Ch­agua­nas res­i­dent Char­maine Sa­hadeo re­ceived a much-need­ed fan and re­frig­er­a­tor on Thurs­day from the Freema­sons.

The 42-year-old moth­er of two suf­fers from neu­rofi­bro­mato­sis, a ge­net­ic dis­or­der that caus­es tu­mours to form all over the body. Dozens of nod­ules have made her al­most un­recog­nis­able.

Lumps of vary­ing sizes cov­er al­most every inch of Sa­hadeo’s body and head.

Sa­hadeo shies away from leav­ing her house be­cause of her con­di­tion. She is un­able to work and de­pends on a $2,000 dis­abil­i­ty grant from the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment.

How­ev­er, Sa­hadeo said this does not meet all the needs of her and her fam­i­ly.

Sa­hadeo’s plight was fea­tured on Guardian Me­dia on Ju­ly 31, 2022. It caught the at­ten­tion of David Lums­den, Ex­cel­lent Com­pan­ion of the Dis­trict Grand Roy­al Arch Chap­ter of T&T Freema­sons, who ral­lied the or­gan­i­sa­tion to as­sist the moth­er of two.

Lums­den said af­ter see­ing Sa­hadeo’s plight high­light­ed in the me­dia, the char­i­ty com­mit­tee of his or­gan­i­sa­tion de­cid­ed to as­sist Sa­hadeo ur­gent­ly.

“Promis­es were made to her that haven’t ma­te­ri­alised and we thought that we would come for­ward very quick­ly and try to get her go­ing with what­ev­er she needs. Our ob­jec­tive is to leave her in a bet­ter con­di­tion than we found her.”

The Freema­son de­liv­ered a re­frig­er­a­tor and fan to Sa­hadeo at her Ed­in­burgh 500 home.

Sa­hadeo said she was very hap­py with the gifts and said they would ease some of the bur­dens she has been faced with.