CBBC Newsround | WORLD | Profiles: Get to know the kids

Updated 24 January 2003, 10.59

Lizo and Laura have met children from all over Africa, to see what it's like to grow up there.
Click on the profiles below to find out more about the some of the kids they met.

Jingo

Check out the facts on this football crazy Ugandan teen!

Judith

Find out about a girl growing up with famine in Malawi

Houkai

This 10-year-old girl is a nomad and lives in a tent in the desert near Timbuktu

Shina

Find out about a 12-year-old boy who used to be a streetchild in Lagos, Nigeria

Rosa

Meet the 13-year-old South African girl who dances to pay for her education

Winnie

Get the facts on this young Masai girl who's learning how to surf the web in Kenya

Janet

Meet a teenager who's life is affected by Aids

Msawawa

Introducing the South African boy who's had five chart hits at the age of 13!

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