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Dora Moono Nyambe, a Zambian teacher, used TikTok to share videos of daily life in her village and drew millions of followers. Thanks to the donations from her fans, she plans to bring education to hundreds of rural African children.
* Dora Moono Nyambe uses TikTok to document village life * Her followers have donated to build school, hire teachers * Nyambe faced trolling and accusations of 'charity porn' By Nita Bhalla Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Zambian teacher Dora Moono Nyambe started posting videos on TikTok three years ago, she had to ask her daughter's 13-year-old friend how to use the popular social media platform. Today, Nyambe has amassed four million TikTok followers with colourful videos of daily life in her village of Mapapa - and raised almost $500,000 to bring education to hundreds of marginalised rural children.
She may only be 30 years old, but Dora Moono Nyambe has already made an incredible difference for dozens of kids she's rescued in a remote village in southeast Africa. Nyambe fosters over 150 kids, providing them with food, a safe home, healthcare and an education in the village of Mapapa in Zambia and she posts all about it on TikTok.