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Months Later, Burnt Out Family Still Putting Pieces Together
Fri, July 31, 2015
3 months ago, we told you how Belize City resident Caroline Hamilton and her family suffered great misfortunate when their house burnt down. As ae showed you weeks later, they had nowhere to go. So, they did the only thing they could think of and slept in the burnt shell of their destroyed home, while they waited for help from the Government and whomever could make donations to assist them.

Well, the Government assistance has not arrived yet, but the community has been chipping in little by little with donations of construction supplies. Her common-law husband has been making repairs with those supplies, and today, she told us that while her family's house is on the way to being fully repaired, she still needs a little more help.:

Caroline Hamilton, Fire Victim
"It's been a rocky road, but I as a strong mother stand up and face my crisis. Because if I turned my back, what will happen to my children. So I beg and I cry and someone heard me started to send me help from the Facebook and I thank everybody who helped me out there. Thank them, that they have a heart towards me and my children, but I still need help along the way. I need my back door, I need the rest of glass windows for my house. I cannot stay in the house anymore where I am, because when there is a high tide, the water comes up in the small house where I live. So I have to move out. Fire ants are taking me over when I am sleeping. I am going through a hard time in my life. I want her (daughter) to go back to school. I am buying the books one by one, but I still need help. Because I don't want to let down my child. I want my child to get an education like everybody else and If I don't stand up, who will? I am begging the public once again to please help me - that I could finish my home."

Hamilton has 3 children.

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