Albino mother wallows in poverty

The young woman lives with her three children in a yard with three one-roomed mud huts. Rising from the fire where she is cooking lunch, Ditshotlo quickly ushers The Monitor team to a shade, where her mother joins us.

Ditshotlo starts off by saying that she is unemployed and lives in difficult conditions. She explains that she dropped out of school at Form Three in 2003 due to pregnancy.Her first child was born in 2001. In 2003 she gave birth to her second born and in 2010 she gave birth to her third child. "I was fortunate to get assistance from the council social workers but they are not catering for my children. The council is also not providing me with clothes," she says.