As you all know I've been at a children's home in South Africa and I've already mentioned how amazing these children are and how I bombard them with hugs and kisses as a lot of them have never been given the love and attention they need and crave.
As most of you, if not all of you also know I work in a nursery. We nursery nurses work so closely with children every day, caring for them, loving them, playing with them and it's impossible not to build special bonds and love them. I'm not a mother but if I feel the way I do about the children I look after I can't begin to imagine how a mother must feel when she brings her own baby into the world, which is then why I find it so hard to understand why a mother who has carried her very own child for nine whole months, who is a part of her abandons her child for the man who raped her child or the father who abuses his own daughter, his precious little girl. It's heartbreaking and makes me sick to my stomach.
The people who are supposed to care and love these children more than anyone in the world let them down, the people who these children should trust and feel comforted the most by let them down. I only hope that the little amount of time I have spent with these children ... in fact, any child, anywhere .. has been beneficial for them.
Luckily, these kids are now in a much better place, have a BRIGHTER future ahead of them and are surrounded by people who do LOVE and CHERISH them.
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