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ACTNews, BANTUL
– Kamisah (70) lives alone in Bantul, Yogyakarta. She is not married, and
her parents have passed away. Every morning, she walks to the forest to collect
firewood to sell.
Every day, he
walks 10 kilometers barefoot through the hulls and forest to collect firewood.
She believes that as long as she can still walk, she will never beg. “As long
as I am healthy, I won’t beg. I am grateful for whatever I earn, even if it’s
just IDR20,000 a day,” she said.
Partini, one of Kamisah's
neighbors, said Kamisah is a hard worker. However, Kamisah often gets
short-changed because she can’t read the banknote.
"She is often
short-changed when shopping at the market. For example, if she buys a piece of
bread for IDR2,000 using the IDR20,000 banknote, sometimes they don’t give her
the change, but she never protests,” said Partini.
Kamisah’s poverty
forces her to eat rice only with sambal. She also needs medicine for her
illness. If you wish to support Kamisah, you can donate through the widget
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