Rice in the Rainy Season

The Samura family lives in a single bed room apartment in Sierra Leone with no running water but with electricity.  The father Unisa is a mason and the main provider of the home with monthly income of $60, which is not enough to cover the basic needs of the home. The mother, August, is a seamstress and a volunteer within her community; she helps take care of the kids and provide for the home. Israel is the eldest child and attends the Wesleyan primary school and he is in class three. He wants to be a lawyer when he grows up. Israela, the daughter is not yet going to school, but usually goes with her mother to the school where she is a teaching volunteer. Admire is a dependent relative that lives with the family and attends the Wesleyan primary school; she is in class five she wants to be an Information Technologist.

The family expresses their thanks to Lisa for the bag of rice at the peak of the rainy season; this food brings relief to the family as they worry about what they can eat when food is more scarce.