Background
Mavali is a Chiss who made her way to Nar Shadaa as a sort of refuge to not get drafted into the Empire army. Some time after landing planetside, she found herself working with a local street doctor, learning the trade from them as she familiarized herself with the locals and hot spots of the place.
One day as she was wrapping up something, they approached her and said that they were going to go make a house call and that if he doesn't come back, Mavali should go to a building that he marked to gather some "special cargo." As time passed, she assumed the worse and decided to head to the building, a run down apartment block. Once she finds the room that was mentioned and heads in, she doesn't find any cargo that was mentioned, but instead a child. Mavali soon realizes that this kid was the person's child and the cargo that he mentioned.
Some time passed and the two are now basically family as the child helps around the clinic as an assistant, just as Mavali did back then. Mavali eventually came to a conclusion: save up enough credits to get them out of Nar Shadaa and to some place safer, and to try and open up a clinic there.
Motivation
-Caring for the zabrok kid of a friend who passed away.
-Saving up enough credits to get out of Nar Shadaa.