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A mother of New Amsterdam, Berbice is counting her blessings after her house collapsed while she and two of her four children were inside.
At the time of the incident, on Thursday afternoon, the woman was worried that her other two children were trapped after the wooden structure fell, but, thankfully, they were safe.
Tiffney Waldron, 29, of Smithfield, New Amsterdam, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), said her house collapsed shortly after her four children had arrived home from school. She had asked one to go to the shop and another to fill a bucket of water from the pipe in the yard, and then she heard a cracking sound.
“The next thing I know is that I get pitch into the kitchen, and my son get pitch back in the bedroom, and the house was on the ground,” she said.
Waldron says it has since become difficult for her to dwell in the building, especially in using the bed to sleep. However, she has no other choice for now. She noted that Thursday’s incident is also affecting her children.
“They didn’t get to go to school yesterday because of the incident, because everything is haywire; nothing is at hand reach. It is very uncomfortable. I can’t even sleep in the night, because how the house fall, it is in a slant, and the bed it (slanted) too.”
This 10-day part-time worker of the Government says she is not in a financial position to fix the house at this time. Her children’s father is currently in the interior.
As such, she is seeking the public’s assistance to carry out the needed repairs.
Waldron can be contacted by telephone number 707-1062.