Ngora widow stranded with twins

A 25-year old mother is stranded with her twins after their father passed away late last year. 

Norah Amongin is a resident of Tididiek Village in Ogooma parish, Ngora Sub County in Ngora district.

After the death of her father only identified as Odeke and mother Anne Grace Adongo when she was four and seven years respectively, lack of fees made her drop out of school after primary seven. A woman then took her to Soroti town to work as a house girl. 

It's from Soroti town that she met Moses Oceda, a boda boda rider, and they got their first born in 2010 when she was around 18 years.

Oceda died in December 2015 in a road accident while riding his motorcycle along Soroti-Serere Road.

He passed away before revealing to Amongin who was then about to deliver the twins, his village and relatives. She said he only kept on telling her that he hailed from Serere district.

"When my husband died, I was admitted to Soroti Hospital because of the shock that I got and this made it difficult to go and bury him and also get to know his village. I delivered after two weeks on 3^rd of January, 2016," Amongin explained to New Vision. 

Amongin said she sometimes sleeps without a meal because there is no way of getting food. 

When it became worse, Amongin tried to go and live with her brother's wife but she only spent a month. 

Amongin got emotional while narrating her ordeal to Etop. Photo by Emmanuel Alomu

"My brother, Patrick Odeke is believed to be in Moroto doing some business but I don't know his contacts and his wife whom I was staying with in Ngora told me I should leave because she cannot take care of my twins and her three children, so I returned to Soroti" she said. 

Narrating her ordeal, she said since her husband died, no relative has been willing to take care of her twins making life quite hard for her and the babies. 

"It's only Pentecostal Assemblies of God (PAG) main church in Agip, Soroti which supported me with some clothes for carrying my twins and some little money," Amongin said. 

According to her, she used the little money she got for starting a small business making bread where she gets below sh5,000 daily.

"This money is not enough to feed the children and treat them because they are very sickly. I am requesting any well-wisher to support me in any way" she pleaded.

Amongin said she was only lucky that Oceda died after paying rent for four months and his friend also cleared three months' rent for the house at Pamba Ward in Soroti Municipality. 

Dr. Els Van Teylingen, the director of Amecet N'Ainapakin (shelter of peace) Children's Home promised to find ways of supporting Amongin. 

"Let her come next week so that we hear more from her and find ways of supporting her and keeping the twins well," Teylingen said.