How 12-Year Old Orphaned Aisha Became A ‘Mom’ To Siblings And Niece
When ‘bigger than life’ kind of responsibility is thrown your way, what do you do? Abubakar Chiroma took to his Facebook page to share this really sad story of Aisha, a 12-year-old orphaned girl in Borno state, who has been taking care of 4 children- all by herself since the death of her elder sister.
According to Abubakar, 3 of the children are her siblings while the youngest belongs to her late sister. Brave Aisha makes a living fetching and selling firewood within the village.
In addition, Abubakar disclosed that the girl and the other children all live in a tent house in Cross Kauwa, few kilometres to Baga in Kukawa Local Government Area, Borno state.
Abubakar and others are currently working on a plan to assist the young girl and her younger ones.
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Read his post below:
“She is Aisha by name 12 years by age taken care of this kids alone taken refuge in Cross Kawa without Father, Mother or relative. What a wicked world indeed. The little girl with her belong to her late elder sister who died and left that little girl with her, she is now the custodian of this little girl together with her three siblings.
The tent you see behind is their shelter, their feeding depend on the firewood Aisha fetches from the nearby bush and if she is a able to find a buyer. Not to long ago, she buried her immediate younger brother whom on a normal day would have survived the common disease that lead to the early terminal of his life.
This is only one sided story of this brave 12 years old girl who despite all odds to make sure her siblings survived in that travel and volatile environment where human life has become a sheld and one out of thousand in North Eastern Nigeria.”
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