Hard knock life: A single mom’s struggle to ‘do better’

Her day starts at 5 am and the early hours are filled with the rush of preparing herself for work and her daughter for school; once she leaves work at 4 pm, she bolts home to help her daughter with homework before rushing off to her night job from 6 pm to 2.30 am.

But it takes about an hour to get home in the company’s bus so its sometime after 3.30 am that she finally drops into her bed for what is in effect a nap, because she has to be back on her feet in less than an hour and a half.