When All Hope Is Lost

A mother of three young children, the eldest who is thirteen years old and the youngest a toddler of thirteen months recently ended her life because of debts.

When All Hope Is Lost

She had approached a loan shark ,together with three other women to borrow money to be used for the start of a business venture.The other members were supposed to be joint guarantors of the 500 dollars which every member of the group had borrowed.When the venture she had started folded and she could not repay the loan amount plus interest,she told her brother that she was having financial problems.The desperate woman threatened that should the situation continue then she would end her life.When her sibling heard this he drove to meet and counsel her and left her some money to tide her over.After making two payments ,she clandestinely bought some poison,wrote several letters inform her relatives whom she wanted to take care of her children.Under the cover of darkness she drank the poison.

In the middle of the night,when the toddler needed attention.the mother was unresponsive.The elder sibling woke up to find out what the matter was ,only to find the mother catomase.He promptly called for help from the neighbour,who happens to be a nurse.They asked another neighbour to ferry her to hospital,but she was pronounced dead on arrival.

One should never allow themselves to believe that whatever bad situation they are in will not change.Change is inevitable.Had the lady   asked the lender for relief so could pay a reduced amount,she probably could be alive today.She would be taking care of her children.Her children are in a worse situation because of the action she took.No matter how well the mother's sister will take care of them,they will never see their mother again.depriving them of a mother's love at such a tender age.