Thirty-one-year-old Hameeda Bacchus’s joy at giving birth to triplets on March 14 was only dampened by the thought of providing for them. However, two NGOs visited the family recently with a quantity of supplies.
The National Islamic Sisters Association (NISA) and Food for the Poor (FFP) turned up at the woman’s Canefield, East Canje home to make the donation. Bacchus, already a mother of four said her husband Mahendranauth Punsammy works as a cane harvester at the Rose Hall Estate and barely earns enough to run the home. She said her three eldest children: Imran, 13, Rasheeda, 12 and five-year-old Farzana Khan live with their grandparents.
However, she and Punsammy are parents to two-year-old Budeshwar and they will find it hard to care for the newest additions: Saudia, Shafeena and Shahara who were born at the New Amsterdam Hospital. The girls weighed two, three and four pounds respectively and were born two minutes apart.