Am Mary Lwanda i am 64 years old i am a Zambian, am a widow a mother of 6 children and i am a farmer.
I was grown up in very poor family and the village where girls education was not so important, so with my education i just ended in grade 7 and i got married at the age of 15 to a man from our village.
Though i got married at a tender age we continued with my husband to farm by then we were growing different vegetables like cabbage, rape, and Pumpkin, as the days were moving we started we bought 3 hectares farm land and we started growing maize and vegetables as the way of surviving.
In our Culture girls more important to go to School but given in marriages, which is a very bad habit. According to me my have taken them to School.
I love farming and singing.
When i rase the funds from Zidisha i want to buy 2 bags of fertiliser and buy a 30 meters horse pipe for watering the vegetable and i want to raise money to give people who are going to help me removing the ground nuts from the farm because they are now ready.
The profit i make out of farming it to buy my clothes and food at home and the one i use it buy seed, fertiliser and people that help me to work in my farm.
The loan i will be be getting fron Zidisha will be used towards my farming system as for this one i want to pesticide for splaying the tomatoes and vegetables and also the remainder i will buy fuel to to put into a water pump.
Buyinng bags of fertiliser
Am Mary Lwanda i am 64 years old i am a Zambian, am a widow a mother of 6 children and i am a farmer.
I was grown up in very poor family and the village where girls education was not so important, so with my education i just ended in grade 7 and i got married at the age of 15 to a man from our village.
Though i got married at a tender age we continued with my husband to farm by then we were growing different vegetables like cabbage, rape, and Pumpkin, as the days were moving we started we bought 3 hectares farm land and we started growing maize and vegetables as the way of surviving.
In our Culture girls more important to go to School but given in marriages, which is a very bad habit. According to me my have taken them to School.
I love farming and singing.
When i rase the funds from Zidisha i want to buy 2 bags of fertiliser and buy a 30 meters horse pipe for watering the vegetable and i want to raise money to give people who are going to help me removing the ground nuts from the farm because they are now ready.
The profit i make out of farming it to buy my clothes and food at home and the one i use it buy seed, fertiliser and people that help me to work in my farm.
The loan i will be be getting fron Zidisha will be used towards my farming system as for this one i want to pesticide for splaying the tomatoes and vegetables and also the remainder i will buy fuel to to put into a water pump.