I am so heartbroken today because I found out that one of our students, Vicent, died on Wednesday. His father had many women and dumped his mother. In order to make end meet to support her children she began fishing and selling cooked fish in the community. She sent Vicent out alone in the boat on Lake Victoria on Wednesday to fish because she had too many other things to attend to. He's 9. P4. He didn't return and they just thought he was lost. They found his body yesterday. All the upperclass children attended the burial today.
It shouldn't have to be this way. 9 year olds shouldn't have to die finding food and means for the family. I shouldn't see 5 year olds playing with knives that are bigger than anything I would ever handle because they must learn how to cook now in case their parents die or are not able to provide enough care. I shouldn't have to take care of 300 wounds a day because elemnetary school children were farming and got cut by hoes and machetes. There shouldn't be 5 year old boys that come to by and motion for my to fix their split thumb because a boda boda and a bicylcle carrier ran him off the road because he is too small.
And Vicent should still be alive drawing what he dreams of being and singing If You're Happy and You Know it in my class.
Please pray for his family and our school.
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