Monday 27 August 2012

Stabbing

Hope and Steph witnessed on of their Grade 9's being stabbed at school today. Both of them are extremely upset and we're all shaken. I don't really know anything about what happened, how it came to happen or who started it. Just that somewhere in Soweto there is a terrified kid who ran off with a knife wound in his neck.

It's a horrifying reminder of what life out here is like for these kids. Of how much it hurts that we're leaving them, and that there's nothing we can do to help them. No matter how much you want to bundle them all up and pull them out of here with you, there's nothing that can be done.

1 comment:

  1. Anna, just because you can't make their lives perfect does NOT mean that you can do nothing. Look what you have already done, and determine to work to raise awareness and funds for Warwick in Africa when you get back. And count me in if you want help with fundraising etc. Despairing of what the world is coming to is for oldies like me; you younger ones must continue to believe. And continue to show your kids that they can succeed. Forza Anna !

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