South Africa, Fifteen Years On

Onele Ndabakayise, 12, helps her uncle with tea in Mvezo
Benedicte Kurzen / VII Mentor for TIME

Tea and Sympathy
Onele Ndabakayise, 12, helps her uncle with tea in Mvezo. With few jobs in the villages, millions of rural South Africans migrate to the cities to look for work, leaving their children in the care of the extended family. Onele's parents are hundreds of miles away in Johannesburg.

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