Ellie

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Rita_12345 My family and I live in south Sudan. I am a 15 year old girl named Rita. I live with my dad, 48, my 6 brothers Zodaya,6, Zaidyn,6, Zachary,6, Chris,5, Conner,5, ,5 and my grandmother, 78, and grandfather,79. My mother died when my younger brothers were 1 week old. She was shot by a soldier in her sleep at the hospital and we believed that they where targeting her. My grandmother's name is Chinoo. She was named after my great grandmother that died a week after she was born. My friends (who are also our neighbors) who's mother also died get together with me during the week and make food for all of our family members that are to old to make food for themselves.

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Ellie_12345 My mother started having really bad cramps so she went to the hospital a week later and gave birth to three little boys. A year later she had another set of triplets. A week after giving birth to her second set of triplets, the soldier shot her. She was rushed to the hospital and 20 minutes later, pronounced dead.

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Ellie_12345 Every morning I wake up at 6 am with my father. I send him off to try to get a job at 7 and tell him to be home before dark. Then at around 7:30 I wake up my brothers I let the baby's sleep until we have to go somewhere because it is easier to get things done when they are asleep. Then when they are awake. Normally I have to wake them up at around 10 o'clock to take then to go try to find another interview for my dad so if he comes home workless again by the time we get home we have a small sip of water and 1,1 bight of food to hold our stomachs over until dinner by this time it is 12 in the afternoon.

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Ellie_12345 It is 12 o'clock and my siblings and I just ate a small and very normally sized lunch. Now my grandparents take over the responsibility of my siblings. I will go and meet with the other girls from my village or town to make food for tomorrow lunch and dinner I am out making food for about 4 to 5 hours every day. I get home to my sibling to take care off them at about 5:30 my father normally gets home at 6. my grandparents by this point are very tired and need to sit down and rest. They rest for 30 minutes until my dad gets home and then we all have our 2 to 3 scoops of food and tonight we are lucky tonight we got to have the bread but there isn't enough bread for all of us to have one peace I got my own peace of bread but everyone else had to share there bread and split it in half but we have all learned to be happy that we are fortunate to have food on the table every night.

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Ellie_12345 My family is very fortunate we also have straw beds most of my friend and village mates only have carboard and a animal fur blanket for every night. This is what I think about when I am getting ready for bed. Then when I lay down in my bed I think about how in America right know there are millions of people laying in a soft cozy bed and how I could be one od=f them if the solders didn’t find me and my family. Every day I dream about having those bed all over south Sudan and the Sudanese people being free these are my hopes and dreams. I also hope that one day I will be able to move back to America and live in a house with food for everyday life with my amazing family and not have to worry about being killed of my house collapsing on me.