Life can be quite unfair and miserable, here's a girl who tells her sad story.

l came from a very poor home. My parents, being too old and having the number of children they had could not cater sufficiently for the family. I was the tenth in a family that had twelve children. The available resources were grossly inadequate and we faced so many handicaps. So, I saw it as a great relief when at the age of fourteen I was told to accompany a distant relation whom I had only known as Aunty Melanie to the city.

To say that Aunty...