Friday, January 22, 2010
Excerpt: Mistori Kibibi and her family work their small plot of land in southern Tanzania growing red onions. It's harvest time, and she's waiting for the buyer to arrive. Every year, he buys her onions and ships them to local and regional markets where they are prized as some of the best onions in this part of Africa. Every year, it's been the same -- his price is always low, but she has no choice. She and hundreds of other nearby families have no other way to ship their onions to market. She will tell you that if the families could get together, buy a truck and build a small storage shed, they could use their leverage as a larger group to quadruple their incomes. She could send her children to school. Their lives would be transformed...
Source:
The Huffington Post