Under the scorching climate, sunny day, of Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 21-12 months outdated Ms. Sarah Jackson was on room-hire-hustling (begging)-tour of begging pals, which might forestall her being thrown out of a one room she occupies along with her two youngsters—Joseph Chea (age 9) and Johnnel Gargah (age 4).
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She was speaking to herself, and concurrently wiping sweat cascading down her face, some protecting her eyes. After each three or 4 steps ahead, she seemed behind her for her daughter trudging behind her.
“Grace, car coming!” she warned the kid why had drifted off from the pedestrian lane of the vehicular and commuters’ highway, a couple of ten-tyre truck with “LWSC” written on totally different components of the automobile. “Don’t go in the road; come closer to me! We don’t have money for where to sleep, and you want to increase my pressure with car hitting you?” she added.
This author met Sarah—no earlier acquaintanceship between the 2—hopping on her pair of metallic crutches, drenched in sweat, within the LWSC (Liberia Water & Sewer Corporation) Community, Fiamah, Sinkor, Monrovia.
She was being adopted by Johnnel.
The unusual disabled girl’s facial features and her bodily situations—each legs paralyzed (in metallic braces), toes in outdated footwear, and abnormally tiny arms—aroused empathy on this author sitting with industrial typist alongside the highway resulting in the LWSC’s Head Office in Fiamah Community.
The author’s empathy with this disabled mom was from his 9 years (2013-2022) of writing-associated interactions with Liberia’s neighborhood of disabled individuals (blind, crutches-cellular, wheelchair-cellular, and so forth.) via the National Union of Organizations for the Disabled (NUOD), starting with the management of Madam Naomi B. Harris (now deceased/lifeless)
NUOD is an unbiased umbrella for talking for all individuals dwelling with disabilities who usually are not lined by the Liberian Government’s Disability Agency—National Commission on Disabilities (NCD)
After the male stranger launched himself to the disabled girl, and informed her about his relationship with the disabled neighborhood, he inquired about purpose she was trekking within the scorching solar.
“I’m under the hot sun, looking for money to get a new room for me and my two children,” she replied to the primary query.
The male stranger requested concerning the place she’s at present occupying.
“The man who has the house is demanding all tenants to leave the place. He gives us, tenants, Saturday, November 12, 2022, as deadline of living in his house. I do not have money now to get a new room for me and my children. The children’s father abandoned me when our second child was two months old. I called him minutes ago on the house owner’s announcement, but he said he, too, is looking for rent for where he’s living,” Sarah responded to this author’s inquiries.
To my query of whether or not she has data about NUOD, Sarah replied, “Not yet. But, when I settled this sleeping place issue, I will find the place through you.”
To verify what she had informed me, I adopted her to the present home along with her ‘sleeping place’. She was proper! The total constructing was comprised of sheets of aluminum sheets (zinc) It accommodates ten rooms in two rows.
Only one individual was in the home.
“She’s my blood sister,” Sarah launched the woman to me.
“My name is Poliah Jackson, her older sister. I want to help my sister on finding a room, but I don’t have money. I called her children’s father, but he didn’t pick my call. Her condition can’t allow her to do work, like selling or working for another person,” the woman mentioned.
On the journalist’s query of starting or explanation for her incapacity, Sarah mentioned: “My mother told me, it started when I was ten years old. She said, it started as high fever. But, when she took me to a hospital, the doctors told her it were Polio. That’s the Polio that crippled me today.”
After explaining the genesis of her incapacity, she peeped into the empty hall of the home, sobbed and broke down in tears.
“If you can make kind-hearted Liberians and foreigners living in Liberia help me find a room for me and my little children, I will extremely happy,” she mentioned, nonetheless crying.
Anybody who needs to financially rescue this disabled single can attain her straight via her private cellphone quantity—+231-770268190—or via the cellphone variety of her organic sister (Poliah Jackson): +231-770525566 or through the author (Bill W. Cooper): +231770786013/880556835.
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