HUYSLINCI also taught her the importance of saving and borrowing, and to not sell animals if an urgent need arises in the household. She learned that animals need space that is well planned and maintained as well as how to properly feed them, and to identify disease and illness and how to treat them. HUYSLINCI, with the support of many generous Canadians, offered Florence training in caring for domestic animals and maintaining a vegetable garden. It was at that moment Florence knew that she needed to make a change for her family. I was barely growing enough crops to support all of us.”
It was hard to pay for my children’s school fees I would plead with the school not to chase our children away. “My husband was a fisherman but after he lost his job, we all suffered. Happily married to her husband and mother of three children, things weren’t always so perfect for her and her family. “In a way, they have learned a lot of skills because I guide them.”įlorence is a successful farmer, both with livestock rearing and crop growing, who lives in the Bulega Village in the Wakiso District of Uganda. “I have given each of them responsibility of caring for one goat each,” she tells us, laughing. We were struggling – and that’s when you came in.”įlorence stands smiling at her children who are busying themselves with the family’s livestock: nine goats, two pigs, 45 rabbits and seven ducks. We used to plead with the school not to chase our three children away when we were behind on fees. “After my husband lost his job as a fisherman, we suffered as a family.
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