An African guardian angel


In poverty-stricken South Africa, people like Hilda Phetowho try to ease pain and suffering stand out like candlesshining in the dark, writes TAN EE LOO. 

ERADICATING hunger and malnutrition among the South African children is what Hilda Pheto strongly believes in. “You can’t teach when a child is hungry. I know some children come to school because of the feeding scheme where the school provides food but this is not the way it should be,” she says.  

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