Sira, la petite mendiante
By: Boubacar 1er Diallo ; illustrations, Robert Koumassadouno et Emmanuel Fomba
Contributors: Koumassadouno, Robert; Fomba, Emmanuel
Series: Je découvre-- les petits métiers de la rue; Je découvre (Conakry, Guinea)
Publisher: Éditions Ganndal
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Conakry, Guinée
Language: fre
Number of pages: 13
ISBN-13: 9782350450333; 9782916101132; 9782847701548; 9789995282011
Description: Ten-year-old Sira has never gone to school; like her blind father, she begs for a living, while chanting religious verses, at traffic stops and near the Friday mosque.  One day the beggar children are rounded up by the police, and she is sent to school.  But she is not interested in school and leaves.  Later she is trained as a seamstress, but regrets having left school.
Notes: "En Guinée, comme dans de nombreux pays africains, la vie est difficile.  En travaillant, les enfants participent à la survie de leur famille.  Aliou, Alpha, Binta et Sira font partie de ces enfants qui prennent des risques et courent des dangers pour quelques pièces de monnaie"--P. 4 of cover.