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LORPU: S428-SAN

September

2019

Meet Lorpu, who has been generously sponsored by An anonymous donor (GB). She is 8 years old and is in the K-2 this year. She lives in Sanniquellie, Liberia with her grandmother’s friend. Lorpu’s mother and father abandoned her when she was about 3 years old. She has been living with her grandmother. Unfortunately, her grandmother passed away about 3 months ago and she was taken in by her grandmother’s friend.  Lorpu hopes to be a teacher when she grows up.

**Please note: Lorpu’s hair was shaved off due to the following reason: In some parts of Liberia, women, especially first daughters and wives, are known to shave off their heads when grieving their husbands, mothers, fathers and grandparent’s death, as a sign of respect to the dead and as a new beginning. Lorpu’s grandmother passed away 3 months ago.