The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)

A girl (Lissa Balera) gets a job selling a government newspaper and battles bullies who want her to quit. The Sun is a newspaper, and the girl is a crippled girl living on the streets of Senegal in poverty with her blind grandmother. The film is basically a parable of her fortitude and the adversity she faces, with inspiring gestures of solidarity and thought-provoking elements of strife - even her enemies are sympathetic in the sense that they, too, struggle with poverty.