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We plan to solve our immediate needs with the transfer. Firstly, we'll spend about $300 on food and clothes for our children. We'll then have food security for about three months and focus on farming.
Due to the food shortage we plan to plant maize and vegetables. This will cost about $250, maize will sort our long term needs and the vegetables immediately because of their short term nature.
Additionally, we plan to invest in cows and goats. They do well here, cows provide milk and can be sold. Goats breed faster and easily marketable. It will help solve our financial needs. We plan to spend the rest of the transfer on livestock.
What is the happiest part of your day?
We depend on farming and recently before the floods we were able to harvest an acre of water melons. This gave us some money to support our family. Farming makes us happy since it raises good amount of money.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Since we depend on charcoal burning for a living it's hard getting money sometimes. The road is bad and when it rains buyers don't come to the village. It has made our lives hard since they may also buy at very low prices.
The money we get can hardly support us due to the high cost of basic commodities such as food.
