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            Allen is a girl who just graduated from university, her nationality is African, but she lives in Singapore all the time. She has a good living environment at Singapore, because the people who adopt her are rich, they have a beautiful house in Singapore, there has a well at the courtyard, and there also has some grass and flower, the owner for this house is a doctor, 20 years ago, the owner went to Africa to help the African, he saw Allen lied at a coner by herself, because the doctor does not have children, when he left Africa, he brought Allen back to Africa and as Allen his daughter. Even though Allen's life is so good, she still not happy. She knows the owners are not her real parents. She wants to go back to Africa to help the African. And she has another important thing, she wants to find her real parents. The doctor tells her when he saw her at Africa, she still was a baby, and there was a woman staue beside her, she thinks that maybe the woman is her real mother. The doctor can not stop her to go back to Africa, when Allen leaves Singapore, the doctor gives her some coins which he collects for long time. Allen puts those coins to her wallet, it is a wallet with retro and beautiful flowers, it is a gift for her 20 birthday from one of her Singapore friend. When she looks this wallet, she will not want to leave Singapore any more, but she really want to find her real parents. Finally, the day she must leave coming, she needs to take a boat first to go to another country, it is a simple boat, and it is made by wood. There have not too much people on boat, the doctor gives her a blanket which is weaved by his wife. Allen feels so moving. 

           The trip costs her three days to arrive Africa, the government stamps on her documents by using a special stamp. When she first feel this land, she feels Africa is so poor, and there lacks of water. The shortage of water is serious. On the way to hotel, she finds many people use pottery jar collect water from the tree or little gutter. When you walk on the road, you can see many people are begging, she walk near to a woman who is begging, she finds there are three chestnuts and a wooden head before her, Allen asks her "what are you doing", she tells Allen she is begging for rainy, and the wooden head is the rain god in her heart,  the chestnuts are offerings to the god. When she looks these poor people, she decides to help her. She writes a letter to her adopted parents for helping, she wants the doctor can tell her how to find the water. There are many children have no clothes to wear, she uses a ruler which is brought from Singapore by herself to help the children to make clothes.

           Even though Allen does not find her real parents yet, but she has helped African-- her fellow to get a better life. And she decides to stay at her homeland for all the time to help more people.