Finding sanctuary in a Liberian bookstore

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It's hard to learn to read when your country has been torn apart by war and disease. It's even harder when children's books come from far away. But Wayétu Moore, whose family fled Liberia's civil war when she was five, is setting out to change the odds for kids in Liberia and other countries with low literacy. Image: Girls like Miatta (left) come to storytime at One Moore Bookstore in Monrovia. Owner Wayétu Moore (right) also publishes books like the one they're reading, ‘Gbagba,’ a Liberian word that means ‘corruption’. Credit: Prue Clarke