“These last few months since the pandemic came to Guyana have really been hard for me. I know it has been hard for everyone but for me it was really hard but I still trying to get through by the Grace of God, I am taking it one day at a time.”
The words of a mother of three who even as she struggles to cope with remote learning for the younger of two children with depleted finances also had to deal with the sudden death of her husband and her mother being burnt and hospitalized.
We had a chance meeting via telephone and after conversing for a while she opened up. I asked her I could use part of her story for this space and she quickly agreed.