STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL
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Last published Fri, Dec 8, 2017
"...you have to go. Go and don't come back again. Don't ever come to see me again." These were words from a mother to her child.
Uche, a fifteen year old girl, toughened up by life on the streets. The streets of Warri, filled with children, unloved and abandoned with no other place to go.
When her sister turns up dead and her mother doesn't do anything about it, she goes to Rachael for help, a worker at a rehabilitation centre and together, they try to find out who killed her sister since the government doesn't care enough to catch the killer. At the same time still trying to free herself from the clutches of the streets.
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