, Salaam City.

China World Cinema is the largest cinema in Salaam, with 12 screens. At this time, there are 4 theaters playing an animated movie called "Hulu Baby" at the same time.

"Daddy, hurry up." A child keeps urging his father.

When he came to the ticket office, the father saw the cartoon in his son's mouth, there were four theaters playing, this cartoon is really that good?

"Hello, I bought two movie tickets for "Gourd Baby".

"Hello First Brother, would you like to see the English version or the Swahili version?" Of the four theaters, two are in English and two are in Swahili.

The father said: "Swahili. After getting the ticket, the father walked into the theater with his son and waited for the next show.

In addition to the many native Swahilian-speaking people in Salam, there are also a lot of Asians and whites, who of course speak English. The already well-known "Gourd Baby" has attracted many foreigners who work and live here to watch it, and of course, they choose to watch the English version.

Throughout Kenya and ********, this "Hulu Baby" is being shown in cinemas in many cities. However, there are not many big cities with movie theaters, and many small cities don't even have movie theaters.

"Gourd Baby" grossed less than $100,000 a day in Kenya and ********, but Mr. Zhao didn't make any money. In addition to giving the box office share that should be given to the cinemas, the rest went to international aid organizations.

Zhao Xiaochuan's original intention was to promote "Gourd Baby", and the effect was effective, but the actual benefit was very small.

There are many Americans who work here who will communicate with their friends back home after watching "Hulu Baby", and some will comment on the Internet or post messages on Facebook. As a result, the box office of "Gourd Baby" in European and American countries has risen slightly.

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Dia, 15 years old, spends her days playing with her friends in the town, in addition to farm work in the family's fields.

Dia is the eldest son in the family, with a total of four children, and he also has two younger brothers and a younger sister. Compared to most families here, their family of four children is relatively small.

In Dia's mind, the family's poor living conditions are largely due to the large number of children, and the fifteen-year-old is wiser than most Africans in this regard. Many Africans don't understand this truth, and the poorer they are, the more they will have.

Dia's family depends entirely on farming, with tobacco and cotton being their main crops.

After finishing elementary school, Dia did not go to school. This situation is very common, and most of the children of peasant families do not go to school after finishing primary school, and those with better conditions will go to secondary school. Dia loves to learn, and in his eyes, that is the only way out, the only way to get his family out of poverty and become rich.

There are four children in the family, and it is impossible to invest all the money in him, so Dia did not continue to go to school after finishing primary school, he knows the situation at home, and he has no complaints. Dia hopes to find an opportunity to earn a sum of money that will allow his youngest brother to go to school until he graduates from college.

In addition to her busy farming time, Dia often plays with Barcelona. There is a lot of tobacco grown in Barcelona's house, and I heard that there are tobacco companies that buy tobacco from Barça's house. Barça's family is good, and he is the only one of his peers who knows is still in school.

Dia often discussed with him some learning problems, and although he was no longer in school, he was still studying on his own. He believed that these things would be used sooner or later.

In addition to studying, Dia keeps an eye out for strangers in town. Because strangers represent opportunity, he had heard of a young man in the town who was taken by a businessman from out of town and taken to Harare, and his life was changed from then on. Dia was expecting something like that to happen to him.

This is the naïve fantasy of a fifteen-year-old boy, and the thing he thought was real was probably just a story that someone made up when he was bored.

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Zhao Xiaochuan was on his way to Zimbabwe at this time, and he learned from the head of the international aid organization in ******** that Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, has the African headquarters of the International Children's Fund. Because Zhao Xiaochuan is playing cartoons, he can try his luck.

"Boss, I'm going to Zimbabwe soon, you need to watch your wallet." Kane said half-jokingly.

Zhao Xiaochuan came all the way from Kenya and ******** and found that Africa was not as chaotic as it was rumored, but it was generally poor. Indifferently, it is only the ordinary people and the government who are poor, and Zhao Xiaochuan has seen several high-end sports cars on the streets of Nairobi.

Along the way, except for the roads in the big cities that are relatively flat, not to mention the highways, there are asphalt roads that are already good, and many places are dirt roads.

"It's not that strict." Zhao Xiaochuan felt that Kane was exaggerating.

Seeing that Zhao Xiaochuan didn't seem to take it to heart, Kane said, "Boss, I'll tell you a joke, and you'll understand." There was a young man from a poor family who was determined to save 1 million in three years. So he worked hard to seize a possible opportunity. Finally he got into a multinational company. In the company, he was hard-working, diligent and willing to work, and was soon promoted and raised. Three years are up, boss, do you guess he has achieved his goal? ”

Zhao Xiaochuan shook his head, he seemed to have heard the joke, but he couldn't remember it.

"In the end, he exchanged the money he earned for Zimbabwean dollars, not to mention a million, but ten billion."

Zhao Xiaochuan remembered that there was also this joke in China, but it was exchanged for the Zimbabwean dollar for Vietnamese dong.

Kane continued: "Inflation in Zimbabwe is so strict that your hard-earned money becomes a pile of waste paper in a few days. Now, Zimbabwe's banks are just decorations, their money is like waste paper, no one wants it, and the dollar, pound, euro, etc. are the recognized currencies in Zimbabwe, and they also accept the yuan. ”

"In addition to being poor, they also have poor access to education and are very illiterate. And the medical situation is also terrible. These are not bad, the most serious thing is that AIDS is very rampant, **** or something, it happens often. ”

Hearing Kane's words, Zhao Xiaochuan realized what kind of place they were about to arrive. This is true for most countries in Africa, because he arrived first in Kenya, so he is more optimistic about the situation in Africa.

Kenya's economic situation in Africa is among the best in Africa because of its developed tourism industry, only slightly worse than countries such as South Africa and Egypt.

Blava City, Zimbabwe.

Zhao Xiaochuan, who had been on the road for a day, rested and stopped in the city of Brava. Brava is a city, about the size of a small town. Its first impression on Zhao Xiaochuan was that it was shabby, and in addition to being shabby, it was also dirty. There are no high-rise buildings, they are all low two- and three-story buildings, and there are large bungalows.

Zhao Xiaochuan couldn't see anyone of any other color except for blacks here, and the three of them attracted a lot of attention.

The three of them finally found a hotel with a good environment, and rested after dinner.

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