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Me and my brother
22 February 2010
Vanesa is 17 years old. She’s lived in the children’s home for about a year. It is home to 64 children, 95% of whom have family.
She shares her bedroom with another girl, Irina, and has “decorated it in a girly style, with posters and pictures,” she adds. “What I like about the home is that I have many friends here. What I dislike it the freedom, that I’m not free enough.”
Before she came to the institution, Vanesa and her brother were at a diagnostic centre. “We went there because my aunt who was supposed to take care of me and my brother could not manage to do that,” she says. “I don’t want to talk about my aunt.”
Vanesa’s brother is called Michel. He’s 12 years old and likes “playing on the playstation”. “My brother and I depend on each other,” she says. “I hope that when I leave this home, he will come with me. I don’t want him to get used to this place.”
