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Friday, November 14, 2008

Namanya Olivia's Story

Namanya olivia lives at a village called Bakka of Wakiso district.She is 12 years of Age and attends school at christian friends academy in the fourth grade.
Her favorite subject is science Her favorite food is matooke (bananas) and pea nuts.
Her favorite game is Netball
Her house chores are cooking, carrying water and digging. She lives with the Aunt called betty, a single mother and a teacher at christian friend's academy.
Olivia has two sibblings a boy and girl at home but not brother or sister. Olivia's mother lives at a village called Bukomero 50 miles from Bakka and a single mother abandoned
BY husband olivia's father. The mother is a peasant farmer who could not give health care, education and Parental care to her child because most of the time she was away from home working for food by digging other
people's fields.

The reasons for the disappearing of Olivia's father are not yet known but thought to be inability to care and
meet the needs of the family, so like that he left saying he is gone for the work and never came back. Ever since then
no one knows whether the father died or lives some where else. The man left the child when she had not yet gone to school.
When the AUnt sister to the father realized the situation at Olivia's former home, she picked her to Bakka and enrolled her at christian friend's academy. At home they own a small garden where they grow cones,beans, and cassava to sustain their lives on. Olivia wakes up in the morning at 6:00 am to prepare her self for school and leave home at 7:00am, to come back 4pm when she does her house help work
She sleeps normally at 9pm after doing her class home work.

1 comment:

mreg said...

These are touching stories. Mary