SHYANN Brown looks forward to going to school, not because of the education it offers, but because it is the place that she sometimes gets her only meal for the day.
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| This two-room brick house, board kitchen and small yard is home to Imogene Lawrence and her children. |
'Some nights we don't get dinner, miss,' the soft-spoken child said. 'Lots of nights we go to our bed without dinner. But some nights my mother cook chicken back and dumpling, miss. I like it because it is what she has, miss.' Shyann is one of nine children for her mother, the youngest being six and the eldest, 23.
And with her eldest brother from the family home recently, the two-room brick house which the family occupies in Gibraltar, St Ann, is still cramped with three girls, five boys and their mother. All the boys sleep on a single bed in one of the rooms and the four females sleep on the double bed in the other. But even at 11, Shyann believes that her mother is trying her best under the circumstances. Read more:
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