SANITY RESTORED IN SCOVIA’S HOME
As it is said, a violent home is non- habitable. This was the case for Masika Scovia’s home. Her husband has been violent all through her marriage. He has been drinking alcohol throughout the time she got married to him. “Alcohol makes him more violent to an extend of hitting me and the children and sending me out in the dark. We would sleep on the verandah as he talks hurtful words that made me hate him….”
“I have been struggling to get food and school fees for my children alone. Whatever my husband used to get would be spent on his drink and sometimes he would steal my hidden money and go to drink and we sleep on empty stomachs with my children.” Scovia narrated.
She then received information about the parenting sessions organized by good hope foundation with support from CRVPF and joined the group. She convinced her husband to join the group too, which he accepted and got interested about what was being taught. “When we learnt about the session on Legacy, my husband was touched and confessed that he did not want his children to become abusers like what he had been doing. He has henceforth stopped beating us since he reduced the intake of alcohol…’’
“My children are happy that they can relate with their father without fearing him and I pray that when school finally opens, he will be able to help me in paying school fees because we together learnt that our children have a right to education and it’s the good legacy that we can leave to our children” She said.
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