Namibia: Robbed of Their Childhood

opinion

His 13-year-old eyes look tired as he stands under a tree waiting for our appointment. Wearing worn-out and torn grey trousers and a blue shirt, being barefoot, the boy nervously fumbles with a plastic tag between his fingers.

Life has been difficult for *Jonny Haingura, a Grade 5 pupil at Ndama Primary School, who takes care of his HIV-positive mother in a small corrugated shack they call home in Ndama, one of Rundu's poorest informal settlements.

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