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welcome to Castle Akana district in central ganda here Merriam never Tansy's
like any other woman if you walked first half but get to her home are you may be
forgiven for thinking this is the boarding section of a spoof Namit ours
is 39 years old and has mothered 44 children already 38 are alive today you
had right 44 children all delivered normally everything here is done
massively with near military precision 22 kilograms of sugar the question is
how did this all begin for Nava tansy first she was married off to young age
13 and started having children immediately in my heart I wish to have
six children I give birth four times and in each occasion I had twins eight
children were more than what which was Peter to ask the doctors to stop me from
having babies the doctors carried out tests and said
it would be risking my life if they stopped me I was too frightened to stop
I went back home and conceived with triplets five children at once and then
two times more with 23 kids I thought it was too much and they went back to
hospital but the doctor said they couldn't stop me without risking death
I was pretty hell of a natural-born pain ecologist say it's possible to be this
fatale although not commonplace but once you have these many children my
question then is how hard is it to name these children we both break into a
powder laughter we is different when they start having twins I bought a book
of sweet big names from there in the husband and scuffling and I didn't be
surprised to see a Mohammedan I Dennis we'd pick from it said let me look for
ancestral name when the numbers got bigger I began taking names of my
favorite movies especially in Hollywood a good Sierra's wishes aqua this mode
eludes Genevieve Neji and so on when you hear this kind of story you must be
wondering where the man responsible for all this procreation is well when I
posed this question I have had to put up with a lot he stuttered me so much he
abused me beat me up sometimes and threatened to kill me once he pays no
school fees no does he even know what we survival unashamedly he comes and it's
what he didn't leave home he's not part of his children's names where we are now
I bought with my own money and from doing little jobs here and there he was
in utter shock to learn at both and built this place her biggest challenge
is looking after these children with an absentee father for most of waited
school fees and feeding the children 14 of her children are in primary school
where she has to pay more than 5 million she's in school Jews for Tom this is
equivalent to around $1,500 another 10 children in secondary school some have
been forced to drop out of school as the bill spirals out of control her dream is
to educate all her children so that they may get a better life not like what
she's been through to find all this she learnt many skills including cake making
bricklaying decorations tailoring cooking and Huba medicine
she hates having to beg there is no end to Miriam Navotas history it's powerful
it's captivating yet somehow I have to find a way to say goodbye so what's our
missing I was in a meeting you tune the Havana but my message is mainly to
parents stop selling its children through early marriages who suffer too
much while losing out in parental love that can never be reckoned li to the
mothers in the desert your children as you work out of marriage whatever the
kiss stick to and with your children extremely few that had my mother not my
father would not have married me of young to them in please show their
responsibilities don't leave it to the women man puts up a shop for you and the
imagine all issue buying anything anymore at home he forced us to become
like men between you status as Lin show us love and let us do a responsive it's
hard to hold back my own tears knowing so many examples of what she's referring
to Maryam only sleeps for a maximum of five
hours a day the rest of her day is dedicated to the children it would have
been good to know what her neighbors make of her but time wasn't on my side
but don't be surprised if she's declared the woman with the most number of
children in the world from one man Kasim Chaya as a news the
south Vanda