A Mother’s Love, Like No Other
My prayer is that we can always afford to take care of our children and provide them with everything they want. I always feel happy to have my children around, see them play with their fellow children, eat together, go to church and praying together before we go to bed. As a mother, I feel so good when I wake up in the morning and see all my children around, one is sweeping the floor, the other one is coming back from fetching water and that last born is walking around the ho
Earning a Living at Age 7
When you are child, raised in a child-headed family, there are no age limits that prevent you from working to provide for your family. You learn how to collect firewood at 5am, getting enough for home use and enough to sell to sustain a living. It's not like adults who work according to the law or contract terms. They get specific days off work and holidays to spend with friends and family. People take vacations and travel away for refreshment and refilling. Under work contr
Sleeping in the cemetery
'I don’t even have a place that I call home' This is Part 3 in a series to create awareness about orphans in Tanzania. Honorina Honorati tells the story of a homeless child in Tanzania. I am so happy for other people that during the night they will have to close the door and sleep, most of you might have more than one door, you have a main gate, a seating room door and a bed room door. Others have an electric fence, security guard, dog and camera all over the premises to keep
