Hagar Taalab from Desouk, a city located in the northern Egyptian governorate of Kafr al-Sheikh, raised a banner stating her willingness to sell her three children to provide accommodation, food and medical treatment for her and her husband.

The family needed a place to stay after they had been forced to leave their apartment, consisting of just one room and a hall, as they could not afford to pay the rent, reports the Albawaba.

Taalab told Al-Masry Al-Youm that she appealed to Desouk’s city mayor Bassiouny Zaid, who granted the family temporary accommodation in the form of a state-owned shop.

However, the family had been forced to leave the shop after it was sold, whereby the city authorities handed it over to its new owner, said Taalab.