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Fausta lives in one of the large family homes in Buvunya with nineteen other people.
She left her husband about seven years ago when he got a girlfriend. Her husband
claimed that he would take care of their five children and so she made the hard
decision of leaving them with him and his new girlfriend. He was not good on his promise and the children gradually returned to Fausta one by one. According
to Fausta, he provides no parental love whatsoever and the kids haven't seen him
for years.
Her three youngest children (13, 14 and 15) live with her. She cannot afford
to send anyone of them to school. Her two eldest live in Gulu and Jinja where
they are sponsored by local families who provide food and accommodation.
Fausta pays for the school fees.
She earns money by digging other peoples' land. She earns about ush10,000
($US5.04) for the three days a month she can dig.
She has also rented a piece of land for ush50,000 ($US25.19) a year. She hopes
to raise enough money from it to send her kids to school.
She has chest pains that cost her ush20,000 ($US10.08) a month in healthcare.
Since there are twenty people in the household, all earning a piecemeal income,
they can only eat one meal a day.
Her long term dream is to start her own catering business. In the meantime
she wishes that you would buy her product so that she
could feed her children.
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