Child Headed Family requiring assistance

The Salvation Army contacted us about a family who lived in an informal settlement in a one roomed mud and stick hut.  Their father had died in 2003 and their mother died in April 2008, leaving 5 children, aged 4 – 19 years old.  The eldest, is doing her Form 4, having cared for her sick mother and brother over the past couple of years.  The brother fell out of a mango tree in 2005 and ruptured his bladder.  The local hospital left an instrument in his body when operating, and so has now undergone 6 operations to right the situation. We found the eldest boiling and selling maize after school in order to survive and pay for school related costs.