Showing posts with label Imformal Settelments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imformal Settelments. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
A day in the life and home of a child in an informal settlement
I am Lulu Bonga and 10 years old and have 5 sisters. I am living in a shack with my 3 sisters I wake up and there is no food in the cupboards for breakfast. My parents are struggling to can't a good job to feed us.So I go to school with an empty tummy.I walk about 4km to get to school and on the way my shoes get damaged but now they have build a path for us so we can walk through it .When I got there it's so crowded,there aren't enough chairs and we share pencils. it's really cramped and hard,some even sit on the floor or on buckets I could not focus or write properly. But at the end of the day government had provided food us.The next day I did not want to go to school because I had no shoes and it was wet and cold,but outside the window I saw little children playing in the rubbish. But they can get diseases and I felt sorry. So I went to them and asked them to get out It took a while but they got out. a few days later I felt sick and a mouth later my mother was sick I thought the sickness had speared since we all live on top of each other. But on the 2th of June there was a cloudburst and my sister Uma who was 5 years old was out there playing, as it was rainy she was trying to get out but she could not walk out so easily.The flood was getting heavier and Uma was drowning and I went out to save her but I couldn't swim and I grabbed her hand I was so terrified,afraid,scared and alarmed but I could not hold on any longer. I thought it was time for me to leave this world but as long as I knew my family,the Bonga family was safe,well fead and care-free as it was time for me sister and I to go.
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