Poor Mom Kept Boiling Stones, Hungry Children Got Tired of Waiting & Fell Asleep!
New Delhi : The coronavirus epidemic has put humans in a great tragedy. Every day various pictures of this tragedy comes which deepens the feeling of darkness and despair. A similar case has emerged from Kenya.
In Kasouni, Mombasa County, Kenya, when a woman could not provide food to the children suffering from hunger, she started boiling stones to comfort them. Penniha Kitao is the mother of eight children. After the murder of her husband, she runs home alone. Penniha told a website that she was pretending to cook food in front of her children by boiling stones so that they would calm down and go to sleep after some time.
Pennyha said that ‘The children were crying constantly and were not even going to sleep. So I tried this trick. I boiled the stones twice, hoping that the children would feel that something was cooking and they would fall asleep while waiting. However, this trick of Penniha did not work for long. Penniha said, the next day when I sat down to boil the stones for the children, the children got up at midnight. One of my children said that I am lying to them that food is being prepared whereas I am only boiling stones.’
Pennyha’s neighbor, Prisca Nyakargio, said that one day when she heard the sound of continuous crying in her neighborhood house, she came to know about Penniha’s condition. Prisca, seeking help for Pennyha on social media said, “When I saw her condition, I got emotional. I am also a mother and can feel her pain. That’s why I thought of helping her. Now many people are coming forward to help Pennyha.”
Pennyha says that in 2019 thieves attacked her house and murdered her husband. She was pregnant for two months at that time. In this situation, Pennyha started the laundry work. But everything changed after the first case of coronavirus appeared in the country. In Kenya, it is becoming difficult for all the families in the Corona crisis to earn a two-time bread.
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