Portia’s mission to provide hope
PORTIA Mmbidi was 14 when her life fell apart. It was 2006. First, her mother died in a bus accident, then her father died shortly afterwards from a combination of TB and a broken heart.
Suddenly, she and her little sister and her older brother were orphans. They soon realised the hard way that all the platitudes from their relatives at the graveside were worthless.
“Your family tell you, they’ll be there for you, but soon they get tired of you,” she says.
The turning point came with her younger sister. One of the uncles offered her money – if she slept with him.
