|
Annet is eighteen years old and was forced to drop of of school in her third year
of high school due to lack of funds. She would like to return to school one
day and finish her studies. Ideally, she would like to go to university and
study business management. She understands that this
will almost certainly
be just a dream - the fees are just too high.
Annet would love to get married one day and have some children of her own.
She would love to have four children - two boys and two girls.
She stays with her sister, her brother-in-law and their three children. They
are also looking after another brother's son - the brother's wife refused to take
care of him because he came from an affair.
Annet helps out by collecting the jerry cans of water from the well that is two-and-a-half
kilometers away. She knows that they should boil the water before she drinks
it, but they barely have enough fuel to cook the food.
Together, as a family, they tend to their small rented farm. The pay ush20,000
($US10.81) per year for the farm. They grow cassava, potato, matooke (green
bananas) and vanilla. The vanilla used to fetch ush30,000 ($US16.22) a kilo,
but the market has plummeted and now the vanilla fetches only ush1,000 ($US0.54)
a kilo.
Her brother-in-law also makes bricks when he can. One brick sells locally
for ush40 ($US0.02).
Her greatest wish is to preach the Word of God to people both here in Ugandan and
all over the world. She would say that there is no doubt that Jesus is the
Son of God and that He manages everything.
|