By the age of 11, in 2007, Phiona was her country's junior chess champion and at 15, her country's national champion. Robert introduced Phiona to the game of chess and within months he discovered her immense talent. One day in 2005, while desperately searching for food, Phiona followed her brother to a mission church where she met Robert Katende, another child of the Ugandan slums, who works for an American organization that offers relief and religion through sports. Phiona Mutesi is also one of the top chess players in the world. Phiona has been in and out of school her whole life because her mother cannot afford to send her, so she is only now learning to read and write. She sleeps in a decrepit mud hut with her mother and four siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Phiona Mutesi, is a 15-year-old girl born and raised in a miserable slum called Katwe in Kampala, Uganda.
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