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Florence is thirty-eight years old and is married with seven children.
At the moment, four of her children do not go to school. Two for financial
reasons and two because they are too young.
They are sending one of their eldest son to college. The college fees are
expensive at ush150,000 ($US75.00) a term, but the hope that their son will get
a good job and will be able to provide for them.
Her husband is a boda-boda driver and earns about ush5,000 ($US2.52) a day.
Her husband grows cassava, maize and tomatoes in the farm around her house.
They consume all they group They can afford to buy meat about once a month.
Florence sustained some injuries when she gave birth to her young twins and so she
is unable to help on the farm.
Florence purchased one hundred chickens a year ago. Only thirty-seven remain.
The rest have died of various diseases. She sells one tray of eggs a day for
ush3,000 ($US1.51).
She wishes she
could afford to buy some mosquito nets to keep her children healthy
and that her son gets a job so that she can have all her children in school.
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