Layefa portrait - close up

Layefa Malemi lives in absolute poverty in a small village in Nigeria from which Shell extracts tens of millions of dollars worth of oil every week. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but must fish in the oil-infested waters for four years to raise the funds.

Date: January 2007
Location: Niger Delta, Nigeria
Copyright: Spanner Films
Credit: Spanner Films
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