My name is Leya Nedson, I am 11 years old and I am in standard 4. When I finish school, I want to be a teacher because I want to help children learn how to read and write. I live with my parents.

As a girl when I wake up, I have to help my mother to clean the dishes and draw water at the nearest borehole. Then I have to sweep the house, prepare food if we have it available for breakfast. Then I get ready to go to school.

: I live in a village where there are a lot of old people and children because many young people especially boys/men go to South Africa for work or business. There are also a lot of school dropouts because of poverty.

I pray that I find a sponsor so that I can go to school, and I need school resources like notebooks, pens, and shoes.