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‘She became a girl on a mission’

Safoora Mian-Cudmore, 47, lives in Bristol with her husband, Lee, 49, and children, Rafae, 17, Idrees, 15, and Amaarah, 13.

‘WE MADE PACKED LUNCHES’

Walking through the city centre one afternoon, in November 2017, my daughter Amaarah, then nine, tugged my arm. She looked at me innocently and pointed to a few homeless people begging on the street. ‘Why are they doing that?’ she asked. I explained as simply as I could that they didn’t have a home. ‘Well, what can we

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