• Fatou Ka is holding her daughter Dnadna's footprints, inked at birth.
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  • When Dnadna was born in 1996 at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Fatou was alone in NY, not gainfully employed and unable to care for her daughter. She sent Dnadna to Senegal to live with her father.
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  • Fatou earned citizenship in 1999 and has since become a Certified Nursing Assistant. Despite these accomplishments, Fatou has been encountering immense difficulties in bringing her daughter back to the US.
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  • The US embassy in Senegal does not believe that Dnadna is Fatou's daughter and will not give Dnadna a passport.
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  • To no avail, Fatou has supplied birth pictures, copies of the footprints, and certified copies of the birth certificate.
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  • NEW YORK, NY