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Date: 2 Jul 2013 21:47
Subject: Our Lives - looking up
To: "Elisabeth Janaina" <[email protected]>
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*Our Lives - looking
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 2 July 2013 (IRIN) - Late last year, IRIN
launched the series Our Lives, which interviewed 20 men and women in 10
countries about how they coped with the cost of living. Those testimonies
have been updated <http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98286/98/>, along with
basic monthly income and expenditure data, providing a fascinating insight
into people’s domestic affairs.
Eighteen of our respondents said their household incomes had improved or
stayed the same since December 2012. For Kumari
Magar<http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98327/98/>,
a maid in Nepal, a new job helped her household earnings nearly double,
from $90 to $170. “My new employers often give us clothes and leftover
food, including vegetables each week. I hope they keep me for a long time,”
she said.
John Tamba <http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98305/98/> in Liberia also saw
his wage packet swell with a promotion from an elementary school teacher to
a district schools supervisor, although the monthly expenditure of his
six-member household on food increased by 50 percent.
In Kenya, Milicent Wanyama <http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98300/98/>’s
profits rose after she was able to add the sale of doughnuts to her
breadcrumb business in the Ngomongo slums of Nairobi (some residents cannot
afford an entire loaf), while Rashid
Minhas<http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98320/98/>in Pakistan was
struggling as a taxi driver until a friend tipped him off
to a better-paying factory job in Lahore.
Moloantoa Mokhomphatha <http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98303/98/> in
Lesotho, a builder, also feels his fortunes are beginning to change for the
better. After enrolling in horticulture courses, he is now thinking about
moving into the fruit business.
*Increases in staple costs between December 2012 and April 2013*
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Photo:
Using self-reported data, excluding ambiguous figures. Where both
respondents from a country provided clear data, averages were used
And then there are the not-so-lucky. Among them is Samir Uddin, our street
hawker in Mymensing, Bangladesh. His monthly earnings are down, his food
bill is up, and he is struggling to repay a $400 loan he took out last
year. “Either the government should control food prices or introduce a
rationing system for the poor. Otherwise, we cannot survive,” he told IRIN.
Security guard Keyi Chaplain
Paul<http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98319/98/>in South Sudan also
saw his household income fall; his wife lost some of
her pigs as a fine after they broke into a neighbour’s farm and ate the
crops.
Food price increases have been the bane of virtually all the respondents
interviewed. In Lesotho, maize flour was up by over 100 percent, and rice
and vegetables by 40 percent in Nepal, they told IRIN. In a number of
cases, people admitted to belt-tightening to get by.
Other changes in people’s lives over the last several months include a baby
for restaurateur Mama Tembely
Coulibaly<http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98326/98/>in Mali, a new
husband for Lorpu
Kah <http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98328/98/> in Liberia, and a touch of
celebrity status for Liliana Lova
Rahoaritsalamanirinarisoa<http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/98324/98/>,
who was featured on Madagascar TV as a result of this series.
Stay tuned for the next IRIN instalment.
oa/rz
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