Ms. Quach Ngoc Nham, from Hoa Binh, is working for an electronic components manufacturing company in Thach That Industrial Park.
With a temperature of 32-37 degrees Celsius, Ms. Nham's family's rented room is so hot and stuffy that it feels like any movement can make you sweat.
The main activities of the 3 people, including the mother-in-law, Ms. Nham and the 9-month-old boy, all took place in a room of about 12 square meters with closed walls on 3 sides, no windows, only 1 entrance. Each month, Ms. Nham has to pay 1.4 million VND for renting a house, plus about 200,000 VND for electricity and water.
"But this May, the total rent for houses, electricity, and water will probably be up to 2 million VND because I have to use fans all day and night" - Ms. Nham shared.
Ms. Nham said that she chose to rent here because the rental house is separate, not because the rooms are close together. The reason is that her child is too young, when stirred up by crying, it will affect the next room.
Every day, when Ms. Nham goes to work, her mother-in-law stays at home to look after her grandchild. The pumpkin rental room often let her grandchild go on a street. In the past few days, the heat has just increased, so the "frquency" of grandparents and grandchildren going out has increased.
A few years ago, due to the hot and pumpkin rental, Ms. Nham and her husband tried to save up to buy air conditioners. When she returned to her hometown in Hoa Binh to have a second child, the couple took off the air conditioners and brought them back to their hometown. Hanoi now begins in the hot season but before the air conditioners can be installed, they have to endure the heat.
When asked why she did not buy a new air conditioner, Ms. Nham said: Currently, her husband is in Hoa Binh, doing nothing, with an older daughter; she works under a small child's regime, without overtime, so her income is about 7-10 million VND. There is so much money to cover both families' living expenses, so we have to save...
The scene of boarding houses where workers live in pumpkins, hot and stuffy when summer comes is very popular. Every family with young children tries to install air conditioners, but they use all their savings and certainly have to reduce another expense to compensate for the cost of buying a machine and paying for electricity. Like Ms. Nham's house, to save money, it is difficult to move air conditioners between Hanoi and Hoa Binh.
In a rented house lacking natural light but overloaded with heat and tung tung tung at 5pm, Ms. Nham told us: "The past few days have been too hot, the baby sleeps at night and sweats so tightly, so it is expected that this Sunday my husband will bring the air conditioner down from Hoa Binh, then hire an installation worker, but the night he can't sleep because of the heat, the day when grandmother has to work hard to carry him out to the street to get some air like this is too much".
Many workers' families living near industrial parks are also in the same "excessive" situation due to the hot weather at the beginning of the season.
Hopefully everyone will find a solution before the summer sunns come to ensure their health.
