An elderly woman named Fatime Zogu was invited today to the “Albania Live” program on Top Channel to talk about her passion for books, despite the difficult conditions and poverty in which she lives.
She says that she spends a good part of her time reading books and that they have become part of her day. Because of her passion, the son of the writer Mitrush Kuteli handed over his father’s translations to the elderly woman himself.
Fatima says before she used to read secretly because her husband was jealous. Every time he left the house, mother Fatima opened the books and read. She says that now she has eye problems, and she can’t see out of one eye at all, but that hasn’t stopped her.
What stands out in her story is that the woman lives in miserable conditions. She has been living for four years in a former warehouse in Farka, near the capital, which is not a house and does not have suitable living conditions. Mother Fatima says that she has not paid the rent for almost a year and that the owner of the place helped her and did not allow her to live on the street.
“It’s a shack, what falls from the sky falls in my room. Yesterday, when I returned home, I found it full of water”, says the elderly woman who has just been discharged from the hospital.
The 73-year-old has been offered an opportunity to go to an retiring home, where she has been before, but she refuses to go for private reasons.
The only thing that Mother Fatima wants is to have a warm room. She does not use any electrical equipment because she is afraid it could cause a fire. So she is forced to live in the cold.
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