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Send Femi to college

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Wait But Why is a great blog site.  Recently they published this article about Nigeria.  In it, a man named Femi, who has virtually no connection to the author (Tim), sacrificed his time to host Tim:  "This turned into Femi taking me under his wing for almost the entire trip, showing me around Lagos, having me over to his apartment, sending me with his brothers to stay for half a week with their mom at their childhood home, introducing me to a bunch of other locals, and answering my roughly 12,000 questions about life in Nigeria. Convenient.

I stayed with different members of the family during the trip and got to know a few of them pretty well—it’s a mom and her nine kids, who range from the ages of nine to 32. After growing up in a tiny village, four of the siblings now live together in a small one-bedroom apartment in Lagos, and three others live in the smaller town of Ife with their mom in a one-room apartment. Both apartments are paid for by Femi, the second oldest sibling and the oldest guy. He was getting ready to start college when their dad got sick and died at a young age. Femi dropped his plans and started working as a professional driver to support the family, something he’s still doing a decade later, and his siblings say he’s like a dad to all of them."

I want Femi, who makes so many sacrifices for others, to be able to have a shot at going to college.  Who's with me?

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Bob SnuggleBuns Krieger
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New York, NY

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