Dithursana doesn’t have a proper home to live in. Right now, her family lives in a temporary shelter where the rain comes straight in during the rainy season.
And it’s no better when it’s dry. When the sun is out, the tin roof turns the inside unbearably hot. Then, they can barely sit inside for five minutes. There’s nowhere for her children to sleep through the night.
She has three children. One of her daughters had a tumour in her stomach and has already been through an operation. It’s hard for her to rest in the shed they have.
When we ask Dithursana how she manages, she doesn’t have a lot to say. “You just keep doing what you need to,” she says. And she does, because she has no choice.
Her husband does daily wage labour. Whatever work he can find, he will do. With that, he’s trying to cover the children’s needs and the medical costs that come with their daughter’s condition.
And there’s nothing left over to build with. Her parents aren’t able to help either. They have struggles of their own.
A house won’t undo what her daughter is going through. But it would mean that child recovers and grows up somewhere dry and steady. That all her children will have a home to sleep safely in. Somewhere that doesn’t make things harder for them.
And with your support, we can make this a possibility for Dithursana.