Vanessa Collymore and the members of her family now live their lives around a single mattress.
The mattress, donated by the Guyana Relief Council (GRC), serves as the bed for the five members of the family at night and the place where they all eat, sit and mingle in wake of the fire that destroyed their home and another on Quamina Street, last Saturday.
Collymore and her family have been forced to stay in the open area under a
