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Hajara Naiki

40 years old
Naggalama Uganda

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Hajara  takes care of her six children.  Hajara's husband abandoned her and her family to be with another woman.  

Hajara works very hard to keep her children in school.  Sometimes it is just too hard and the children get sent home from school because they haven't paid their school fees.

Hajara rents a small piece of land for ush10,000 ($US5.41) a month.  She has signed a three month lease.  On the land she grows cassava, beans and sweet potato.  She uses all that she grows to ensure that here family eats at least twice a day - usually lunch and supper.

Like nearly everybody else in her village of Naggalama, her family is ravaged by malaria.  Each of her children gets malaria between two and three times per month.  She cannot afford a mosquito net, or even enough bedding for her children.

Some of her children suffer from septic ulcers as well.  She treats these with tablets that she buys form the local clinic.  The tablets cost her ush300 ($US0.16) each.

Her greatest wish, like most African women, is to ensure that her children get a good education.  She'd like them to go to a better school and have a better chance at getting a good job.


 
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