“People would always say that when you don’t have children to mind then things must be really easy. Once you working and you don’t have children to send to school and so on that you have to be making it. The reality is far from that; we are all struggling and for most of us if it was not for help from relatives we would not make it.”
These are the words of a 48-year-old public servant who lives with her retired partner. We converse from time to time and I, maybe like many, believed that things were not be too tough for them as they have no children and have both worked all their lives.
However, that day she further opened my eyes to the struggles Guyanese – even those who have worked and contributed to this country for years – have to just make it from day to day.
