“Most weeks I cannot buy fish nor chicken, it is just rice and whatever little stew I can find. I can’t say rice and greens because the greens expensive now more than other things. Let me just say that it is only by the Grace of God me and then children making it.”
The words of a single mother of three who is a security guard and like many others finds it hard to grapple with the rising cost of living.
“Everything going up but not my salary. Sometimes it is like real headache when I get pay because you have so much to do but you know the money can’t do and you wondering what you have to leave out,” she told me with a sad smile. “I know it affecting everybody but I could only talk about me and how hard it is for me and them children.”