Livingstone — SUN International Hotel management has adopted Edith Ngoma, the grade eight pupil of Livingstone's Maramba Basic School, who wished she had not been born due to family problems.

And 34-year-old Susan Syamabenga, Edith's mother, who had been a commercial sex worker, was yesterday immediately offered a job as a room attendant at Sun Hotel.

Sun International human resource manager Paulman Chungu yesterday visited the school and home of Edith and met with her mother, who explained how difficult it was for her to provide for the basic needs of her two children who needed to be sent to school.

Edith told The Post last week that she wished she had not been born because of the numerous problems that had afflicted her in her childhood.

And Sun International Hotel, after reading the story which appeared in The Saturday Post and establishing the family's plight, decided to adopt Edith and offer her mother a job, in an effort to keep her away from prostitution. Syamabenga, who is a widow of Livingstone's Libuyu Compound, narrated that she had found it extremely difficult to send her two children to school.

She also disclosed that she ended up involved in prostitution as a way of raising money to send Edith to school.

Syamabenga said the move by Sun International to offer her a job was a blessing from God.