T&T ....Cushe family overjoyed after finally getting lights
When the T&TEC truck lumbered down the hill towards her home last Tuesday, Cheryl Ramnath’s heart soared.“I want to scream, Thank you a million. You brought Christmas in May!” Ramnath told the T&TEC workers as they hooked up an electrical supply for the first time, to her plywood home at School Road, Cushe.
And when they flicked on the lights, her children whooped with joy.Ramnath, her husband Emilio Perreira and their two children, aged 13 and eight, had lived in the remote community since 2007 as regularised squatters. Even though they had a pipe-borne water supply, they never had current.
It had been their dream to have their home electrified with the gadgets of modern-day living.Since 2009, Perreira had applied but because they had no land tenancy, this was a problem.
When COVID-19 hit and classes went online, Ramnath said her children’s grades began to drop.
In desperation, she bought a WiFi gadget and used her car’s battery to power it.
And when they flicked on the lights, her children whooped with joy.Ramnath, her husband Emilio Perreira and their two children, aged 13 and eight, had lived in the remote community since 2007 as regularised squatters. Even though they had a pipe-borne water supply, they never had current.
It had been their dream to have their home electrified with the gadgets of modern-day living.Since 2009, Perreira had applied but because they had no land tenancy, this was a problem.
When COVID-19 hit and classes went online, Ramnath said her children’s grades began to drop.
In desperation, she bought a WiFi gadget and used her car’s battery to power it.
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Because of poor signal, she often had to drive out the road to a nearby pavilion for her son to do his online classes.
On April 22, she reached out to the CNC3 News team via Facebook begging for some assistance for her children.
Within three weeks of the story being aired, the family got electricity.
