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First Lady of Sierra Leone thanks pupils in Dubai
The First Lady of Sierra Leone has personally thanked school children in Dubai for helping the country's disadvantaged orphans.
- By Alice Johnson, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:06 June 16, 2008
Dubai: The First Lady of Sierra Leone has personally thanked school children in Dubai for helping the country's disadvantaged orphans.
"Some of them can't afford lunch like you and me; think about them when you have lunch," First Lady Alice Sia Koroma said to students at Kings' School.
"I am their mother, so I'm saying thank you to you all," she said.
Students at the school have raised Dh33,000 for the All As One charity orphanage in Sierra Leone, through different activities, such as a 10km run.
Koroma visited two schools in Dubai, on the International Day of the African Child on June 16, which remembers the 1976 child massacre in Soweto.
Currently, Sierra Leone is the poorest nation in the world.
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