White Phapuwa Phikani, aged 100, and his wife, Linny Kazembe Phapuwa, are asking organisations and well-wishers to build them a house and provide them with food, clothes and other necessities as they can’t afford to take care of themselves due to old age.
The family, from Jorigi 2, Group Village Headman Jali in Zomba, mostly spend days without eating anything due to their levels of poverty.
To add salt to their wounds, Phikani made a shocking revelation of unidentified people who stole his bicycle, the only mode of transport that he was using to go to a maize mill.
“My wife is shortsighted, and she can’t go to a maize mill without being accompanied by. We had a bicycle, which was very useful to us, but some unidentified people stole it, and we are currently struggling because we are too old, as you can see. It’s been a hell of a life for us in our old age,” he said.
Village Headman Jorichi said Phikani and his wife face a lot of challenges that need to be addressed, hence reaching out to organisations and well-wishers to come to their rescue and respond to their plight.
Though the family is on a social protection programme, they still need more to sustain their livelihood.
The local leader said Phikani and his wife are compelled to go to the garden to farm despite their old ages and poor health, something not healthy for the elderly couple.
