TAMPION, Ghana, December 2011 - AMAMA Abdullai is the first girl in her family to hold a pencil and trace the letters of her name. The first of her seven sisters to walk into a classroom, sit at a bench and learn to count from one to ten. And she’s the first to dream of becoming a doctor. This was unthinkable two months ago, before Amama started attending School for Life in her hometown of Tampion in northern Ghana, an accelerated learning programme for out-of-school children. Students attend three-hour classes, five days a week for nine months, after which they can attend Class four in mainstream school. Amama, nine, said that before the programme started in her village, she had lost hope that she would ever enter a classroom. The youngest in her family, she watched as her brothers were all given the chance to enrol in school. “I always asked my father for permission, but he said to wait. I felt like the waiting would never end,” she said as she looked down at her coloured nails. (C) UNICEF Ghana/2013/Mlogan
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