Daily Life
Many villagers have bicycles but no one has a car and buses transport people to the nearest town of Bunda and beyond.
Around 8% of the people actually earn a wage; the remainder are subsistence farmers who grow crops for their own needs
and the surplus is sold to buy other essential commodities. The land is cultivated by hand, using a hoe,
with all the family taking part. With a team of oxen, funded by Coley, and a plough, provided by the village,
they have been able to dig deeper and to cultivate more land to plant crops. By ploughing deeper,
the poor soil is being improved. After harvest, the crop is stored in traditional storage units.
The primary school education is not free and each pupil is expected to pay a sum
of money towards the cost of education. The school starts at 7.30 am and finishes around 3.30 pm.
The school lacks essentials such as desks, chairs, textbooks, stationary, sports gears etc.
Electricity, water, drainage, sanitation or telephones are not generally available in the area.
Families are largely self-sufficient using money raised by selling the surplus of their harvest or livestock
to buy things they cannot rear, catch or grow, such as clothes or bicycles.
