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Zainab is smart lovely girl who lives with her single-parents mother, one brother and two sisters in the village. The father is working in the gold mining area and visited the family once in a year. The family lives in a four room house built of mud bricks with zinc roof. Their village is deprived of good drinking water and electricity supply. The mother a backyard gardener that grow crops like garden eggs, beans, and other vegetables and groundnut as food at home and sell some to earn income. Her annual income is USD 377 and very meager to up keep a family of five. Zainab and her siblings lack decent clothes to wear and basic educational supports. She attends the village primary school using a pair of uniform and a pair of sandals all year round. She likes storytelling and reading of poem and reading the 26 alphabets. Zainab sometimes leads her class mates to read and sing songs on local dialect. She is very fun of friends in school and at home and relatively in good health.