Getting school fees is my hope for the month because they need it at school and if I don’t pay they will send the children back home. I hope this year my children will pass their examinations well in school because I am doing my best to pay their school fees in time. My hope for my children when they grow up is to see them graduating then bring grandchildren for me.
What keeps me going are my children. Whenever I look at them it really pushes me to continue the good fight for their better future. What motivates me on a day-to-day basis is my family being healthy and my ability to provide them with meals for the day. My children are hardworking both at home and in school.
The community here helps me through parental guiding skills and our women’s group for counseling and trainings. My relatives help me with setting up meetings to settle land disputes, especially from my in-laws. The annual celebrations are always fun because they even increase on my sale of agricultural trade since more traders come to the village.
My goals and expectations keep me carrying on and what helps is my farming and trading all year round to put food on the table. I support my family through farming and trading in agricultural produce. I had a small piece of land and I decided to start farming and I sell my products to traders for a living. I choose what I would offer for sale depending on quality. The better quality agricultural produce is for sale then we eat the low quality products.
It wasn’t easy to start because I needed some capital to buy the seeds and to start trading but I start with the low priced agricultural seeds when I got the money. I start to improve but I still need more capital to produce better cash crops and expand my garden. My customers most of them come at my home and I sometimes go to local markets like wakiso market and to village traders.
I determine how much to ask depending on the quality, availability and on weather because these determine the pricing. There are some farmers who do what I do as well but I try to look for manure and I apply at least modern fertilizers to harvest very nice produce of good quality. That makes me better and I give debts to my customers and they pay after selling.