Glarey Bowling, the woman who is bedridden after being severely burnt when her Parika Backdam home was channa bombed by a family friend, has received two wheelchairs and a quantity of foodstuff.
The injured woman who also lost two children and her mother in the inferno had told Stabroek News in a news item published in Friday’s edition that she longed for a wheelchair so that she could go outside for some fresh air.
Seven months of lying down has seen little improvements in the burns on her back and she believes that by getting a wheelchair the healing process will speed up. Last Friday, Gafoors presented her with a wheelchair and later that day the Ministry of Human Services handed over another wheelchair and some foodstuff
In the wee hours of May 9, Bowling, her seven children and her mother, were asleep in their almost-completed house at One Mile Parika Backdam, when a man close to the family threw an incendiary device into the house.
Bowling who received burns to 90% of her body and several of her children managed to escape but 17-month-old Anida; three-year-old Devika and their 66-year-old grandmother Victoria Benjamin were burnt to death.
Since the article addressing Glarey’s plight many persons have come forward and expressed a willingness to help.
