Doreas Wangari
Age: 39Number of children and ages: 5 children (19, 16, 13, 8 and 6 years old)
Job: No job
Doreas is a single mother.
She divorced her husband in 2002 due to him physically abusing Doreas when he got drunk.
Since she got divorced her husband has never supported the family.
Doreas’ children go to primary and secondary schools, but Doreas struggles to pay the school fees.
Doreas receives some food from her neighbors’ farms and the family eats evenings in a week only.
Their diet is maize and Ugali.
They live in a 2 room house with a kitchen, however this offers little protection and they have to use a river for water and tin lamps for light.