Raquine Mashava Group 2
Adopt this farmer Reg Code: Mab92/28
Fight for water - Donate Reg.Code : Mab59285
Inter area visits - Donate Reg Code: Mab92/124
Local pig farming-Donate Reg Code: Mab92/84
Raquine first only said that she very old and does not know her age. I was thinking that she must be in her late sixties. Her grand children then brought her ID card. She was 87 years old, but still as strong as young women. Her husband, Joze, died a few years ago, but she continues to look after the 13 dependants in her house. She had 12 children of which 2 have died as babies. Her one daughter died when she gave birth to her first child. Also the husband of that child died, but the baby stayed alive and lives with her grand-mother. When it started raining in November 2016, one of her children who work in South-Africa sends some money for her to hire some people to help her to plant. That made her very happy and she had a very good crop that can provide food until the end of 2017. If she would get a lot of money, she would solve the water problem and then drag all the people by their ears to go de-bushing every day. She owns 3 cattle, 30 chickens, 10 goats, 60 cashew nut trees and 1 mango tree. She told us about the old days when there were no people in the area, especially no old people. Now there are lots of old people and all people are happy. She is a beautiful person.
Her income is more or less Mt 8000/year (USD150), but she does not count the food that she uses for all the people who eat at her house, because everything is produces there.