Am 12 years and in P.6

Single orphan

We leave in a family of three children and our mother. Our father died when I was 8years. He had sold all what he had to save his life but God did not make it for us.

We always struggle with our mother in order to get school fees and other requirements. We live in a muddy house. Due to the death of our father, our mother started drinking alcohol. This makes life hard for us in that  every money we get she drinks it.  We collect materials from the elephant grass and make brooms . We we struggle hard to take the brooms to market for fees, she takes the larges part of the money we earn after selling brooms to drinking alcohol; leaving us with no money for fees and even our mother doesn’t work for she is always having hang over.

The mother is likely to be a victim of HIV where she is mostly likely to leave these children as the father left. Leaving them helpless in a temporary house without schooling if God don’t help.

My sister was impregnated with one of the men our mother brought home.

I dislike getting married minus education at a young age, I like studying and I like staying at school because I get lunch from there with new company ( People) who don’t take alcohol.

My mother has no money to pay for me school fees. My mother brings shame and my friends provoke me about my mother’s drunkenness status. My elder sister is now  pregnant because my mother used her as a bait for alcohol; she drunk from a man. Am scared if I don’t go to school, I will get HIV and pregnant. I am saved now and I have hope in Christ that He will help me not to be like the

My ambition is to be a nurse to save my people like my father’s life and get money to help people like me.

I have learnt to read and write from school and to speak English.

I have become born again and I see the goodness of the lord and I have put my hope in him. I have made new important friends. I have learnt to pray to God than trusting others.

I have learnt to do work to earn a living instead of bagging.

I have learnt that life without Christ is nothing. And that drinking alcohol is very bad. I have learnt to abstain and that HIV is real and kills.