Put Yourself in my Shoes
Who I’m I? My name is Paul. I was born in the rural areas. My parents were not the “well abled” people. We lived in a single room built of iron sheets. I was raised with the mud toys. Never got a thing that I could claim I was bought for. We lived as a poor family. My dad left us while i was still a kid. My mum was a housewife. But after my dad left, she was left to look for a way to get our daily bread. Life was never even close to easy. She moved from one house to another. I started school at the age of ten. My mum had no money at first, so I couldn’t start school at the right age. I wasn’t good with studies, so I kept on pulling the class back. Two years later I dropped out. My mum couldn’t pay my fees anymore. Finding a job was a hard thing for her. She later got ill. She couldn’t get out of the house. She got skinny with each day. There was no money to take her to hospital. No one could employ me. No one wanted to be charged with child labour. My uncles never wanted to do w...