Cojoined twins, Maria and Consolata Mwakikuti have talked about their future as they would love to become teachers after graduating from school.
Tanzanian conjoined twins Maria and Consolata Mwakikuti
Tanzanian conjoined twins Maria and Consolata Mwakikuti
are in their last year at secondary school and are looking forward to
graduating after their final exams. The 19 year-olds are studying in Iringa Udzungwa in Tanzania's south-west region.
Their
mother died after giving birth, their father has also passed away, and
they were raised by a Catholic church charity, Maria Consolata, which
adopted them and gave them their names.
The BBC's
Leonard Mubali travelled to meet them. He joined them for a class
session and says they were getting on well with their classmates and
taking an active part in the lessons. He says Consolata was more
talkative and engaged than her sister.
They told our reporter that they want to become teachers and hope to get married to one husband in the future.
Headmaster
Edward Fue said he had been shocked when he met the young women last
year saying he did not know how to help them because the school did not
have special facilities.
The school, with the aid
of the local government, have now built a special room for them to rest.
They also hired a driver to take them to where they live.
Our reporter says that the girls are against the idea of being surgically separated.
-BBC