How widows are coping with COVID-19 crisis
Recently, the 2020 international widows’ day was celebrated in low-key due to the global health crisis. Amidst the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, widows in Nigeria shared their tales of neglect and survival, reports“When my husband died, I spent so much money and sold so many items just to take care of him during his sickness.
Blessing Kaja, who hails from Imo state, has been a widow for seven years with two children. She revealed how she has been shouldering the burden. The untimely demise of a woman’s husband is always the beginning of a painful era. Often, she is not only despised, she gets abandoned by her once-loving in-laws. Even older widows provide no succour for her.
Mrs. Adekale Abiodun, who is nurturing six children, said: “I have been managing. I’ve been doing work like washing clothes, cleaners. Then I switched to selling clothes , I got a container. When the market was not moving, I started selling food.”
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