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Education cannot wait investments transform children’s lives in Somalia

Education cannot wait investments transform children’s lives in Somalia

ABDALLE AHMED MUMIN  TEN-YEAR-OLD Sabah Abdi from Ali Isse, a small rural village on the Somaliland-Ethiopian border, scored well in her recent exams, placing third overall in her local village school of 400 students. Yet it was just three years ago Sabah spent her days helping with household chores and herding goats, rather than studying because her pastoralist family could not afford her school fees. “I’m very glad to be among the top three students in the village school. I am hoping to be a doctor and cure sick people in the village when I grow up,” Sabah told IPS. Droughts,…
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