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16 Apr 2012
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The chaotic daily life of beggar women
- Poverty, destitution, sadness, this is the lot of these beggar mothers present throughout the old Medina of Rabat, with their children in their arms.
- We went to meet these women whose stories are similar and who agreed to tell us about their lives, with an open heart.
- We went to meet these women whose stories are similar and who agreed to tell us about their lives, with an open heart.
Sitting, back to the wall, head pitifully tilted to the left, a child of less than fifteen months sleeping innocently in her arms, Tina, 27, holds out her hand. A gesture she accompanies with small begging words. "Sir, Sir," she calls out, not without jingling some coins. Just to attract the attention of passers-by. This is the daily life of this mother who must beg to survive. Present in this corridor of Boulevard Mohammed V, always battered by the winds and invaded by the deafening noise of car horns, this native of Nigeria explains to us, in a calm and desperate tone, that she has been on the scene since 2008. "I left my country to come here because I could no longer stay by my parents' side and see them suffer from famine without doing anything. I preferred to emigrate to earn my living," she confides to us with a barely audible voice.Tina is married. Her husband is currently in El-…
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