T&T....‘I feel less than human’
Chris Heeralal, a man who lost both his legs, lives alone atop a hill in Iere Village, Princes Town.He spends a lot of his time in a wheelchair, dreading when the time draws near for him to crawl downhill on hands and knees across a path of dirt and rubble.
His house, half made of plywood, is far from the roadway, connected only by a trail of loose concrete slabs. It is on these blocks that he drags himself, pushing his body from the wheelchair and climbing from slab to slab.By the time he reaches the bottom of the slope, Heeralal is soaked in sweat and covered in dirt.
But it is a path he must traverse at least once a month in order to cash the $2,000 disability cheque afforded to him by the State.When the Express visited last week, heavy rains had turned the steep hill into a waterfall-like trail.Heeralal, bracing his knees with two tattered kneepads, demonstrated his descent.“This is what my life has become,” he said while crawling down the hill.
His house, half made of plywood, is far from the roadway, connected only by a trail of loose concrete slabs. It is on these blocks that he drags himself, pushing his body from the wheelchair and climbing from slab to slab.By the time he reaches the bottom of the slope, Heeralal is soaked in sweat and covered in dirt.
But it is a path he must traverse at least once a month in order to cash the $2,000 disability cheque afforded to him by the State.When the Express visited last week, heavy rains had turned the steep hill into a waterfall-like trail.Heeralal, bracing his knees with two tattered kneepads, demonstrated his descent.“This is what my life has become,” he said while crawling down the hill.
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