Zambia: Frida's Story

"When I was little my mother didn't have a job, so my uncle took me in and sent me to school, but before my second grade he died. I was then passed on to my mother’s sister. But my auntie couldn't afford to send me and her own children to school so I stayed home and did the housework. Not long after I had moved in, auntie got very sick and died. It was too much for me to bear. My mom decided to have me live with her because no one else would. I didn’t know my father, but my mother told me he died a long time ago." Frida is an orphan living at the Anglican Children's Project, Lusaka, Zambia. This is her story.