from jack...Mativi has a smile that will knock you over. She is slight but built with steel under her skin, and worked a 12 hour work day on the construction site in 100 degree heat without much of a break, if she even took one. She laughed and smiled with us as we tried to learn everyone’s names, but kept the work flow moving the entire time. Three years ago, she married a man who was a con artist of some sort. After living with her two years, he liquidated their dowry, sold all their goods, and then ran off with the profits, leaving Mativi and their 2 year old daughter without anything. They later found that this man has done this with other women, but the prospects of his returning to her are slim if any. Mativi has done her best to provide for herself and her daughter by working as a day laborer whenever possible, but I wish you could have seen her eagerness at the prospect of having 3 goats with which to begin to work!
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