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Homeless Sophia family receives monetary assistance
Colin Marks handing over the monetary donation to Oneika Thompson on behalf of his New York-based relative, Natasha De Jounge.
As Oneika Thompson battles to care for her seven children, after being left homeless following the collapse of her Sophia home on Boxing Day last, more donations continue to pour in to assist the family.
Yesterday, overseas-based Guyanese Natasha De Jounge, through a relative, Colin Marks, gave the woman a substantial amount of money to assist in alleviating her plight.
In handing over the money, Marks said that De Jounge read about the unfortunate incident in the Kaieteur News online edition, and as such decided to help the woman’s cause.
The 36-year-old mother was left homeless after her ‘B’ Field, Sophia house came crashing down on Boxing Day.
Oneika Thompson recalled that, shortly after six o’clock, she awoke and started washing the clothing of her youngest child, who is two months old.
The distraught woman recalled that she heard a sound as if someone had hit the wall or stamped on the floor, and she went inside the house to investigate.
She noted that, when she checked, all of her children were sleeping in their respective beds.
She recounted that as she was about to continue her chore, she heard the sound again, and simultaneously, the entire house collapsed.
Thompson added that the scariest part of the experience was the fact that her youngest child and three other of her children were pinned under a wardrobe, which was broken.
According to the woman, she is thankful to God that none of the children were harmed.
She believes that it might have been the intense rainfalls that weakened the mud under the foundation, causing the house to collapse. She pointed out that she had been living in the house for only three months shy of two years.
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