Teressa Madoma Nhari 

 

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Teressa does not belong to any group . She works on her own , because her piece of land is seperate from the other farmers .

Teressa is 44 years old. Her husband, Alberto, died in the year 2000. Teressa had 4 children of which one died as a baby. Her husband also had 3 other wives when he died and they all helped to do the work, but after he died the other 3 wives left and she was alone to do the work. The other wives also had 2 small children which they left with her. Teressa had to bring them up.

Sad story: When her husband died and all the other wives left, live was very bad for Teressa. They used to be a relatively rich family, because her husband was a very good carpenter and had a good business. On the farm they have been 4 wives who could do a lot of work and there were never a shortage of food.

Happy story: Her own children are all big now and left to make their own lives , but the 2 extra children that she has raised are the once that stayed. They are looking after her and help her with the work. The one thing that made her sad after her husband died, is the thing that make her the happiest now. She is very happy that she looked after those 2 children.

If Teressa could have a lot of money to change agriculture in her area, she would use all money to de-bush and to put up water systems.

Teressa now has got 2 goats, 134 cashew nut trees and 3 citrus trees. Many things died during the previous long drought period.

Her income is more or less USD 50 per year.

How can you help Teressa?

  1. The main thing that she need is some hand labor to help her to clean her farm to have it prepared to plant when the rain comes. She has not got the money to pay for people and cannot do all the work by herself.
  2. She needs assistance to pay for an ox-team to come and plough her land of 3 ha. An ox handler will charge her Mt7500 or R5000 or USD 120 for that.
  3. She would like to get some money to buy new seed and a few water containers.