Blighted hopes
For two years before starting Cece Primary School, I worked as a volunteer at an orphanage in Nimule. I got to know, and became very attached to, quite a few of the children there. Amongst these was Anzo. When I knew him, Anzo was a bright young boy who was doing very well at primary school and was keen to work with livestock when he grew up. Occasionally people gave him animals to care for, which he did very carefully. I particularly remember the time when he was given some rabbits, which quickly became a large number of rabbits. I was reminded of a certain episode of Father Ted. He built housing for them out of bricks and mud and did his best to look after them properly. He had no adult assistance and within a few months they all caught some disease and died. In 2016 the orphanage moved to Uganda due to the spread of the civil war in the direction of Nimule and I lost contact until recently. Anzo came back to Nimule at 18 years old...