The Fiji Occasions » Mums do it robust

Whereas dads do their bit to boost a household, mums do it robust, don’t they? For rural mums particularly, their every day challenges are two-fold.

Other than the work they’re required to do on the farm, additionally they have to make sure the house is shipshape and meals are all the time available. And nobody is aware of this higher than mother-of-seven, Sereani Bulamaibure.

The Nuku, Wainimala, Naitasiri, girl goes out of her method to make sure the wellbeing of her household is precedence.

Mrs Bulamaibure sells yaqona, dalo and greens on the Suva Municpal Market to offer for her youngsters’s schooling.

She started with promoting yaqona and diversified into promoting dalo and different greens final 12 months to earn extra cash.

“Promoting available in the market has helped to pay my youngsters’s college wants as a result of I’ve some in major, secondary college and in tertiary research,” she stated.

“I’ve 4 boys and three women who all love serving to out on the farm. “My oldest son was working and final 12 months he requested if he might return to farming.

“I’ve a vegetable farm in Nuku and we usually plant dalo and yaqona.” Mrs Bulamaibure stated yaqona was the primary supply of revenue for villagers in Wainimala.

“More often than not I journey right down to promote yaqona and produce and return to the village.

Mrs Bulamaibure stated one of many important points Nuku villagers confronted was transporting their greens, root crops and produce to the primary highway.

“We don’t have a bridge so we now have to cross a river and anticipate the service on the opposite facet.

“I go away Nuku at 2.30am and usually attain Suva at 5am.” Mrs Bulamaibure’s travels to the market each week.

“I promote my items there on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and return to Nuku quickly after promoting all my yaqona and greens.

“On Tuesdays, I begin getting ready my baggage of greens, produce and yaqona to promote. “My husband and I are each farmers. We plant dalo and yaqona and the greens I purchase from farmers in Suva.

“I usually earn between $400 to $500 for the three days I promote on the Suva market however yaqona is the place we earn extra money.

“Earlier than the FijiFirst authorities launched free schooling for college students, it was our yaqona farm that helped us lots to pay for our kids’s college charges.

“I used to ship $100 each week to my son who was a scholar on the Fiji Nationwide College in Samabula,” she stated.

Mrs Bulaimaibure stated she would sleep on the lodging facility supplied at the marketplace for $2 an evening. “For us staying in Nuku Village, it’s a should that girls assist their husbands.

“In Naitasiri, there’s a saying that females ought to be simply as sturdy because the males.

“Girls shouldn’t rely on their husbands, they need to additionally assist by financially helping them.

“We the ladies are the housemakers of our household, if there are points within the household we’re the primary ones who can be requested to discover a answer.”