Every fortnight, on Sunday, Edith Adams departs Moruka in a small boat powered by a 15 horse-power engine for a trip to Charity that takes up to nine hours.
The boat is laden with cassava bread and casareep which she sells at the Cinderella County’s famous Monday Market. It is a risky journey during which the small craft must encounter the treacherous waters of the Atlantic Ocean;
but Edith has grown used to the risk. It forms part of a tough and demanding enterprise in