Informal settlement

A day in the life and home of a child in a informal settlement

My name is James. I live in cape town. When i stand up in the morning it is so cold. Live in a shack. I have a metal shack. I have a sola system in my house. 

I cook on a gas bottle. I wash my self which a bucket. We do not have pipes that take our water away. We do not have a loot of privacy because we are so on top one another. It is not so safe because our doors are not so hard as all the another. In 2007 there were 3.3 million people in shacks. I got up this morning and it was very cold. I went to school and there was a big flood and I hade to wake  through the river.

 In the schools there were 55 children in a classroom. It was not easy to get the teachers attention.My dad is blind. When he needs to go to the hospital we can only go at 5 a clock. In the morning I hade to go to school there was water dripping down the wall.

The one morning there was the biggest fire i have ever seen in my live. It was so sad to see all the houses on fire. It was 5 houses a way from our house.

We have a garden on the side of the house. We have a fire prove house which have sand bags on the sides. The roof is very strong it is so strong that we can put one more house on the top.