“When my husband had his accident, we had no money. I fried vadas and went house to house to feed my family, and we still couldn’t eat three meals.”
Santhaluxmi manages her children alone while her husband works in Colombo. After his accident left him unable to do heavy work, and her own heart attack forced her to stop working, the family lives on what he earns. Her hope is that her son can be come an engineer one day.