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Charity starts at home: How to assist students in need

Meet Milda Vuguza, a student in class 8 who walks for an hour to get home for lunch only to get home and find nothing to eat. With her father deceased and her mother suffering from breast cancer, Milda and her four siblings depend on their sister who dropped out of primary school to work as a house girl so that they can have a dinner of roasted maize and black tea. Despite this, Milda still wants to be a doctor when she grows up.

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