Sadness, frustration and a worried community

Everyone at Vistarus have been burdened with heavy hearts for a little boy, William, who’s parents are addicts and could not face staying clean for too long and decided to take their son and live under a bridge where they had the freedom to drink and use again. With no food, little warmth and a dangerous and busy road in front of him, he kept coming back to the Mission but his mother always came to take him back to the bridge.

The shacks under the bridge where some choose to stay.

Although he came back with his father for the weekend of the big storm we had in Port Elizabeth, we learnt that they were gone in the early hours of the morning again.