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Malaria and Bakouma

This is Bakouma Kpatekatola, a young man from the West African nation of Togo. In 2003, when Bakouma was 9 years old, my family became his sponsor through the Childreach-Plan USA organization. In the years since we became occasional pen pals; a few times a year we’d get a letter from him, in his native French, along with an English translation from his caseworker.

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- March 20, 2010 -

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