BRAD HORN/Nevada Appeal Chelsea Kivi, 9, reads the letter Wednesday she received from Adama Ba, a 14-year-old girl living in Burkina Faso, a small country in Western Africa. Mary Covington's fourth-grade students at Mark Twain Elementary School are penpals with a school in Burkina Faso.

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Where in the world is Burkina Faso?

• By ncs-import
• April 5, 2006