Home Alone

Single mother, single parent taking the responsibility of upbringing of her child might be common in the West too but in this part of world where family relations are very close, the separation of one parent usually father, leaves the family shattered, all alone and in suffering.

Tasleema, 33, is living in a single room which serves as a kitchen and bedroom as well. For her and her two children aged 8 and 6.

After the death of her husband, she returned to her father’s home but “felt a change in her parent’s attitude”. “They asked me to live separately in a room which was meant for paying guests,” She said.

Tasleema has no permanent source of income but she feels “God has put His hand on her and she manages to run her one room home”.

Her sisters have been a continuous support; her in-laws send her half the produce of their 2 kanal land, Bait-ul-mall gives her monthly fee of 1000 rupees, an orphanage is providing her some daily kitchen commodities and she has herself started tailoring to meet the expenses. “But despite of all these helps, it is still difficult to run a house and most importantly the growing children. I don’t hesitate if anybody tells me this is the organization and they can help us financially. I can do anything for my children,” says Tasleema.

Tasleema’s parents are well off, however, they don’t help her. “I have two brothers and they are ashamed of me because I wander go orphanages and other such places but they don’t want to spend a single rupee on my children. They have disowned my children. They don’t allow my children to enter their house,” she says.

She if during night somebody knocks the main door they get frightened. And if any of her children falls ill she has to call her cousins for help despite her parents and brothers living next door.more