Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Doris's life in an informal settelment

I am Doris and I live I a informal settelment. My house is made from scrap mettle and around here we all as in all our naighbers all share a porta potty as I like to call the their actually called portable toilets 

I wake up freezing in bed with my little sister Lilly and my mom Fiona .  We don't get to see my dad a lot mom says he's away at work but I don't think that's why he's gone. I'm just happy I've got a verry supportive and loving mother . I always here about kids who have mom who doesn't give them enough  support or their mom or dad  is an alcoholic or just abandon them on the street. I am very glad my mom is not one of those . I am also glad my sister and I  get along most of the time. 

We have little food but luckily my mom planted an apple seed manny years ago when there weren't so many shack holding up space  and we have lots of apples when it Apple season. We usely say hi to our neighbors there's a  nice boy my age who lives there. We would always walk down the streets together. His name is Babalo weird name but who am I to judge. We love going down to a school called Elkanah it's an ekspensive school so we don't go there. Actually we don't go to school. Even though our mothers both work very hard but they still can't earn enough money to send us to school . If we're lucky our friend Lola will give us some food over the school wall .

It may sound like a nice place to live from my perspective but it's not there are many dangers for us here like deseises or floods and don't get me started on starvation . I dread my shack catching on fire or burg elders in the night I try to forget the horde things over here and try to have a good life will I'm here and try to stay positive because I believe that if I stay happy so will the world .