Amina (Water Seller)
Little Amina is ten years old. She is in primary four and after school hours she sells ice water. Amina collects the water from a retailer and is given a percentage of the sales. If she sells all her water she will earn about five cents (or enough to buy one satchel of water). The money she makes she gives to her mother to take care of them.
Little Amina has three siblings. Her mother is a house wife and her father is a labourer. He works when there are buildings that need constructing.
Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more 
