Thank you for your concern and thanks for caring. I am 20 years old and I am living with my siblings. I live in The Gambia in West Africa, in a town called Brikama. I am living as an orphan with my 2 little siblings. Since I lost both my parents, we are definitely not living in our own compound but kept in someone’s home, suffering because the person never makes us happy. There is no love or care for us. He always beats my siblings for unnecessary things. They never give us food, and we lack food for survival and daily needs. We starve a lot almost every day. We never have good shelter. I am the elder son of my family. I used to go to a place where bread is made and beg for dry bread so that we could eat. That dry bread gave us cholera, and we are never strong. Sometimes I go to the bush to look for firewood and sell it in order to get good food so that we can survive. I am a young man full of hope.





