BLESSED WITH SUCCESS
Lynette Strydom, I’m writing to partly answer your question about what happens to kids in orphanages (YOU Say, 16 May). Back in the ’60s I was one of those children here in Gauteng. Our place of safety had a mixture of children in need and juvenile delinquents. I was classified as “in need”.
I never finished school, but I have succeeded in life. Most of my skills are self-taught, I worked in the banking sector, then the private sector. I learnt to knit and sew. More recently I have added writing and painting as hobbies. Today I’m a gran and a great-gran.
Many of the children in the home weren’t as blessed though, and I should imagine today they’d stand even less of a chance. Whatever can be done to support a child in need should most certainly be done without hesitation.
MILLY ROSE, EMAIL
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