Challenges for an African Child

Download or read book Challenges for an African Child written by Juma Lukwago and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is called '' Challenges for an African child '' it's a story concerning an African child, it contains a powerful testimony which I have personally gone through my whole life experience since my childhood, you will understand the real meaning of how an African child survives in life regardless of tribe, religion or custom, many parents in Africa give birth to a big number of children of which they cant takecare of in the way they should, the child will grow up in a miserable situation, when its time for going to school, there may not be any facilitation like some money for their breakfast and even lunch, like in my secondary school, the school could not provide lunch to its students, for my case I was not being given money for lunch not even for breakfast. In this book, you will findout how I managed to survive throughout my education, you will know how I survived death in a serious accident and how I tried different businesses and failed. Majority of parents in Africa cannot afford to provide good healthcare to their children, if a child gets sick, he or she wont be taken to the public recognized hospital, the parent will instead go the nearby local clinic with unqualified nurses to buy the cheapest drugs for the sick child, it's a very high risk for the child's health, because of the weak drugs, the child may die, it can be just God's grace for the child to survive. Because of luck of finances, some parents will look for local herbs from the garden, one day I was attacked by malaria and my mother went and picked some local herbs from the garden, she made a full cup for me to take, when I took it, I got well after a few hours. In this book '' challenges for an african child '' you will definitely read and get to know all the hardships an African child goes through and how they narrowly survive as they grow up.