Haawa is mother to six children, and a widow - her husband died of AIDS last year. She looks after three of the children herself, and the rest are looked after by her mother in a nearby town.
All of Haawa's children go to school, though one child has missed the second and third terms of school because Haawa could just not afford it.
Haawa has recently taken out a loan for ush150,000 ($81.08) to help her set up a business. At the moment she is selling: Mats (made by her), cassava chips (very yummy by the way), jipatis, samosas, greens and cassavas.
The room she rents to sell her goods cost ush10,000 ($US5.41) per month.
Her children offer suffer from coughing and flu like symptoms. She feels her children don't get enough food - the eat twice a day - and this is not helping their general health.
She would like it if people bought necklaces and crafts from GrassRootsUganda.com because Ugandans are poor but try very hard.
Her greatest wish would be to stop living in the room she sells her goods from and move into a proper home that her and her children could live in. She also wishes that her children could be well clothed and educated.
She would also love to visit craft exhibitions all over Uganda so she can what other crafts they could make. She likes the idea of a co-operative as they help everyone in the craft group.