Receiving this money would mean that we would be able to finally mould bricks and build ourselves a house. We have always wanted to live in such a house so yes we believe this cash would be the right push to finally achieve that dream. Building a house would cost us about 200 thousand kwacha. The remaining money from that project we'd buy fertilizer with and apply in our maize field just so we are food secure from our bumper yield that we believe we are to achieve next year.

In june we sold our soy at 54thousand kwacha and this brought me and my family joy because this is the largest sum of money we have ever gotten at once in our lives. Up to now it still feels surreal.

We depend on agricultural produce selling business. We sell soy and maize from part of our yearly harvests. Now, the challenge we are facing is low profits from our sales. For example, in the previous years we would get abour 13 or 14 thousand kwacha per bag of soy at Mayani trading centre but these days we are only offered 10 thousand for the same quantity we used to get more from. We feel this is a loss and it affects our means to afford and access some basic needs such as food, clothing and other services as a household.