A Serendipitous Production

In October 2007 Anne Brichto was the toast of the Welsh Assembly and Houses of Parliament after she led her home town Hay on Wye to beat 52 other towns for the coveted prize of being twinned with Timbuktu. After the celebrations, Anne’s daughter was diagnosed with anorexia, by December 2007 she was given less than 3 weeks to live and teenagers in Bridge End began committing suicide. These events have fuelled Anne’s quest to travel across Mali to take part in the lives of ordinary Malians in an effort to learn what we have forgotten to instil in our youth. 

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