Who will be Your hands?
Will You ever send help our way?
Though our palm-thatched house is a stone throw away from the well of knowledge
that is Baraka Baptist Academy,
We thirst in ignorance.
Our earthly step-father will have no part in our education,
... and so we wallow in innumeracy.
“Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink,”
For my brother Tembe and me, education remains a mirage,
… forever within our view, but eternally out of reach.
Will we continue to wither in ignorance?
Who will water our dream of a basic education?
Where will our help come from?
Inspired by Mkala (6) and his brother Tembe (8), who live in Manda village, Kwale district. Mkala's dream is that one day, in his words, he “will
become a human being!” L
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