor and marginalised by the dominant Herero and Nama peoples, and in 1960 were forced in the arid Bantustan (homeland) of Damaraland by the South African government that occupied Namibia at that time. Damara people often use donkey-drawn carts for transport. The carts are home made, and often use the axle and suspension from a small utility or pickup truck as part of its construction. In February 2005 we can across this Damara family comprising a grandmother and her husband, two younger men and a nine year-old boy and a five-year old girl. They were returning home from the small town of Khorixas, where they had unsuccessfully tried to obtain malaria treatment for the boy but had been refused because they had no money. Their cart, drawn by four donkeys had developed a puncture, and the men were fixing it by tying off the leak with a strip of rubber from an old inner tube. It was dangerous work – the patient donkeys were still hitched to the cart, which was propped up with a piece of timber and its wheels chocked with rocks. We loaned them tools, and gave them water, bread, mangoes and a little money to help them on their way.