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First thing we've always wanted to do is build ourselves a house. So receiving this money means that we'd be able to finally do that and have ourselves a decent sleeping place. This would cost us about 300$ and we'd start this project in a month's time after receiving the money. The rest of the money we plan on investing it into livestock farming. For starters, we'd buy 5 goats and breed them so that they support us in future after we start selling them.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In the past 6 months my happiness has come from selling an acre of fresh maize at 65$, right there in the field. This money enabled me to buy blankets and other necessities for my 11 months old daughter. This happened in July this year.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
As a HH lack of food is the only challenge we are currently facing. For our survival we depend on nsima and this has been hard to afford lately in our family. Last year we only got 4 bags of maize field which we finished in June this year. Our current food stock is only a bag of maize which we feel is not enough for the 5 of us to see us through until the next harvest season.
