Looking on the positives when life is a struggle

Sometimes life throws things at you that would overwhelm even the most resolute of people, but for a 44-year-old mother of two battling with a sick husband and a salary which cannot purchase food for the family for a month, there is nothing too big that you cannot overcome, once there is life.

For Bonita (not her real name) life has been a struggle from childhood, and now a husband and two sons later it is still a struggle. While she has experienced the best and worst of human beings she is still not ready to throw in the towel.

Counting her blessings – and she said there are many – she pointed to the fact that there is a shelter over their heads; her