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Elderly widowers during an empowerement meeting at Ogongo trading center in Homa Bay County. [James Omoro, Standard]
Left to carry the burden of their families alone, several widowers in Mbita, Homa Bay County, are undergoing a rough patch while trying to balance parental roles.
With the deaths of their wives taking a heavy toll on their psychological and emotional well-being, some of these men, until recently when the Widowers’ Health, Empowerment and Support organisation came to their rescue, kept their tribulations to themselves.
William Ochieng is one of the widowers. The 71-year-old lost his wife way back in 2004. He re-married another immediately, but the second wife also died a year later.
