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Mina Bertha
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It is early evening, and Mina Bertha is helping her mother with the chores. Before bed she will iron her school uniform - her family is lucky because, unlike some of their neighbours, they have electricity in their small, two- room cottage. Outside in the dark a gentle ruffles the waist-high reeds and grass growing along the banks of the river, and Mina can hear the distant of a waterfall cascading into the lake at the end of the estate. Part of what used to be the estate is under water now, but when it’s very dry the tops of the abandoned houses can be seen the surface of the water. It won't be long before Mina in: she gets up at 5 in the morning to cook breakfast for her little brothers before starting out on the five mile walk to school. Her mother is expected to pick 19 kilos of tea a day, gathering the leaves in both hands as she moves slowly along the hillside and bracing a huge wicker basket on her back, holding it in place with a strap across her forehead. Mina doesn’t intend to
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