Ndimugipfunzi Leonard

I am 59 years old.

I have 8 children.

We live in poverty, you see, we get money when we harvest. That is the money we use to allow our children to study.

In 1988.

I like the coffee trees, because I saw our parents getting money from the trees, build houses, get wives, everything someone needs. People can use the money gained from the coffee to buy all those things.

The surface of our land is simple. We don’t have many lands, but we have perhaps 0,7 hectare.

900 trees of coffee.

Besides cultivating coffee, I also practice apiculture. I do the two jobs at the same time. I am happy to build the bee houses as it helps us to buy the essentials we need.

Together with the apiculture I am able to buy the essentials needed.

The problems are vegetables to put in the land and other problems we meet when harvesting and transporting the coffee to the stations. You see, money we get from the coffee is not enough.

When we harvest, things are different. Because when we harvest, we are able to pay for our daily needs. We go out, greet our friends and are able to achieve other projects like buying animals.

Currently, we are getting older and older. You see, coffee, is hard to maintain. We have to tell our children to work hard for it. Perhaps tomorrow the coffee may be bought from us with much money. We hope the value of coffee will increase on the international market, so that we can increase our income and develop ourselves. When the price is higher, we can sell the coffee and allow ourselves to get rich.