{"id":3618,"date":"2016-05-04T12:56:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:21:16","slug":"enterprisingsamada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/enterprisingsamada\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprising Samada’s a role model for others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samada Masanda’s the leader of her local farmers’ group. \u00a0She’s a small-scale farmer, a business woman, a mother.<\/p>\n

For 38 year old Samada, and for others in her community of Kazinga village in south-west Uganda , life is changing for the better.<\/p>\n

\u2018In the past, parents here didn’t\u00a0bother to educate girls. But now they\u2019ve seen that women like me can be leaders, so they educate all their children.\u2019<\/p>\n

Aged just 17 when her father died, Samada was taken out of school by her widowed mother and was married.<\/p>\n

\"Samada_350\"<\/a>Without\u00a0any formal training, Samada had few options other than to become a farmer. \u00a0option. She has no regrets, and says that 20 years working the land has allowed her to raise a family. She does, however, crave a different story for her own daughters:<\/p>\n

\u2018My dream is for my three daughters to complete school so they have the opportunities that I didn\u2019t.\u2019<\/p>\n

But school fees are expensive and life in the Ugandan countryside is unpredictable.
\nJust two years ago Samada\u2019s harvest failed due to drought. As a result she recalls the family survived for weeks on just one crop: \u00a0\u2018We ate cassava for breakfast, lunch and supper.\u2019<\/p>\n

Support that she received as a member of a\u00a0Self Help Africa savings project helped her however.<\/p>\n

Able to access a \u2018booster loan\u2019 of 200,000 Ugandan shillings (\u20ac60), six months ago Samada opened a small store. She now works every day on her farm, and each evening in the store, trading goods she buys at a weekly market. \u00a0She also sells chickens across the border in nearby Democratic Republic of Congo, and buys palm oil and brushes there, that she sells in her small shop.<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t earn a great deal,\u00a0but the diversification of income has given her family a new certainty in life she has long craved. As Samada\u00a0observes:<\/p>\n

\u2018Farming and business are both uncertain, but now if one fails I know I can still make money from the other.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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