Mother begs for help: Children living in shed, no lights, no water
Josiah and Christiana Victor sit at an old table on discarded chairs outside their humble home after school, feverishly trying to complete their homework before dark.
If not, the siblings would have to strain their eyes using an oil lamp as their home at the edge of a Rio Claro forest has no power.
It is a hard life for Josiah, 12, a student at the Rio Claro East Secondary School and Christiana, seven, a Poole Presbyterian Primary School pupil, who live with their mother, Crystal Mohammed, under severe poverty.Mohammed said she contacted a few councillors for help with the road and groceries, but no one was willing to assist.
Old buckets and wood litter the yard, and there is no security as the galvanised sheets that make up the walls of their home do not reach the roof.
The children eat food that Mohammed cooks on a makeshift stove made out of a barrel, two concrete blocks and a metal grill.
With limited space inside, some of their clothes are outside. Josiah says he is working hard in school to become a fireman to help his family out of a life of struggle.
“I would be grateful to anyone who would try to help us to come to a better home and get a better place to do our homework. Anything we get, we will be thankful. I want to go to school and get my education to get a job and take care of my mother and sister, my siblings and everybody,” Josiah told Guardian Media.
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Poverty in Trinidad and Tobago..see pictures
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I Mulligan
an administration who parties and drinks freely at the Hyatt, and many highly paid Govt workers who NEVER SHOW UP FOR WORK.
These are the consequences of their neglect and corruption...Poverty.
Hassan Abdool
May I ask who Elected these Nincompoops to Office.
This is a Clear case of Rum And Roti Politics at Work.
The PNM in my View has out lived its usefullnes.
It is time to Throw them Out, Period. Peace
In reply to sgtdjones
When is the next election?
In reply to googley
Two years....even Jamaica refusing T&T money.
Hope you not doing pujas in T&T dollars.
Rowley went through 550 billion plus in 8 years...
Now the Indian from India will post about Canadian dollars..
T&T’s shrinking middle class
“WHEN the rice finishes, we make dumplings.”
That’s the reality for one family because they simply cannot afford to replenish food until the next pay cheque.
Living pay cheque to pay cheque is a dilemma many households are facing in Trinidad and Tobago.
Some months, families sacrifice groceries to meet other basic needs.
Two families, who wished not to be named in this article, told Express Business that they are living in survival mode.
For each household, that means the only way to get by is scaling back on essentials every month.
Vote more for socishitists alyuh mudda counts...vote more fuh dem! Facting fools. Fools stop. 
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