My name is Lidia, (I was) born in 1996 to parents well known as Samwel and Sophia. I’m the sixth born in the family of nine children and third out of five girls. My father happened to be polygamous where by my mother was the second wife. We were loved by our father at the same time hated by our step mother.
On 5/14/2003 my loved father passed away and all went wrong. Life started to be so hard and I personally would have nightmares. My mother had no business and this made her have a lot of difficulties in taking care of us. The life was so difficult that forced her to go to people looking for work. She would work the all day but without payment.
My siblings and I suffered physically and emotionally just because of lack of basic needs such as food, clothes and shelter. Our house had holes all over that when it happened to have rain then everything would become water. Time reached that I couldn’t go on with my education because of lack of school fees. I wished the ground to open and swallow as alive so as to escape all these.
My step-mother and our neighbors would give us a lot of child work in the absence of my mother, but when it was time for eating, surely it was bad. They could chase us away or send us to far away so that they would feast in our absence. They even nicknamed us dogs, cats and this was hurting me. As the saying goes: “One cannot choose where to be born,” I knew that was our fate and we could not change it.
There were times when we would go to the grave were my Dad was buried and cry thinking that he would rise again just to see all the sufferings we were undergoing. I lived to regret why my Dad died at that time.
When I joined GGCC in 2008 it was the happiest moment in my life. I thank God that am living in a loving environment where am taught the word of God. I look forward to getting a good job and making a big change in my family and even in my village. I am better off, for this far he is my Ebenezer.
