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It's been 14 long years of struggle for Sharon Tennant, 55, ever since gunmen's bullets pierced her body, forcing doctors to take her leg.

Tennant was shot by armed robbers who invaded her home on June 11, 2005 in Olympic Gardens.

Ever since the near-fatal attack, Tennant has been sitting on King Street begging passers-by for assistance.

"I lost my right leg, and my right arm mash up still. They broke my house and took everything weh me did have. I now have to be out on the streets seeking for help, but nobody nuh really interested and can help me. Me a try fi build a likkle place but me nuh really wah disclose where that is cause a nuh everybody me want fi know that," she said.

Tennant said that since the attack, she has been unable to work.

"Me jus up and down and me woulda really like fi settle down and have everything back, so me need some help. It rough living without a leg and caa move round by yuh self and everything. I used to do selling and go around ... when somebody needed someone to help wash or whatever, I would do that," she said.

Tennant says people may think that she gets offers of assistance, but that's not the case. Plus, she says that her children are unable to assist as they have their own burden.

"Me have a son and three other daughters, but dem not working and dem have kids to take care of and their own responsibilities. My smallest daughter, she was about 17 when I was shot and she was traumatised and all of that. Week before last Sunday, gunman held her up (her eldest daughter) and tek weh hair money and took everything. So everything just mash up," Tennant said.

Despite the hardships she and her family have faced, she says she is sure there is a God out there working on her behalf.

When asked if she's afraid when sitting on the road alone, she assured THE STAR that she wasn't.

"Me afi just pray. Yuh see sometimes, yuh afi just leave everything in a the hands of God because God do everything. Everything! A God me put my trust in a. Me nuh fraid a weh man can do, only God."

Anyone who wishes to assist Sharon Tennant can contact her at 876-793-9209.