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Sanobar, 51, and her husband Asanbai, 52, have six children, and come from a remote village in the Aravan region in southern Kyrgyzstan. To provide a better future for their family, the couple, with their eldest daughter, decided to migrate to the Russian Federation, leaving the five youngest children with a relative to look after them until their return. You can read their full story here