Friday, May 1, 2015

Heartbreak of Poverty (3) in South Africa


What's your walk to school like when, everyday, you have to cross one of the poorest parts of South Africa to get to class? Kelina, aged [11], is getting an education in a township in Cape Town, riddled with guns, drugs and violence. How does she see the world on her daily trip to school?
How ever do these children, who manage to walk these corridors of guns, drugs and violence - where apparently 50,000 crimes against them are reported each year - actually learn?  How does Kelina do in school in the midst of terror?
What goes through my mind is I'm scared to walk alone, because they raped a woman in the street. We saw the blood she left afterwards. You have no choice but to see these things.

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