Family History:

Lameck has got two sisters called Sarah and Grace (Grace Lives at Bethany). His Father died in 2004 and his mother in 2009 of HIV AIDS. When both parents died, the three children were taken to their grandmother in Bunda.  His grandmother died in April 2010. After the funeral all the relatives left and they told them (the three children) to stay at their grandmothers and look after themselves. Three days later, his sister (13 yrs) disappeared from home, neither Lameck nor Grace knew were she went but some people told them that they had seen her talking to some men who were digging out the trench at the street roads. So they assumed that she has been eloped by one of those men. Before her grand mother died she had grown some maize so Lameck and his sister Grace harvested some maize and ate for three days.
The life was really tough as these children did not know what tomorrow would bring and did not have any hope for going to school. Grace having been working as house girl, she knew Bethany and she had been to Bethany when the UHURU Torch visited Bethany in June 2009 because even the villagers came to Bethany to see the TORCH. Therefore, she told her brother that they needed to come to Bethany and explain what has happened to them and see whether Bethany will have mercy on them. They both agreed to sell all the maize that was in the farm so that they can earn some money for bus fare to come to Bethany. They sold the maize for 4000/= Tsh (£2) and used that money to travel to Bethany.  Lameck works very hard and he is settling in the Bethany family.

Report by Eliada Bujiku