I only think this, knowing it won't happen to me.
However, it happened to Kettma.
[The woman we are doing a micro-finance project with. She was a prostitue but is now selling clothing and attending cosmetology school]
Kettma and her 2 young children live in a home made of tarps.
The wood is warped and weak and the heavy rains collected in the tarp.
Last night as Kettma and her girls were laying in bed, the wood holding up the tarps collapsed.
She barely grabbed her children and made it out of the way in time.
As you can imagine, she is very distraught and having a hard time with this.
Everything she owns is soaking wet- some of it ruined and she lost her "celiing".
She feels hopeless.
I am so ignorant.
I have had a sturdy home/roof over my head my entire life and yet there are many here who dread the rains because it means their house will flood.
What would it be like to not have a dry place to escape to in times of the rain?
What would it be like if I had no where to take my children for dry and safe shelter?
I can't imagine.
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| They were on the bed. |
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| After the rain last night. |
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| Kettma and her girls in front of her Home, before. |
