Kenyans were taken aback after photos of an expectant woman who has been living inside a tree stump together with her six kids emerged on social media.
The family has been living inside a hollow fig tree in a forest in Voi, Taita Taveta county for several months after they were kicked out of their home by their in-laws.
The middle-aged woman identified as Juliet Samba said she could not find shelter and was forced to look for a place in the forest. She says the hollow tree trump provided her and her children enough space to crawl and snugly fit in.
“We decided to start here, at the very bottom, people begin from the bottom and then they go up,” Samba told Citizen TV.
The family has been living in the trump for months without anyone from the neighboring villages finding out.
Samba is sevens month pregnant and is yet to visit a hospital for a check-up. She fears she will not get any help when she goes into labor as there is no health facility nearby.
On Thursday, some residents of Kirutai village visited the woman with some foodstuffs after they learned the family has been living there for months. They wondered how the family survived there without a dependable water source or food.
Pity and shameful for us all…
Pity and shameful for us all. Question is: Which man has been crawling in the stump with her? Six kids and one about to drop? Jamani, Je, huu ni ungwana?! as uncle Mbotela would ask!
Where are shelters for…
Where are shelters for battered women.A counrty’s progress should be measured by how society tackles such issues.
Hard to imagine that there are no social programs to Carter for such social problems 50plus years after Uhuru…
hehehe …. some guy goes…
hehehe …. some guy goes inside that tree and screws her … does that tree have bedrooms or how does this work … hii kenya ya uhuru na raila ina mambo
Renember the Woman that …
Renember the Woman that ‘cooked stones for her Kids”? So here comes another Ploy and Decoy for Donations to Nowhere. Just like the money DONATED to her “Went With the Wind” just like that(Thanks to “pimps” that fronted her), more Money is about to Go Same Way (in the name of this Pimping Story).
Naxikey…NOT YET UHURU…
Naxikey…NOT YET UHURU.
KENYA INA WENYEWE.
AKINA UHURU, RUTO, RAILA, WAIGURU. ETC.
I BELIEVE HYENAS WILL ACT BETTER THAN KENYAN POLITICIANS
If it isn’t bad enough that…
If it isn’t bad enough that this woman has to live in a stump, she now has to live with the splashing of her situation all over the internet. Waacha wee! Poor journalism.