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Nana Bah

Cherifoula, Bamako, Mali

Sponsor

Class

8

Born in 

2009

The 10-year-old fourth-grader girl lives with her mother's extended family. The father left the family, went to Guinea, and does not send money. Nana lives with her brother and housewife mother at the mercy of the family, as sobbingly she is telling her story. Nana studies very well - grades of 7/10-10/10 are scattered in her notebook. All she has is a tattered math book. According to the family's own admission, they can eat enough. Nana loves literature, she likes to read a lot. At home, she helps her mother a lot: washes, cleans, carries water, studies in the evenings. She wants to work in a bank. She wants a bag, textbooks and clothes, pink is her favorite color. They cannot pay the tuition fees, or only with great difficulty.

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