A daugher tries to find help for her mother.

 
 

This week , while we were in El Tablon, a young woman approached us about helping her mother who she said was very ill.
We went to visit the mother. She is only 53yrs old and has been bedridden for the past year. She had as stroke. She can walk with assistance to the bathroom.

She spends her days in bed, the bed does not have a mattress. She is lying on bare boards with a straw mat.
My heart went out to this woman when I heard what her life has been like. 8 years ago her husband died. Then her son was killed in an accident. Then her married daughter died suddenly in her sleep. The daughter's husband left after the daughter died, leaving the grandmother to raise a 3yr old and a 4 yr old. The two children, a boy and a girl are now 11yrs old and 13yrs old.

Last year after the grandmother had the stroke, her married daughter brought her and the two children to live with her and her family. Her husband and she have four children and very, very little money but they have opened their home and their hearts to them.

It is a huge financial strain for the family. When we visited the 13yr old boy had taken the day off school to go and work in the fields. The daughter explained that they needed the money to be able to pay for food.

We are trying to get these two children sponsored to go to school to help relieve the burden on the family.

We are going to give the mother a wheelchair so that she will be able to sit up and a walker to help her get around.

Unfortunately, the stroke has affected her ability to be able to talk coherently and this leaves her very isolated.

We need help to be able to provide this woman with food and a mattress. A mattress for her single bed is $40 US.