Shenelle – Henderson
“I’m Shenelle and I stay in a bush in a tent in Henderson.
What can we learn of kids, is they’re very humble, loving, they can’t speak for themselves. Ah, they’re just very humble. What’s really sad about what you just asked me is, um… I’ve got an eight year old. Um, I cared for her, did the care of five months. Um… when you have a kid you don’t know what you’ve got till you’ve actually lost it.
What’s really quite sad about what you’re talking about is the kids, is the domestic violence. Um, they really can’t speak for themselves when they want to reach out for help or if there’s problems. Um, put it this way, because I suffer from mental health problems, due to my upbringing. Um, I never had a, how would you say it? A perfect life.
Ah, my parents, as I can go back in my time; too much alcohol and um drugs, um not enough food in the cupboard, um basically back then in my days, it was like the ‘80s, the ‘90s and back then, there was no that smacking policy. Um, but now these days 2000, things are changing. Ah, but yeah going back to my upbringing and looking at how I had my girl, I know I can’t turn back time, but, if I could, but I can’t, but I’ve just got to learn from those mistakes, and um, yeah just soldier on, basically. Yeah.
Well, back in the ‘80s and ‘90s we were pretty much, not so much support that we got now, but back then I wish there were rules, back then because now I look at myself, if we did have those things that we do now, maybe I would be up in the ladder, you know, instead of trying to make my way up. Yeah. Yeah, she’s with my ex-partner. She’s getting looked after. I see her time to time. Um, but it’s, it’s not like that mother-daughter thing that I, yeah I don’t get to see her 24/7. It’s probably once every, I don’t know two, two times every year if I’m lucky.”
