The Plight of a family of Ten in Iron sheet structure
There are things we sometimes take for granted in life. I am sharing my experience with Adwoa and her family today so you can appreciate the fact that God has always dealt kindly with us and our families.
I drove 15 kilometres from Bantama in Kumasi to meet Adwoa at the outskirts of Kumasi where she lives with her eight children and two grandchildren.
Her first child is 26 years and her last is 3 years. The 26 year is a female with two children and they all (but the first) sleep in a shanty make-shift ramshackle structure they call home with their father.
Their father does menial jobs around; going from house to house enquiring if he could do anything for a small fee to feed his family. He visits construction sites often in search of “by-day” jobs every day. He looks like a very determined and “forceful” man.
Upon arrival, I realized Adwoa was unwell so I enquired if she had visited the hospital? She answered in the negative and added her health insurance had expired. She looked rather pale and worn-out.
I noticed also that Richard, her fifth child was not around after she had introduced all her children to me and upon enquiring, she told me he we sleeping in the room so I went in there to see him.
He has had a cut from a rusted roofing sheet lying around and was asleep inside. I asked if she had given him meditational and she answered in the negative. Of cause, no money and they had no idea there is something called tetanus even though she had treated the sore with hot water.
Little Richard had developed a temperature with a swollen leg. He looked pale and malnourished just like the other children and their mother.
From morning till the time I arrived around midday, they had eaten nothing and there was no hope for any meal soon.
Question….. What do we do with this family and other situations like this?
Their sleeping place is what u see in the pictures shared; eleven people crammed into this shanty place with no mattress, no ventilation, no facility for cooking and sleeping on the bare cold floor…
Do we set them up to trade or we rent decent accommodation for them….?
Little Richard was taken to a hospital nearby, and some good cash given to them for food… Her response…..I have not seen some before… This was only 500 cedis….as we decide… On what to do to liberate them… Share your thoughts.
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Source: kesssbenonline.com
