"Poverty manifests itself in small things...As she weaves in and out of the aisles, you can see that every purchase is weighed, compared, agonised over. She desperately needs new saucepans, and they are reduced this week, but that would mean no vegetables, and Farzana, 13, must have those because she might be getting sick. She wants to buy pasta in bulk because it is cheaper, but can't because that leaves too little money for emergencies. "Better to get things little by little," she says. "Never know what might come up.
When a well-founded fear of persecution meets economic downturn. Very sad article, not only does the Begum worry about feeding her family, but "She lives in fear that any day she could receive a rejection letter and will be deported." I can't imagine her anxiety (link: Begum's budget), especially as she also struggles with the clash of culture between her expectations and her daughter's.
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