Clare O'Mara

And now, even with tomorrow, and the school, in fairness, they've been very good.

They've been trying to keep everybody up to date as much as they can.

But they can't even tell us if the school is going to be open tomorrow.

So I've had to contact my employer to say, listen, I don't think I'll be in.

I'm a care worker, so I have to let them know in advance for them to cover my schedule tomorrow to make sure that the little ladies and men that I would look after tomorrow will still get their calls.

So they're not left waiting for somebody to call to them and, you know, get them out of bed, which means I'm down a day's pay.

And I have to I have to make a call within the next hour or two as to whether I can attend work tomorrow, not knowing if the kids are going to school tomorrow.

Well, I have one in first year and then I have one in fifth class and one in sixth class.

So I have three in a row.

Not quite, yeah, yeah.

But getting close to it.

Not quite, but almost.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Absolutely.

They're all coming into that pre-teen, teenage years where they need to be showering every day, every second day at least.

And that is just not possible.

There are estates here in Bolivar that have no water since Sunday.

They are travelling 20 to 25, sometimes even 30 to 40 kilometres to friends, parents, relatives to try and bring the family in tow to have showers.

You know, and this is daily since Sunday and it's absolutely not acceptable in this day and age.

There was a truck.