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Shadowing the newsreader

Listen to the newsreader read out each line and then practise saying it. Record your own voice line by line and submit your voiceover.

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These women in Djibouti do an important job.

They help local businesses, visitors and tourists.

The women are money changers.

Their bags contain different kinds of currency.

They change international currencies like dollars and euros.

They also change local Djiboutian francs and Ethiopian birr.

Noura Hassan started changing money when her husband died 10 years ago.

She explains how she always knows the correct price.

Over half the women in Djibouti, in north east Africa, have no education.

But money changers need few skills.

Medina thinks it's a good opportunity.

This is a poor neighbourhood, but the money changers are needed.

It's an area visited by business people and visitors from Ethiopia.

They all have money to change but there are no banks nearby.

Money changers offer a useful service.

The women work together so they can help each other.

As money changers, they are also safer in groups.

Zahra says this scares away thieves.

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