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Volunteer Ivory Coast
The Ivory Coast or, as it would prefer to be called, the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is an example of Africa gone wrong insofar as, following independence, it was a safe, secure and economically viable state unlike so many of its neighbours, yet threw all of that away through greed and corruption to make itself a failed state by the turn of last century. Today the Ivory Coast is ranked in 168th place out of 186 countries and territories in 2013 in terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to knowledge and the living standards of a country. Life expectancy stands at 57yrs and infant and under five mortality rates are among the highest in the world.
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