Green eyed monster?

My poor toothless wonder was robbed blind the other day when I was away. She is a divorcee and I have such respect for her – she has got on with her life since her husband stitched her up, she has worked, earned money, looked after and done well for her family and lives an independent liberated life. She got a call at work one day last week from her daughter who had returned home to see that the house had been ransacked, not only did they steal all her jewellry (which in this culture is the woman’s only personally owned wealth, received on her wedding day) and her cash, but they took clothes, they tore down the curtains and turned everything inside out, even taking some tea and sugar from the store. She is devasted, so fragile all of a sudden; where she used to be a little buffalo, now she is a saggy bag.

My first thoughts after the sadness for her is that this was carried out by jealous people, people who see that she has some small wealth and in difficult times she wants for little in her little world. This thought makes me angry.

Another thought is that she has been targeted because she works with me, a foreigner and my organisation, and firstly people therefore think she earns a lot of money and secondly they might have some kind of objection to that like the hard liners do. Or along those lines people might object to her being such a self sufficient, earning, liberated woman. This thought makes me worried.
Finally I come to a thought that maybe this is just about poverty, maybe as I know there are, many people have very little in this city and my toothless wonder is not one of them. She has some things, she has her own two roomed house, her own income and makes her own decisions. Maybe this is just about those that don’t have anything seeing those that have such things and taking them, even their tea and sugar