Trips to rural homes now unaffordable
Monday and Tuesday are public holidays. In past years everyone would rush home for a few days break. This year not many people are travelling.
My friend Mavis told me that in May this year she paid $130 000 for the bus trip to get to her rural home which is 2 hours away. The same journey now costs $300 000.
In addition
to this she is expected to take home food for the family. Her elderly parents do not have enough food to give her meals for a three day period.
Mavis said she cannot afford to pay the bus fare home and purchase additional food. She is battling as it is, and is now trying to save up to pay for next term’s school fees. She puts her own child’s welfare before that of her parents, and hopes that other family members will be going home.
She is very distressed.
She comments that she does not know if she will ever see her parents again and yet, the journey is only a 2 hour drive away. What a sad, sick situation we are all in!
