My names are Buteesa Ruth I am a widow with two children. My hope for this week I hope to go and plant beans and also to plant some potatoes and transfer some banana stems. My hope for this month is to go and weed the crops I planted with my children.
My hope for the year I hope to start a small business of chicken learning so that I can earn some money that will help me to pay school fees for my children. My hope to rear more chicken for this period and when they are done their O and A level studies I hope to take them to technical schools to learn how they can start their own business in life and I have hope that God will allow that to happen.
I wake up in the morning I go to the garden to dig and weed my crops with my hand hoe. I have to find food that I will cook for my children, when I reach home I go to bring some water with the Jeri can from the well on my head so that I can use it for cooking.
After my meal I rest then in the evening at around 4;00 I go back to the garden again it keeps me going because I am always busy. The children help at home I send them at the shop or any where to go and bring what we need at home. They are still young although they are learning each work by the day.
My community I really work together with the people of the community and we all like each other because sometimes if I have no paraffin or salt I can go and ask any one of the community because sometimes I might fail to get the money to buy. My relatives I really don’t have much to do with them because even they cannot help me.
It is just me alone who have to face it all to help my children so I have to do what I can to make them live. The whole tribe is not of any help because they are my in-laws. When Christmas comes I am always very happy with my children because we are always excited because we eat all kinds of food on that day we eat meat, bananas, rice, chicken, potatoes and cassava all at one day.
The need to take care of your own children. They are victims of your own fate. I make sure I have food at home most of the time. When I have extra food I go and sale in the market so it really helps me to support myself and the family
I have a friend who came here where I live and told me she has someone who needs someone to help her at her home that is how the idea came of planting a garden. Being a rural village there are not many jobs so I created my own employment which feeds my family. No it has taken me years of cultivating the land.
The women around the village helped me and also the middlemen from Kampala who buy in large quantities. I usually check with the other sellers and determine my price depending on the size of the bunches or the harvest. There many sellers but with different products. My advantage is my pricing and quality of my produce. I really like it to be my own boss I just look for place and start a job weather a diary for milk, vegetable and food.