Lourenco Cherenga Group 3
Adopt this farmer Reg Code: Mab95/28
Fight for water - Donate Reg.Code : Mab95/85
Inter area visits - Donate Reg Code: Mab95/124
Local pig farming-Donate Reg Code: Mab95/84
Lourenco is 39 years and his wife, Louisa, is 32 years. They had 6 children, but one baby died. There are 7 people who eat at his house every day.
The family has 1 goat and 22 Cashew nut trees and their field where they plant. He is just sad, because he never saw his father and also his mother died in 2016. Their one baby that died has also been very bad for them. When his mother was still alive they were always thinking and talking about how poor they are. Now they do not think like that anymore. His hands are working and there is enough food for the children. The times are good now.
His “never forget “story: his father has not been strong for the things for the war. He took the family and ran away to Massinga area, just to find that there is also war. They stayed there for a while, but there has been no food. Then his mother said that she rather want to come back to her house, because here she at least know what to do. The father never agreed and stayed behind in Massinga. Only his mother and all the children came back home. They started then to work again in their fields and gathered food where they knew the area. The children grew up and he himself took his wife and continues to work and make food. They are happy for what their mother have done for them to bring them back home. His father never returned until he got sick. He then came back to die at home.
If he would get a lot of money to help agriculture in the area he will make one very big farm for the community and have a lot of cattle and pigs on that farm.
Their income is more or less Mt 60 000 / year (USD 1000)