Tembo Family

The Tembo family stays in Highfield. They have three children, out of the three children they are only staying with one, the other one ran away from home while the other one is looking after their grandmother in Chegutu. The grandmother succumbed to a stroke. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tembo do not go to work. […]

Thabo (17)

My name is Thabo I am 17 years old. I went to school up to Grade 4, I could not proceed because my mother could not afford school fees. My father had died. I was staying with my mother until she decided to leave for Mozoe where she went to sell her wares. She did […]

Kundai (15)

My name is Kundai, I live in Epworth. My parents went to South Africa in 2014.  I look after my two siblings, my grandmother, and myself. Our parents left us in the custody of our relatives who however told us that they could not look after us anymore. I took my siblings to our parents’ […]

Nomsa (15)

Nomsa is a 15-year-old girl. Her father died when she was one-year-old. Her mother left her with her grandmother around that time. Nomsa grew up living with her grandmother in Epworth. her mother only visited once since the time she left her as a baby. Her situation became worse when her grandmother died leaving her […]

Memory (14)

Memory is 14 years-old. Her parents separated when she was 12, her mother left her in her father’s custody before the father left her alone at a house they were renting. That is when life became even tougher for Memory. She stopped going to school, she was in Grade 6 and could not proceed to […]

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