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On behalf of Camfed

FT aims to help African schoolgirls beat poverty

By Michael Peel in Samfya

Published: December 3 2007 02:00 | Last updated: December 3 2007 02:00

Maggie, a 14-year-old Zambian schoolgirl, cries as she recalls how her stepfather was accused seven years ago of killing a neighbour's child using witchcraft.

As a tear streaks down her left cheek, she describes how a local group started a deadly campaign of persecution against her family, focused on her mother.

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