Jerita Saibori used to sleep under a roof made of palm leaves and take her bath in the river. Living in the remote jungles of Indonesia's Papua province, the then six-year-old and her family had no electricity or running water. The city was some two days away by speedboat.
Four years ago, she and 14 other Papuan children given up by families too poor to feed them got a fresh start when four Singaporeans set up an orphanage for them in Batam.
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