"Now it's easier for my parents to help me with my homework, because I always have the books I need."
The Kindle gives Jessie access to 140 titles, including textbooks, but mostly stories. Jessie reads aloud, in perfect, softly accented English from a Kindle, the e-reader from online company Amazon, encased in a dark green and blue canvas holder, in which she has proudly written her name in permanent ink to distinguish it from the identical readers of her classmates. For most schoolgirls in Ghana, long hair is regarded as a privilege for those who have finished school and entered adulthood. It is a sunny day," reads Jessie – a wide-eyed girl with long eyelashes, dimples in her cheeks and hair shaved close to her head.
She is reading Looking at the Weather, a story about children playing and helping their parents with household chores when they notice the skies darken and a storm approaching over the savannah.
Jessie, eight, sits beside a large black Polytank, which provides water when the taps run dry.
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