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Eighteen-year-old Rashema Melson has been living in Washington DC's largest homeless shelter with her mother and two siblings for the past six years. Her father was murdered when she was a child. Next week, Rashema will be heading to her student accommodation at Georgetown University. She joins the freshmen Class of 2018, on a full scholarship. Accompanied by one of her favourite songs, Carly Patterson's Here I Am, she told us how she managed it. (Photo: Rashema Melson, raised in a homeless shelter but heading to college)