Eunice Tongi
Age: 52Number of children and ages: 5 children (33, 32, 30, 27 and 23 years old)
Job: No job
Eunice is a single mother.
Her husband passed away in 2006 from HIV.
Eunice is affected by HIV as well.
She needs to go see a doctor every 3 months to collect medication which she has to take every day.
She struggles to pay for her hospital visits and medication.
Eunice’s first 4 children live away from home, so she only lives with the youngest child.
Her youngest child attends university, but Eunice struggles to pay the fees.
Eunice receives some food from her neighbors’ farms.
Eunice and her family eat only in the evenings, mostly potatoes, green bananas and Ugali.
They live in a 4 room house with a kitchen, however this offers little protection.
They collect rain water and pay for electricity.
