The lockdown has been extremely difficult for parents who have their children stranded in places away from home. At this time of crisis, there are some who take the leap and are determined to get their kids back to safety.?
A 48-year-old Telangana woman braved all odds and decided to ride 1,400 km on her scooty to get her stranded son home. According to PTI, Razia Begum?set out on the arduous journey on Monday morning armed with?permission from local police.
With the ongoing lockdown, we can only imagine how terrifying it must be to be ride solo with zero traffic movement, but for Begum, nothing made a difference.? Her only goal was to keep her son safe in these hard times.?
She had packed 'rotis' to keep her from hunger pangs and rode on, making stops at fuel stations and quenching her thirst at certain points all along the way.??
"It was a difficult journey on a small two-wheeler for a woman. But the determination to bring my son back overtook all my fears. I packed rotis and they kept me going. It was fearsome in the nights with no traffic movement and no people on roads," Ms Begum told PTI on Thursday.
She is a headmistress at a government school in Nizamabad, about 200 km from Hyderabad.
Razia Begum, who lost her husband 15 years ago, lives with her two sons, an engineering graduate, and 19-year old Nizamuddin, who aspires to become a doctor.
Her son Nizamuddin had gone to Rahamatabad in Nellore on March 12 to drop his friend and stayed back there. Meanwhile, the lockdown was announced following the coronavirus outbreak and he could not return.??