Photo Credit: Refugees International
10/25/2006

Pictured with three of her four children in Cote d’Ivoire, this woman fled the war in Liberia fifteen years ago and had to leave behind five of her children. She has no news from them, but hopes they may have survived in Liberia. On the journey to safety, Sister L gave birth to a daughter who was two weeks old when they reached Cote d’Ivoire. She moved to the countryside and did small jobs and trading to support herself. She built a small mud hut, married a man from Benin and had three more children for whom she obtained birth certificates permitting them to attend primary school. Her youngest son was doing very well at school and she was anxious for his education to continue. Unfortunately, her daughter with no birth certificate could not attend public school and private school was too expensive.