your family update
You Backed them and things began to change
“I haven’t had enough to eat since I was a child. Now I have to watch my children go through the same.”
Rajeshwari lives in a small village called Sorvamunai in Eastern Sri Lanka with her husband and their three children. The oldest is 16, the second is 10, and the youngest is a five-year-old girl. Her husband goes fishing, and some days he brings fish home but most days comes back empty-handed. When there is no work, they borrow food from their neighbors to eat and pay back later.
She grew up in a family of six children. Her father went to work in the river every day so they would have food, but sometimes they had nothing. They had very little clothes and some years they couldn’t even get something stitched to wear. Still, all the children went to school, even with those problems.
Now Rajeshwari runs her own household. She does not work outside, but she makes sure her children go to school. School fees and class needs are paid carefully. If it is not enough, she borrows or buys on credit and then pays back when she can. Every day she watches carefully to see what they have and what they need.
She wants her children to study and get jobs. She wants them to do work outside of fishing if they like. She thinks education can give them a chance for steady work, even if it is just in a small shop or a garage.
She does not worry about making the house bigger. Every day she makes sure the children have enough to eat, go to school, and that she pays back the small debts she takes. She works hard with what she has to take care of her family. She says, “Whatever happens, if the children come up in life, that is all that matters.”