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Hope for Brazilian and husband as embassy comes to their rescue

Brazilian Maria Antonia Barbosa Dos Santos displays her passport when neighbours visited her in Kongoni. She and her husband, Charles Ahuta, will be going to Brazil in two weeks. [PHOTOS: KEVIN TUNOI/standard]

In two weeks’ time, a Brazilian woman who has been living in deplorable conditions will be reunited with her family - 44 years since she was separated from them.

A frail Maria Antonia Barbosa Dos Santos made Kongoni in Likuyani constituency, Kakamega County, her home and has had to contend with poverty and sickness.

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