Dying for Her Siblings
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The business of their parents started plummeting when
Their father took it, the illness was severe, that he was always
Between life and death, being supported by life supporting
Machines. He has always been pulling through the sickness
Even when people have lost hope on him pulling through on the
Sick bed, he will pull through and be discharged. However, the
Capital invested in the business was been eating into during
Those periods and it was not long when the business could not
Stand in the business circuit again alongside with other businesses
What the family members were however happy for is that his life is
Preserved, for if there is life, there is hope they used to say to him.
Since the ship of his business has capsized, to sponsor his children
Becomes difficult, which makes his children to leave him and their
Mother to be living with relatives. Those the children were living with could
Not sponsor them academically and have been admonishing them to go and
Learn a trade, at least to be self-independent after a while since they cannot
Guarantee their sponsorship. They all started learning a trade. The first child
Whom everyone thinks would liberate the family could not because he had an
Accident at the tail end of his training and becomes incapacitated. She
However was determined to make it in life, thence after finishing her training
She got herself a place in an institution and would sponsor herself through
While her father still continues to battle with his health issues. When she
Graduated, she was one of the luckiest in her set to secure employment with the
Government of the island. While working at the place she started giving her
Father proper care that money could afford. Then the issues of her siblings
Who were jobless held her by the jugular and she decides that the best thing
For her to do is getting them established, because if is when she gets each one
Established that things would become easier for her. The first person whom
She wants to establish fell into the hands of the fraudsters. She has taken bank loan
To facilitate this, because she thinks that if the person could be settled, then he will
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Soon be of assistance to her, so that they would combine efforts to establish
Others and they would be delivered from the pit of poverty that their family is in
But this could not happened since he has been duped by the fraudsters. It takes her
Five years to pay up the bank loan. After repaying the bank loans, she will again
Take another loan for her siblings because they have presented to her other business
Opportunities. She also believed those businesses worth investing into. After investing
In the businesses, she then took ill, and it was discovered that her blood pressure
Has risen, the diagnosis is type two hypertension, she has been counseled by the
Health practitioners to rest reduce her stress, take her drugs regularly and avoid things
That will trigger her blood to rise. When this happened their parents told the children
That all that happens to her is because she has been the only one within the family who is
Gainfully employed. Since she has been employed, she has barely spent ten percent of her
Monthly income on herself, everything she has been doing has been for the
Upliftment of the family and especially her siblings for assuming she has not that mind
All that has happened to her would perhaps not happen to her. Her parents blessed her
Saying they look forward to God crowning her efforts on the family with brilliant
Successes and that she will be delivered from all her afflictions and troubles as the
Holy writ has said, that, “Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will
Deliver him in time of trouble.” She appreciated her parents for understanding
With her and looking forward to positive changes soon in the family. As the prayers
Of their parents on her, their investments this time was blessed of the Lord, and
The fortune of the family was changed. His siblings become established in
Their various businesses, they were able to take adequate care of their parents
She got married and was blessed with wonderful children.
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