Albino mother wallows in poverty – The Monitor

Name of article: Albino mother wallows in poverty

Name of journalist: Calistus Kolantsho

Name of publication: The Monitor

Date: 11 May 2011

Country: Botswana

Theme: Poverty

Skills: Sources

Genre: News

GEM classification: Gender aware

Description

Botshabelo north is one of the poorest locations in the copper mining town of Selibe Phikwe. It is home to 28 year old Mpho Ditshotlo, whose house is just a stone’s throw away from the busy BCL Mine.

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 to her second born and in 2010 she gave birth to her third child. “I was very fortunate to get assistance from the council social workers but they are not catering for my children.The council is also not providing me clothes,” she says.

Download : Botshabelo north is one of the poorest locations in the copper mining town of Selibe Phikwe.