This document, including all text and illustrations, is fully protected under copyright law. It is prohibited to scan or make copies of this document, wholly or in part, and to distribute any replications physically or via the internet. For more information, please visit www.SimplyStories.org.
Asfaw leaves his village in Ethiopia.
He is nine years old.
He gets a job.
He carries heavy bags on his back. He begs with the other children.
A rich lady drops a package of cheese from her basket. Asfaw picks it up.
She hires him to fetch water and chop wood. Asfaw goes to school.
Asfaw starts a school for poor children.
People build a school from old bricks.
Students sleep in the school.
They sleep on the shelves and in the cupboards.
Asfaw wants children to learn.
Asfaw visits the mayor every day.
Asfaw wants money and land for a new school.
“Asfaw is like the lion and the frog,” his friends say.
The frog croaks and croaks and the lion eats it.
“I do not care,”
Asfaw says. He laughs. He wants poor children to learn.
www.SimplyStories.org
