We were expecting to see a charity matron, but we were greeted instead by a vivacious, hurried and energetic young woman. Dr Najat M’Jid has harnessed her youthful rage against injustice and is using it to help street children in her native Morocco. Not for her the complacency and pity usually lavished on abandoned kids; she exhorts them to be proud and courageous.

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