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It was hard not to have them with me. It was rough too because I still had to find everything to mind them. I can’t explain what it was like living away from my children, but we had to do it.”She did not give up and worked her fingers to the bone to find a means of rebuilding a place to call home and to unite her family.“With the money I get, I started to knock something up and then somebody tell me about the Arya Samaj.”Eighteen months after the fire, she contacted a member of the group,Wholesale Nike New England Patriots Jerseys From China, made her plea and was successful.A few months later, construction of the $480,Cheap NFL Jerseys,000 house began.Andrea Giddings,Wholesale Jerseys China, three of her children and their home“By December we had a two bedroom concrete home. It is very nice to have a place to call home. I am so glad for it. We are comfortable and I am thankful to the Arya Samaj. I still sell the cool-down and ice at a school. But when school was closed it was hard but now school open and things pick up a lil bit but it still rough.”Her children who are 17 and 15-years old attend the Central Corentyne Secondary School while the other is an adult and lives on her own. At the time, the two younger ones resided with her, “Life was rough before the fire. I used to sell lil cool-down and ice and that is how we used to survive. I used to make about $2,000 a week and that had to mind me and my two children.”Her daughter is preparing to write five subjects at the 2010 Caribbean Secondary Examination Council (CSEC) exam.“The 15-year old boy, he ain’t writing the exam this year. I usually get public assistance for him and I didn’t get for four months. So it pile up and when I collected that I use it to pay for my daughter CXC.”She can now see a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel.“I plan to apply for a security work. Was God who keep us through all that. I know one day things would look up for us.”A few miles down the Corentyne Highway at Rose Hall Town in Beharry Street, is 22-year old Andrea Giddings. The uneducated and unemployed woman has four children for a matching number of men. “Me mother couldn’t afford to send me to school and to mind me and then the situation with me mother and father, I get pregnant at 14.”She did whatever it took to survive including having sex with the opposite gender for a fee.Andrea Giddings said she does not know what love is.“No man ever love me and me never love no man. Me always had to fend fuh meself.”The children are seven, five, three and two-years old.“Them is all different father. When me get pregnant them men gone. We used to live all over and me does do lil snack wuk. The lil house that we bin living in fall down a day. 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Me don’t plan fuh mek more children.”Now she is living in a newly constructed two bedroom wooden house.“I feel good ‘cause them (Arya Samaj) come help me. I gwine care this one.”Work on the new structure commenced by November 26th, 2009. Neighbours along with wellwishers assisted in the actual construction work. The $243,000 building is not yet completed; some minor work is still left to be done.Meanwhile,Wholesale Nike Denver Broncos Jerseys From China, Project Manager of the Arya Samaj Vijay Ramoo said construction of a one-bedroom home for the Mohabir family of Hampshire, Corentyne is to commence today. The patriarch of that family is blind and is also an amputee. 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