There are also children who are hyperactive and cannot stay still but are always creating trouble. You won’t realise this until you stay with them an… - Hellen Murshali

Family tracing and unification is one of the hardest things to do, but we engage the Red Cross, which has the capacity to cross borders. We try as much as possible to get the information updated regularly so that the child can be relocated when he or she grows up.

We are not getting assistance from the government and, in fact, some of the kids are brought here by the government because the facility they have always takes older children from 5 years of age and up, but we often get 10 newly born babies.

An eye-opener, really. I don’t know if people realise the fragility of children of this nature because before coming here, perhaps we knew enough about orphans. If both your parents die, the extended family looks after you, but if they are unwilling, the government has to take care of you.