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Nabaclis house collapses with family inside
Ann Waldrond and five of her children are now wondering what the Christmas has in store for them.
While most people are busy cleaning their homes, preparing for the Christmas holidays, Ann Waldrond and her eight children are thanking their saviour for sparing their lives after their two-bedroom wooden house at Nabaclis came crashing down on Friday night.
The entire family, including a six-month old twin, was at home when the disaster struck and although only a few of them sustained minor injuries, their livelihood has been completely shattered.
But thanks to the help of some neighbours, further injuries were avoided. Except for a television set, everything that Waldrond owned was destroyed.
Speaking with this newspaper shortly after the incident, Waldrond recalled that when she arrived home from work on Friday afternoon, she was informed that the house she had been occupying for the past year and a half was leaning.
She was warned to be very careful since heavy rains and high winds were expected later that night.
Waldrond even warned her children not to run or walk too heavy in the house.
“With that we went down in prayer and we started to ask God to guide we during the night,” Waldrond told this newspaper.
She said that she then sent one of her sons to purchase some ice and the first signs of disaster surfaced as he walked down the stairs.
“All I hear is crack! Crack! And the house start leaning back fuh this side. I drop though de floor and de stove fall on me,” Waldrond told Kaieteur News.
She said that it was her son who came to her rescue by pulling the lighted stove from her before the flames could ignite anything.
“He come and say, ‘Mommy don’t cry fuh confuse youself’. He then tek me hand and pull me out. When I come out, I started to holler fuh me children dem,” the single parent mother related.
She said that neighbours rushed into the yard and they helped get the rest of the family to safety.
Waldrond sustained minor burns about her body, while her eldest daughter suffered bruises and another sibling is nursing a blow to the head.
Miraculously, the twin babies who were being held by one of their older sisters were spared. Waldrond and her family could only salvage a few pieces of clothing and had to spend the night which saw torrential rains at a neighbour.
She is appealing desperately for some help and since it is the season of giving, she is hopeful for any kind of assistance.
Head of the Benschop Foundation, Mark Benschop, who learnt of the incident, has pledged to make a donation of clothing, cash and other supplies to the family.
He is calling on other kind-hearted citizens to chip in and help out the family who are in dire need, especially at this time of the year.
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