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I've found joy in raising 15 kids on my own

Tracey Kadada Maganga taken on 17th February 2017.

The month of love, commonly celebrates couples but it should also honor men and women who find the courage to love after being hurt. Abandoned by her mother as an infant neglected by the father Tracey Kadada took all the hurt and bitterness and did something good. She adopted not of one or two but 13 children.

Closure, has helped Tracey smile even laugh as she narrates the genesis of her scar: "I was deserted by my mother at only three months and my dad did not like me. He took me to boarding school at only 7 years not because he could not bring me up but because he wanted to have a nice time with his girlfriends."

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