Children have a right to education and safe home environment.
I have never thought in my life I would be here writing what I'm suffering from with my kid's.... I am lost and I don't know where to go, what to do nor how to do it. If it's not by doing this, then I'm sure I will get more advise and support from starting here so I can know how to move forward. I'm a Mother and I am suffering a lot and I have no family to run to for help not even sibling's.
I need your help to help my kid's get a letter from their School Gladies King in Mtata, Eastern Cape. Their father is a drug addict that lost his job and now living with his Mom, I work at a call center here in Cape Town, sales department for an USA based company so you can already gather that I earn peanuts that cannot bearly sustain me the entire month.
In February I spoke with a Teacher to assist me to get a letter from the School that states my children are highly disadvantaged financially as I am not able to pay fees, buy text books and uniform on my own, they don't get social grant because I do not stay with them they are in the care of their Grandmother who is the Mother to their father. They could not open schools this year as they didn't have uniform and stationary. In December I got paid 4k and my rent is 2.5k so it's just a messy situation that I'm living and I don't want to lie dying seem to be fair but I want to exhaust all options to help my kids to be educated.
The Teacher's did write the letter and gave it to the School Principal of Gladies King to sign so I can recieve it via email but till this date my efforts of making that communication with the School has failed. Last month ku kid's were told they will be chased out of school because they cannot pay the fees and my Daughter called me and she gave me her class Teacher's number whom I told everything and how I need the letter to help my kid's because I want to apply for Back Buddy funding so the money can go direct to their fee's, I want to apply for social grant that will also assist with their stationary, texts Book's and uniform.
The principal of Gladies King has not signed out the letter and I haven't received the letter and now it's stressing me as I'm in and out of hospital bceuase I can't cope. All I need is the letter, school report's so I can get my kid's funding, they are extremely smart and they deserve to be stress free, you should hear the frustration when they are told to go home during school hours cause they don't have the money for fees, how my Son cannot do his homework cause he does not have texts Book's and how they cannot play sport because they don't have soccer boots.
As a parent I'm a failure because I cannot provide them with the basic needs that their father used to do when he was not using drugs, I regret stating in an Abusive marriage for 11 yrs because our elder Son is a diagnosed genius and now suffering from severe depression and brain epilepsy, my Daughter is extremely smart she gets awards and now will reperwsent the very same school to Districts spots event for Net Ball and High Jump and my last nor is drawing violence in a family picture and I thought living was gonna be better for them but now they are suffering cause of Schools fees and embarrassement of being chased out of class and not having text Book's.
Why do they have to suffer? Why do I have to suffer? We don't do drug's, all I wanted was to have my own family as I don't but I couldn't handle it anymore and his family are on his side as they bribed all charges I opened against him. My Daughter told me their Daddy burned their school reports and took their birth certificates and told them he will human traffic them. Mtata Law is for the rich not the victims, I have been fighting a war that never ends. I need help to help my kid's so I can get them to be with me, I need them and they need me.
Principal of Gladies King sign the letter and send it to me please to help my kid's to be at least normal.
Zimasa Mgengo Contact the author of the petition