Chapter 6
Côte d'Ivoire . Christelle (left) and Françoise (right), both
aged 17, walk happily through the local market.
The two foundlings, abandoned by their families after
their mothers died in childbirth, are now citizens of Côte
d’Ivoire, after a judicial breakthrough – ending their
statelessness plight. Now they can go to university and
have the same rights as their fellow Ivorians.
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