If you believe that life is always fair and designed to only be a joyful ride, think again.

If you expect that life owes you something, you may be setting up yourself for massive disappointment.

There’s no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance and often pain.

Problems that make you want to throw up your hands and give up will build your tenacity, courage, discipline and determination if one keeps fighting.

Valentin is the mother to these boys.

Her children were born like that, with both arms in such a shape.

When the mother tried taking them to hospitals hoping the arms would be stretched and have no more shapes, doctors said there’s nothing to help.

The boys let her grow and are now used to living with their extraordinary arms.

She says it was a bit confusing the day she gave birth to children with such hands.

To her it was unbelievable and hard to accept that she gave birth to not one but two children who are having same body deformity.

Shortly after these children were born, parents had some misunderstandings which forced the man to go away and abandon all his responsibilities as a father.

This meant both children and their mother were going to live a very difficult life, and that is exactly what they are facing, since this mother never went to school and has no any special skill, resulting to no permanent job, and that means no money, and lack of money results into poverty.

These boys grow and it was time for them to start schools.

This mother put them in schools for them to learn and have some skills and knowledge so as to survive in this world.

After thinking how they have gone to school- and, due to the weather, arms are bent-

She was left with only one thing in mind that was wondering whether these children would be able to hold a pen and write, but found out this was the easiest thing they have ever done, avoided.

The elder brother is in primary one, which is quite unusual, as he was supposed to be at least in primary six or even senior one.

But this mother explains why and says he was born with some mental illness that makes his brain process slurry compared to other children and another problem being difficulties in listening.

e problems that sometimes you talk to him and he does not hear what one is saying.

All these above mentioned factors affected the boy.

Made him not to be competitive in class, as it was supposed to be, due to having a poor performance.

The boy was in primary three last year, but after teachers examined and found he doesn’t marry to be in P3, he was relegated to primary one directly and parents are okay with it, and says it was a right decision but sounded unfair since someone relegated to P1 from P3 yet he would be promoted to p4.

But since the boy had a soft assessment and also realized he was having a poor academic performance, he thought the best idea was dropping out, as he insisted himself that he can stop afresh and make a difference due to living a life without her father.

And this mother is supposed to cover all the school materials.

Sometimes she fails and children refuse to go to school, like a few days ago, where the young one had no shoes for school and the elder one does not have full and complete uniform.

He has one shot and the shot got old and turned into rugs.

Failure to provide the school materials can contribute to seeing their children drop out, but she’s here fighting, trying and knocking every possible door so that her boys would go to school.

Since she knows what education means to her children, she says she’ll always try and solve the problems and provide everything for them to concentrate in class.

Without agriculture her life would be much incomplete, as by now is our only source of income.