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Assitan

Together Until Graduation, Mali

Sponsor

TA

Class

2

Born in 

2001

Assitan is a beautiful girl, tall, slim, decorative, 15 years old, in the 9th grade, the 4th best student in the class. Her parents live in the countryside, she was taken in by her two older sisters, one of whom is a doctor, but cannot find a job. She only goes home during breaks and visits her parents and 4 younger brothers who live 160 km away. Her father is a driver, his mother is a housewife. Her sisters pay for her studies and her living. They live together in a narrow yard, where there is only electricity, no water, no toilet. She has school supplies, a uniform, and eats very simple meals, three times a day. She likes math and wants to continue her studies at the good Notre Dame high school, like her sister, she wants to become a doctor. She helps a lot in the household, but she can only cook rice. She likes literature, she longs for books in French.

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