I was born in the
year 2002, now 14 years old. I lived with my mother. I did not know who my
father was and so I knew I had no father. My mother and I faced so many
challenges. We could go for two weeks without food sometimes passed and my
mother started drugs and also took alcohol.
She could come home and beat me severely feeling no mercy.
Sometimes I would escape and sleep in the streets or sleep under people’s cars.
I could be rained on but I had no choice because I couldn’t go home for I had
started fearing my loving mother. Days and weeks passed and the streets were
now my home.
I would go around and borrow people some money so as to get
something to hold my hungry stomach. One day, I decided to go back home and
found my mother talking to an old lady whom I later learned that she was my
grandmother. She took me to her home and stayed with me. I thought I had
reached the place to be but it was worse for I had to walk more than eight
kilometers to school.
One day I come from school and found my grandmother sobbing
and when I asked what was wrong she told me that it was nothing. That night my
cousin came and told me that my mother had kicked the bucket because she was
sick of tuberculosis. I never believed if she died or whether she was buried
for I had not seen her.
Things started getting worse and worse but one way or the
other I got used to them and forgot everything.
In my grandmother’s home, she was poor but she was not poor
in her heart for she kept praying harder and harder for God to help us. One day
as I was coming from school, I found my grandmother happier than before.
My grandmother told me that somebody was wishing to help me
and also educate me. I was indeed hoping for God had answered our prayers and I
could be what I wanted to be. Now I am in Jersken Little Angeles Home, I am
taken care of and I am also fed. I also go to a good
boarding school.
I thank God for this.
They were so good to us, and we were so good to them. We do
everything together. After one year, eleven children were added and were twenty
one children. Because we are so many children, we have two aunties to take care
of us when our mother is not in. And now we are so happy and we now live like a
family of one mother. We are boys and girls.