Informal settlement

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT

It is morning.I woke up cold and tired on the wet floor from yesterday’s powerful rain.I had to spend the dark night scooping dirty big blobs of  mud.No cozy blankets,No proper pillows.My parents died from ebola one year ago and since then I’ve being taking care of my 2 brothers and my 2 sisters.It’s very difficult.First thing that I did was to make breakfast.Usually I  don’t have enough food so every morning I go to our caring neighbor’s house to beg for food.They don’t usually give me  tasty or a lot of food but is enough for my siblings and I.After breakfast we went straight to  school without showering because every morning the line to get the water is very long and if we wait we can probably be late.We have to take the long way to go to school since shortest way there is smelly litter, dead things everywhere and large mud puddles and without shoes is very dangerous.

My youngest sister is very sick.So she can’t go to school.I left at our caring neighbors and they will take her to the hospital.Our school is very dirty and small.There are only two classrooms and me and my siblings were in the same class.

When we go to school we have no bags, no textbooks since we don’t have enough money to afford school equipment.Our school also has very little equipment and everyday I have to share textbooks with my 8 colleges. Today I’m very stressed and worried about my sister since she is sick.Today we had a spelling test and the words that we had to spell I did not know.In the two classes there are about 56 kids and we sit packed together and its very easy to cheat and thats what I did.There are only 2 teachers in our school, they get paid very little salary and because of that sometimes they treat us in a very rude way.

After school I went to see my sister in the hospital.I told my second older sibling to lead my other siblings home.I hope they went home safely .The hospital is very poor and when I got 
there the line was still huge.I waited 3 hours to go see my sister.Unfortunetly She has a very bad disease and we don’t have enough money to afford the treatment.I wish nothing like this would happened,I wish we lived in a better place.Now every day I had to take care of my sister.I couldn’t go to school.

We need more doctors, but we also need waste services.Litter is everywhere in our township and 61% is sick or has very bad diseases.When it rains it floods and our houses get washed away or full of mud.We need running water because we can’t stay in a long line every single day there for a long time. Sometimes, people don’t get to shower and spend days and days dirty and thirsty leading to death.Our life here is terrible and very challenging but I’m grateful that were  are at least alive and we have a small roof over our heads.