Lysedie is my name unfortunately I never had a chance to ask my mother why she gave me such a name. But as I grew up and really curious on what the name meant, at least I got to learn that she wished for me to be light! For a young man like me who had been supported by a family ...
The past week saw African countries celebrating the life of a child. SOS Children’s Villages in Swaziland also joined forces with all other partners working in the country in commemorating this day. I took time out to discover who a child is and this does not mean I don’t have...
Just the other day I sat and watched in admiration how the children as siblings at SOS Children’s Villages show so much love towards each other, how they seem to be there for the other and how their protective of their siblings. To think that these children are not biologically...
I am a 27 years old girl, born in Nhlambeni, Manzini. I was told that my birth brightened my parent’s life hence I was named Khanyisile. However sometimes I wonder what happened to that “Light” because I was eventually raised up by my father single handedly. Did I mention...
Each time there is a storm I rejoice not because of the damage it does but because I surely know there is a rainbow coming through. After all I have seen it happen in my own life, after the storm of losing both my parents when I was six years old in 2001...
My name is Terrence Vilakati, from the Joppa area under the Maseyisini Inkhundla. Just like all children we were born in a balanced family, with a mother and a father to take care of us, but it was in July 2000, when one morning we woke up to realize that our mother had fallen very ill, we...
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