Terwyl ander kinders elke oggend vir skool regmaak, het \u2019n 12-jarige seun van Avianpark nie di\u00e9 voorreg nie.<\/p>\n
Geraldo weet nie hoe die binnekant van \u2019n klaskamer lyk nie omdat hy nog nooit die geleentheid gehad het om skool toe te gaan nie.<\/p>\n
Dit blyk sy geboorte is nooit deur sy ma geregistreer nie, en dit het veroorsaak dat hy nie soos ander kinders grootgeword het nie. Dit is ook waarom Geraldo nie \u2019n amptelike van het nie. <\/p>\n
Louis Mpinda, Geraldo se oupa aan sy vaderskant, veg nou om vir sy kleinseun \u2019n normale lewe te gee, en \u2019n kans om skool toe te gaan. Maar hiervoor benodig Geraldo \u2019n geboortesertifikaat. <\/p>\n
Mpinda en sy vrou het Geraldo van kleins af grootgemaak. \u201cHy is my klein\u00adkind en het van babatyd by ons gebly. My vrou is so \u2019n paar jaar gelede oorlede en ek het toe alleen na hom gekyk,\u201d s\u00ea hy. Mpinda s\u00ea dit is sy hartewens om sy kleinkind te sien skoolgaan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Volgens hom weet hy nie presies wat die probleem is nie, maar s\u00ea sy kleinseun se ma het nooit sy geboorte geregistreer nie.<\/p>\n
Volgens wat hy n\u00e1 \u2019n ingewikkelde soektog kon uitvind, is dat Geraldo se ma ook sonder dokumentasie is.<\/p>\n
Mpinda s\u00ea hy het vir Geraldo se ma ges\u00ea sy moet haar storie by \u201cBinnelandse Sake gaan vertel\u201d sodat hulle haar kan help en ook haar seun, maar s\u00ea Geraldo se ma het nooit weer die moeite gedoen om haar seun te help nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk het al \u2019n maatskaplike werker genader en gevra wat ek kan doen en sy het vir my ges\u00ea die ma moet opgespoor word en haar geboorte moet geregistreer word sodat die kind se geboorte opgegee kan word.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mpinda s\u00ea oor die jare het dit hom baie gepla, want sy kleinseun wou by hom weet wanneer hy ook skool toe kan gaan.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy vrees is dat hy nou by bendes betrokke gaan raak, want op die oomblik het hy nie regtig \u2019n toekoms nie, want jy kan niks hier buite doen sonder \u2019n skool nie,\u201d s\u00ea Mpinda. \u201cEk het destyds vir hulle gevra of sy pa nie die geboorte kan regis\u00adtreer nie omdat hy \u2019n nie \u2019n identi\u00adteits\u00ad\u00addokument het nie en hulle het ges\u00ea sy ma moet dit doen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mpinda s\u00ea hy het selfs die kliniek genader vir hulp, maar volgens hom het hulle nooit na hom toe teruggekom nie. Hy s\u00ea hy doen sy bes om te verseker dat sy kleinkind nie uit voel nie, maar s\u00ea hy kan net soveel doen.<\/p>\n
\u201cHy kan n\u00earens gaan sonder \u2019n geboortesertifikaat nie, hy weet nie hoe dit voel om op skooluitstappies saam met skoolmaatjies te gaan nie. Hy ken nie die gevoel van jou eerste dag van skool nie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mpinda s\u00ea hy sorg vir sy kleinkind en is dankbaar dat Geraldo nog nooit siek geword het nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cToe my vrou sterf toe is dit nou net ek alleen. Geraldo het \u2019n pa en ma, maar hulle werk nie en gebruik dwelms. So, hy verkies om by my te wees. Ek is nou sy ma, pa, oupa en ouma.\u201d Mpinda werk nie op die oomblik nie en s\u00ea hy is afgel\u00ea weens gesondheidsredes.<\/p>\n
Belangrikheid van geboortesertifikaat<\/strong><\/p>\n Volgens die Verenigde Nasies se webtuiste het elke kind die reg op \u2019n wettige identiteit, maar \u2019n kwart van kinders wat vandag gebore word, bestaan nie \u201camptelik\u201d nie.<\/p>\n \u201cHierdie kinders word ontneem van geboortesertifikate \u2013 hul eerste wettige bewys van identiteit \u2013 bloot omdat hul ouers dit nie kan bekostig nie, dit nie kan bereik nie, of \u2019n ander hindernis ondervind om oor registrasiedienste te leer en toegang te verkry. Sonder \u2019n geboortesertifikaat is kinders onsigbaar vir hul regerings. Dit beteken dat hulle noodsaaklike programme \u2013 soos kinderbeskerming, gesondheidsorg en onderwys \u2013 kan misloop wat help om hul mees fundamentele regte te verseker\u201d.\u00a0Standard<\/em>\u00a0het Kindersorg gekontak om uit te vind of hulle Mpinda kan help. Mpinda het \u2019n afspraak vir Donderdag 17 Maart.\u00a0Standard<\/em>\u00a0sal lesers op hoogte hou oor enige verwikkelinge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Terwyl ander kinders elke oggend vir skool regmaak, het \u2019n 12-jarige seun van Avianpark nie di\u00e9 voorreg 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