Margaret Achongo

Margaret lives in Danida in a rented home.  She is married and has 7 boys and 1 girl and struggles to put them through school.  There are also 6 other children in her household, grandchildren of a daughter who died, and some nieces and nephews.   Her husband was working at a steel fabricating corporation until May 2007 when he was let go because of lack of work.  She has no business but has been making necklaces. Margaret moved to Jinja in 1986. She ran from the Pader District to Jinja in 1986 because the LRA killed one of her nephews.  In Pader they used to dig and had a cow while her husband worked in Jinja. She has many problems.  The biggest are paying school fees and housing costs.