A fire, suspected to be an act of arson, on Saturday night gutted the home of a Charity, Essequibo family leaving six persons homeless.
Juliet Badhri, a domestic worker and a mother of five of 406, Charity Extension Scheme said neither she nor her five children were home when the fire started sometime around 11 pm.
She told Stabroek News, her husband was misbehaving earlier in the night and as a result she and her children left the home and went to her sister-in- law’s residence a short distance away.
“They didn’t know we were there but we were downstairs and her husband come downstairs to go to the toilet and when he go back upstairs she call us up. While going upstairs, I see fire and I seh `oh gosh fire in we house’. I run home but when I reach the whole house was in fire…” the distraught woman related.
Badhri explained that within minutes the two-bedroom, flat wooden house had been gutted.
“We didn’t get to save anything. All my children school books and clothes gone. My big daughter writing CXC and her timetable burn up. I don’t know what she will do for the rest of the exams,” the worried mother said while relating that her daughter is also anxious over the future of the exams.
“We are poor, I work as a domestic worker and try to give my children an education because it is the only thing I can give them but now the fire destroy everything we had and all their school items,” she stressed.
The woman said since the fire, she and her five children, ages 16 -7 have been staying at the home of her pastor.
Asked about her husband, she said she made checks but she could not find him.
The mother said she will be willing to accept any form of public assistance to rebuild a home for her children.
Persons desirous of assisting can contact her on 693-9502.
