Malkia , who was 16, had lost her father to AIDS three years previously.Her mother had died a year later,leaving  Malkia and five  siblings behind . During the period of mourning after her  mother's death, relatives seized their household goods, including bedding, cars , utensils and furnitures.The children then moved to their grandmother 's house.Life with their grandmother was not easy. And Malkia ' s brother, Collins, who was 14 , decided to go to his maternal grandmother 's home where life was not any better. There was little food. He was able to secure employment as a herdsboy for