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“My daughter has a kidney problem. The hospital said she needs an operation.”
Vickneswari is 42 and lives in Chinna Kalottam, a village in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, with her husband and three children. Her oldest is a 19-year-old boy, then a 14-year-old girl, and her youngest is just two years old.
Her husband works as a daily wage laborer, but it’s never really enough for school fees, household expenses, and the hospital costs for the youngest. Her youngest daughter has a kidney problem, so they go to the city for treatment.
The doctors said she needs an operation soon. And the operation will be on the twenty-first of this month. Vickneswari goes with her daughter to the clinic and keeps making it work, even though money is hard.
Sometimes the family has to borrow food on credit because they can’t afford to buy any. Her husband will eat at a neighbor’s when they don’t have money. Vickneswari only takes loans for food and pays it back with any small work she does.
They live in a clay house and it’s hard during the rains, and snakes sometimes come near the house, so daily life is not easy. But Vickneswari keeps her children safe and the home running.
She makes sure the children go to school and she walks long distances when buses are not available just so that they don’t miss school. She hopes her children can study well and get good jobs, and that they will have money for transport.
She wants a motorcycle to make travel easier for them and a proper house to live in. She works every day toward these things while taking care of her family and paying back what she borrows.