Lehakwe's Blog

    A day in the life and home of a child in an informal settlement  Hi my name is Vuyo I am ten years old and I live in an informal settlement.My dad left us when I was four which left my mom with nothing.I have two brothers and sisters my mom doesn’t have a lot of money so she can’t afford shoes for us.I struggle to read because we don’t have library’s at school so I can’t learn.I don’t have a lot of stationary to work at school with and sometimes I don’t even have lunch to school, which distracts me very much in class.My brothers and sisters all have a flu I am very scared and sad because my sister Babalwa died yesterday from malaria. I  had to do my homework in a dark house  It is hard for me to do my homework, so I always have to go to a street lamp I wish we had electricity . My life would be easier if my mom code get a job so she can provide food for us to eat.It is not nice when I see other children eating food and I don’t have any food.I h...

Hi my name is Gladys and yesterday will everyone was in the classroom a man with knickerbockers and stockings on his legs came inside.His name is Mr Raymond I got really frightened because of the sound of his heavy deep voice. He is a singing inspector he told us all sing the doh ray me song.Then he started to call people up to sing he called Benny and Charles first it sounded so terrible but Mr R called them idiots. He called irs Armstrong and I third to sing we were so nervous.Not a single word  came out irs mouth.He called them the deaf and the dum I was furious in the inside I wanted to pound him to the ground or send him and his meanness to a gail sel. Mr R is one of most hatefulest person I’ve ever met he has no feelings for others.Then he called Winnie and I up and he said we must help the paralysed mute. I wished he would get fired and never come again.