Heartbreaking scene of three orphaned sisters

(Baonghean.vn) - In June 2014, Can Van Duong in Nhan Tai village, Cam Son commune (Anh Son) passed away while working as a laborer in Laos. Not long after, unable to bear the hardship, his mother Lo Thi Hoa also left, leaving behind her young children without a place to depend on. At school age, the three sisters Can Thi Duyen (born in 2002), Can Van Huy (born in 2007) and Can Van Hung (born in 2008) soon became orphans. Their future is becoming uncertain.

3 children live in an old house with no valuables.

The small, shabby house of the three sisters Duyen, without the guidance of their mother and the education of their father, became moldy and dilapidated, with blankets, clothes, and books all in a mess. Only Huy and Hoang were at home, Duyen was fetching water from a neighbor's house to cook. Duyen said: "There is no well in the house, so every day I have to fetch water to cook, and when it's time to take a bath, it's very miserable."

As the eldest sister, Duyen has to take care of everything in the house.

At the age of not having enough to eat and not enough to worry about, Can Thi Duyen still tries to take care of her two younger siblings, eating vegetables when there are vegetables, eating porridge when there are porridge. Every day, the three sisters go to catch crabs in the fields to sell to earn money to live on. When there are many meals, they earn 15,000 VND, when there are few, they earn 5-7 thousand VND. Duyen said: I love my two younger siblings very much, it has been a long time since we have known the taste of meat. Having rice to cook and eat is enough, so the three of us do not dare to dream too much. The new school year has come, I have dropped out of school for 2 years now, the two younger siblings are lucky that everyone bought them schoolbags and books, but they do not even have a study table, at night they have to lie on the bed to study, it is very difficult.

Ms. Dang Thi Ly, a neighbor of the three Duyen sisters, said: "Currently, the three Duyen sisters have to support themselves. Rice is donated by the commune People's Committee and everyone else. Food is almost non-existent, and vegetables are asked from people around the village. Since their mother left, the villagers have often come to encourage and visit the children. But in the long run, the children are still too young, so they need the attention of the whole community to overcome this difficulty."

Children at risk of dropping out of school

Sharing about the situation of the three Duyen brothers, Mr. Ngan Van Tinh - Party cell secretary of Nhan Tai village, Cam Son commune said: "The family of the three children has been a poor household in the village for a long time. Due to difficult circumstances, Duyen had to drop out of school for the past 2 years, Huy and Hoang go to school thanks to the support of the government and the people. Our village is very poor, we cannot give them much, so we hope everyone will help them."

As we parted, Duyen held my hand and said with a bitter voice: “Our situation is very difficult, we don’t know who to rely on, now we just want to go to school so that we can have a job to support ourselves in the future”. Hearing the wish from the bottom of the heart of a naive child made my heart heavy. Without the caring hands of a mother and the protection of a father, I wonder where the future of Duyen and her three sisters will lead?

Thai Hien