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Marie lives with her parents including six siblings in a six bedroom mud bricks adobe house with dirt floors and no toilet facilities. Her parents are small scale farmers who work in the rice field and also cultivate cassava and yams to suppliment the feeding at home. This cheerful girl is attending in one of the primary schools about two kilometres from her village. Marie is very ambitious and hardly misses her classes. She sleeps on a locally made wooden bed without proper beddings. She is a promising child. Her dream is to become a nurse one day to help in the fight against infant mortality in her community if given the opportunity through sponsorship.