Family Dreams

54.	Are you satisfied with your lifestyle?
	Yes. When we get good crops. No, when we don't--it's
	very frustrating.

55.	Do you consider yourselves better off than your parents 
	and grandparents?  
	We are worse off. Farming is more difficult. Our lives have 
	shortages. There has been some improvement with a fairly new 	gravel road built by the East Germans to reach the cement 	factory in Muger.  

56.	What would your family like to own that you think 
	would make your  lives better?
	Our lives improve when we have a good crop. Also, we would 
	like more animals, seeds, farm implements.

57.	Do you have any savings or security?
	None, except the animals.

58.	When and how are you planning for retirement?
	We have no plans for retirement. When we can no longer 
	manage on our own, we will be taken in by one of our children.

59.	How would you make your children's lives better?
	Send them to school. We see no other way to improve their 
	lives except by educating them to the highest level. We see no 
	hope of them surviving as farmers.

60.	What kind of future do you see for your children?
	The future is very dim for them to continue here as farmers.  
	We are full of worry that our children will face a life
	of poverty.

61.	What are the children's ambitions?
	Teshome: I want to be a farmer like my father.
	Like: I want to be a student--beyond that I do not know.