Reflective Essay: Dollar Per Day

It is not easy in this area to say people live above $2.50. Remember business people in this area are a few, they are the minority. The majority of people are small peasants and pastoralists, so we are still in less than a $1 a day. I can say far below from a dollar per day. I don’t know how to say it, it is far below a dollar per day because when a farmer harvest, for example, in Mara, the majority of them cultivate maize, Millet, sorghum, beans, cassava, some of them tobacco and cotton a little bit when you go to Bunda and so forth. But when you look at all these crops, farmers predict the climatic condition of their area is a semi-desert like-So they cultivate crops that fit in the dry season. Yet even farmers engage in commercial farming, the government is not ready to prepare the market for them, where to sell their produce. They become discouraged. They don’t know where to sell, they are discouraged. For example, this year many farmers failed, and they thought agriculture would rescue their lives, but they found no market, they sold low price of oppression, this is what we …show more content…
For example, I live with my dad, and the children of my late brother all of them have no support other than me. It continues to affect my income and my personal plan for education. I planned at least to acquire a BA degree by 2010. I had an employment in 1999 after completion of the ordinary level secondary school. Since I had no money to go to school, I did private high school, and thank God, I went to Teachers College after that. Yet the plan for a BA degree is still pending, I don’t know until when. I have many responsibilities under my care. I cannot secure a loan for education, because I had a loan already for private needs at home. It will take time to pay back the