The cry of an abandoned child

Deborah Retief Memorial Hospital
Deborah Retief Memorial Hospital

Mothers all over the world had an opportunity to celebrate their big day last week Sunday. This is a day in which mothers are particularly honoured by their children and it is dubbed Mothering Sunday.

As for Bontle, (not her real name), this was only a pipe dream. She doesn’t have a mother and a father. Bontle is one of many who have been denied the privilege to celebrate the big day and buy her mother presents.

She doesn’t know her family members too as well as relatives. Yours truly met Bontle at a salon in Mochudi. A beautiful woman indeed in her 30s, she has never worked in her life. She says that she did not get proper education and that she was not raised well. Then she sobs and reveals that she was adopted while still a baby at Deborah Retief Memorial Hospital.

Editor's Comment
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