Second Chance School

“Can an offender also be a poet? A prisoner thinker, a human being with sensitivities, dreams, fears, worries, like everyone else?

Niki Lazarou was born on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos in 1944 and was sent to South Africa by her family at the age of 22 to seek a better life. After her first husband died when he was 49, she was left raising two children alone.