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The long-awaited story of Bill’s sister Neema

Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center

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Neema John stands atop the trash heap on which her neighborhood is built in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (Mary Wiltenburg)

Since the Little Bill Clinton series began last summer, many readers have written to ask about Bill's sister Neema, who wasn't with her family when they came to the US two and a half years ago.

The last month of blog posts have documented my journey to Tanzania to meet her and her son in an effort to get to know their lives and legal situation in Dar es Salaam, and to establish trust.

Now, here online and in this week's new Christian Science Monitor weekly magazine, read the story of Neema's own journey, and see a slideshow of her daily life.