Single mother works three jobs to maintain her five children

Vanessa Simon

Superwoman is the most appropriate word to describe 39-year-old Vanessa Simon who has three jobs, strips and sells brooms, sells plants, helps her five sons with their homework and attends church on Saturdays.

But it is not some supernatural power that drives this Hopetown resident but simply the love of a single mother who made a promise to herself never to send her children begging and always to provide for their needs.

“The main reason I am doing all this is because of my children. People always say, ‘Girl you don’t tired?’ but while I does feel sleepy sometimes… tired I don’t feel. I don’t know where the strength comes from,