Widowed Riffat supplicating family of 8 awaits help

Living and selling in a rented house and shop is nuisance

These days the situation of our country is so tense that it has become difficult to survive owing to the artificial distorting of the prices of every single commodity and weakening of the financial condition of the common man. Now buying things by choice has become a dream. People cannot fulfil the day to day needs of their children but are resorting to doing overtime work which is deteriorating their health. Due to meagre salary packages and poverty people have resorted to do more than one job at the same time worsening the fabric of the society.

Riffat Bibi, a widow, 43 lives in Khanna Pul near Zeyarat stop in Rawalpindi along with her 8 children. She basically belonged to Sialkot and shifted with her husband to Rawalpindi and was living a very happy life. She supplicates all her family members solely besides running a shop in the evening doing lots of other things like working in cottages, cleaning, making hand-man things and lots more only for the sake of her children.

Her husband had become a victim of cancer that lasted for quite long and despite the treatment he succumbed to his ailment and left her in the darkness of this evil world. “Our household condition was fairly good at the time when my husband was alive who used to work in fruit Mandi. He used to do something for the supplication of his family but the problems of her house started to rise afterwards,” she said while talking to INFN.

She has 3 daughters and 4 sons. Her daughters are elder than her sons. Her first daughter has done matriculation and the second is still in Matriculation. Beside these two, her one daughter has come of an age and needs to be married. My all children are studying in the government schools and they are happy as well but now my daughters have come to a marriageable age and need to be married but I am utterly worried about their marriage owing to the poor economic condition which we are facing now a day because I am the sole earner of my family,” Riffat Bibi said.

“I sell pakoras, samosas and chana chat in a rented shop which costs me almost Rs1500 per month. If the government helps me by giving me a shop where I could easily sell my self-cooked and prepared things then my home condition could become better,” she requested.

She is courageously and happily leading her life but she said that she has some problems if that could improve then it would make her stronger. “My daughters are in the age of wedding but I can’t afford their marriage expenses. The second is the problem of my house because I am living in a rented house as well which costs me Rs3000 per month. If these two problems are solved, I would be in a better way leading and educating my children. If anybody wants to help this poor and strong will lady can contact us at infnservice@gmail.com