For forty-seven-year-old Mortlyn Benjamin it is certainly a ‘hard knock life’ and while she may have given up hope of ever finding betterment for herself, she has a burning desire for her children to experience what it is “to live a better life than this.”

Benjamin is a single mother of eight children, six of whom are minors between the ages of 15 and eight. Her eldest children are aged 24 and 20 and they are already fending for themselves, but the jobs they have managed to secure are not …..