Perspective

The following is a list of housing situations recorded by Mrs. Emma for the scholarship winners in grade 7.  These learners have an academic standing of 70% or above.  They have been selected by their teachers and an organization to have their school fees (outstanding and future), stationary, personal hygiene products, and pocket money paid for all the way through grade 12 as long as they continue to show academic commitment and excellence in school.

-Lives in a shack with her mother and two brothers, mother is a domestic worker

- Lives with both parents and two sisters in a shack in the Havana settlements, mother is a domestic worker and the father is unemployed

-Mother deceased, he lives with grandmother and father who is unemployed and twelve other members of the extended family, house belongs to grandmother

-Lives with both parents and grandmother and five other people in a two bedroom house, all adults are unemployed

-Father passed away, she lives with stepmother and grandmother as well as three other people in grandmother's house, all adults are unemployed

-Lives with mother and stepfather, aunt, and two cousins in a shack in Greenwall Matongo, both parents are unemployed, biological father's whereabouts are unknown

-Lives with mother and stepfather, brother, aunt, and two cousins in a shack in Greenwell both parents do odd jobs (on and off), mother is currently helping out at creche

-Lives with both parents and 12 other members of extended family, two bedroom house, mother is a domestic worker, father is a driver, and the rest are unemployed

-Lives with mother and extended family (9 other people) in a two bedroom house, mother is unemployed

-Lives at grandmother's house with both parents as well as 14 other people, mother is a domestic worker and the father is unemployed, as well as the rest of the people

-Lives in grandmother's house with mother and two siblings, mother is unemployed