Children also adopt trees from their immediate surrounding where they live. We have also designed a children’s activity book wherein children are engaged in a process where they learn with fun.
After discussion with a community group about this practice, a beautiful young mother proudly showed me where she takes herself to sleep with the goats - without a hint of resentment or shame. For her, it’s normal.
Having completed her undergraduate degree in Melbourne, Rosie admits a job in the bush on the other side of the country wasn’t the first job out of university she had envisaged, but one she certainly doesn’t regret taking up.
I think that one of the most important things that I learnt was that poverty may come in all different forms but it comes back to being a lack of access, a concept which should be the centre of all international aid.
