15-year-old girl with brain tumor faces ejection
The family of the 15-year-old girl with a brain tumour and partial blindness face ejection.
The family lives in a kitchen, which owner wants the space back after months of allowing them to occupy it.
The family has four weeks to vacate the room which provided them shelter since February this year.
Inside a dark room hanged cobwebs and electrical cables that had not seen power for years.
The deserted kitchen was given to the family when they were ejected out of a kiosk they had been occupying for years.
But Genevive Owusu’s 37-year old mother says the landlord’s wife has called time on their stay.
“My landlord’s wife is chasing us out, but I have found a new place and they are charging GHC2,400 rent advance for two years,” Abigail Sey, the mother of the 15-year old said.
But the single mother, who sells sachet water to cater for her family, says the amount is beyond her.
She makes just GHc 6 a day, an amount that is not even enough to feed the family of three.
“I make GHC6 a day from my pure water business. We used to live in a kiosk at Dome market, but we were ejected sometime in March. So through a friend, I met my landlord, who allowed us to sleep in his kitchen. But there is no light, nothing in here,” she said.
Abigail, whose arm is filled with puffy reddish mosquitoes’ bites, said nightlife in the dungeon- liked room is suffocating.
“Every night is a struggle for us because there are no lights for my children to study or to connect fan when we close the window, everywhere is dark”
“Because we have to be moving Genevieve in and out of bed to use the washroom mosquitoes end up inside the net, we are really suffering” she added.
As if that is not enough, Abigail and her family are being ejected from the ‘darkroom’.
Anyone who wishes to support Genevieve and her family should reach out to The Ghana Report Foundation on 054 842 6252 or info@theghanareport.com