The teacher who was pregnant when her Albion home went up in flames one month ago is now pleading with the public for assistance.
While support has been slow, the Fire Service has been pushing the family around to get a needed document.
“It has been hard, and it is though still — the challenge right now,” the Guyana Times was told on Saturday afternoon.
Shennisa Willie and five of her children
The blaze that occurred at High Reef, Albion, Corentyne on March 13 had left seven persons homeless.
Shennisa Willie has since given birth to her sixth child.She says while a few persons have come forward to assist and get her children back in school, the family is still greatly in need.
Willie is now living at a house at Manchester, Corentyne with her husband and six children, but the building is not much more than a part-shelter with walls.
In fact, a few days after she moved into the building, she fell through the floor, landing thirteen feet below, and was picked up in the yard and rushed to hospital, where she also gave birth.
“I need a house to stay in. I need beds, I don’t have beds for them to sleep on; sheets… I have one stove that is punishing me to cook, especially in the morning when (it’s time) to go to school. I don’t even have pots; only one pot and a canary… I don’t have accessories to use to cook with.”
According to the teacher, the Guyana Fire Service, which arrived after her building was flattened, has not been able to furnish her with documents she needs. According to Willie, it appears as though there is only one officer at that department who can do the work.
“The officers at the Rose Hall Fire Service told me that the officer gone on some course and they don’t know when he coming back. Then I call New Amsterdam and they told me that I have to wait until Rose Hall send the report. I beg the New Amsterdam officer to see how fast he can get it, and he said he will see what he can do,” Willie related on Saturday.
However, two weeks ago, she had informed this publication about the apparent slothfulness in the process of getting a fire report, and that there was not much help she was getting from the New Amsterdam Fire Service.
The couple is battling to make ends meet along with their children, ages 11, 10, 9, 5, and one month.
Anyone who wishes to make contact with the family can do so on telephone number 672-5363 and 686-1289.
