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Drissa Sogoba

Cherifoula, Bamako, Mali

Sponsor

Mazsi

Class

7

Born in 

2010

Drissa, 8 years old and in third grade, lives with his parents and two siblings in a rented room on the roof of a ready-made house. The house is life-threatening, there is no barrier anywhere. The father works in a factory, the mother runs the household. Two children go to school, the third is still small. Drissa has a uniform, but no shoes. The family eats three times a day. The talented little boy loves grammar, including conjugation. He also likes to play ball (bomber, as he tells it) and soccer. His favorite team is Real Madrid. When he is not playing, he helps with the cleaning. He studies in the evenings, by his own admission, "he doesn't have enough time to study." He wants to be a police officer. He wants textbooks.

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