Family Life

Striking Gold-By Edward Maroncha

As university students, Christopher and his wife Lilian did not imagine that they would be jobless for years. But that is precisely what happened. With Lilian becoming pregnant in their final year of study, Christopher became a boda boda rider to make ends meet. Lilian, on her part, learned how to braid hair and worked in a hair salon.

Their lives were disrupted when Christopher contracted pneumonia and doctors strongly advised him to stop riding motorcycles. They returned to their village and started a venture that became quite successful. Their lives were disrupted again when Christopher’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. The disease strained their resource. To survive, Christopher started working in a gold mine…until the mine collapsed and buried him and his friends alive.

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