Crying For Help

But to the Obonetse family, which has been unfortunate on two occasions, joy and happiness from birth has been scarce. "It all started when I gave birth to Maikano in 1992. He was born handicapped.

He could not walk or do anything that a normal child would do. In 1994, I gave birth to another child, Dimpho who had the same condition as Maikano. My two babies cannot walk. They cannot speak but they understand when someone talks to them. Their knees are always sore due to the dry soil that they crawl on," said Kgotsong Obonetse, the mother of the two boys. She explained that her two boys only crawl, though one is 18 and the other is 16.She said to make matters worse, the father of the boys is admitted at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital. She explained that her husband fell sick in Francistown where he had gone to seek employment after being fired from the BCL mine.