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Madalyn lives with her husband and their seven children - aged from one to seventeen
years. Two of her children are unable to go to school due to economic reasons.
They own their own farm and cultivate cassava, beans, potato and maize. They
also grew coffee, but their entire crop was destroyed by a virus. Most of
what they grow is consumed with a small portion sold at that local market.
They have two meals a day - breakfast and supper. During the dry seasons
- when the crops are much less productive - they are reduced to one meal a
day.
Madalyn and some of her children walk a five kilometer round trip every morning
to fetch six jerry cans worth of water for cooking and cleaning.
Malaria is a serious problem for Madalyn and her family - particularly her younger
children. The medicine costs around ush4,000 ($US2.16) per bout of malaria.
Madalyn's family lack soap for cleaning, salt for flavoring and paraffin to power
the oil lamps.
She hopes people
will buy GrassRootsUganda.com products as they are all natural
and use recycled materials.
Madayln's greatest wish is to become a trader.
She would love to buy cheap
clothes in Kampala and then sell them at a profit in her own village.
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