Filipino girl, 6, abandoned in the UAE

Fathima was given up by her real mother in Dubai when she was a year old

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Ashley Hammond, UAE Editor and Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor
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Six-year-old Fathima dreams of attending school where she can play, draw pictures and make friends. But she is instead holed up in a flat in Ajman awaiting the necessary paperwork to merely exist.

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