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BOY HAS CLASSROOM TO CALL HOME

15/07/2017 10:10:00 BY BONISILE MAKHUBU

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MBABANE – School has become home for orphaned 12-year-old *Mpho as he learns during the day and sleeps in a classroom during the night.

The pre-teen has been doing this for three weeks now after he was allegedly ejected from the Remah orphanage where he lived and grew up for over a decade now.

Currently, he has nowhere to call home except for St Paul’s Primary School where he is doing Grade Four.
His plight started when digital storage devices belonging to one child from outside the orphanage landed in his hands for a few days.
The other boy’s parent is said to have not taken kindly to this as he was convinced that Mpho had stolen the gadgets and decided to approach the orphanage to get them back.

“He went to the orphanage and reported that Mpho stole the device. I am not sure how this was handled because it resulted in the boy being chucked out of the orphanage,” said a source close to the matter.

Intervention

The source said after that, Mpho had nowhere to stay, despite having approached some Social Welfare officers from Manzini for intervention.
Swazi News gathered that the boy was spotted by one person at the school who, upon talking to him, made an arrangement that he sleep in one of the classrooms where he would wake up in the morning and take a bath in the school ablutions before going to class.
“This went on and on until some pupils noticed and informed their parents about it. One parent then made attempts to raise the matter with relevant institutions,” said the insider.

The adult insider, who has had an interview with Mpho, revealed that the boy denied to have stolen the gadgets but insisted that the other boy had lent them to him and they were supposed to be returned at a later stage.
“When I asked what he was doing with them he said he would watch movies from them at home (orphanage) with the other children who live there,” according to the insider.