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Zachery misses family

Zachery, 10, is having a good day because he’s meeting his sister and brother and going to a festival with them and their mother.

Usually his siblings stay with their dad while Zachery and his mother live at a shelter. A third brother lives at a foster home. Zachery’s mother has been drug free for two years and he hopes that soon they can have their own place.

At the festival all the children get their faces painted to look like wild animals.© Kim Naylor/WCPF

“The worst thing about being homeless is I can’t play football and that people at the shelter steal our food. When we moved in, we bought lots of food, but when we came back, it was gone. Now I’m worried that people will take my stuff. I also worry when I can’t be with my brother Desmond to protect him when kids at school start hitting him.”

Zachery with his younger brother © Kim Naylor/WCPF
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