My name is Fride Green Mulenga, I am a Zambian and a bemba by tribe, I was born on 24th October, 1970. When I reached 8 years my parents divorced because my father became a bad drunkered such that he even stopped providing for the family,so my father decided to go to the village and us children we made up our minds to go with her together.

I started grade 1 in the village and I was going to School with sleepers because the life in the village was very difficult ,and the Schools were very far.

Now when I reached grade 7 I wrote my exams and passed so I decided to come back to Kitwe where my father left so that he could support me with my education, unfortunately upon arriving in Kitwe I found my father got married to another woman and this step mother was bad such that she could not allow my father to pay my School fees, buy me clothes and she was even stengyin food when my father is not around, and one-day she called me the police officers and acused me of smoking drugs luck enough when we reached the police station the police officers investigated on me carefully and tald my step mother that this boy doesn't smoke if he does we would have known that's why we went to School. And we went back home and I explained to my father what happened but he couldn't say anything, because of this thought that both of them didn't want me to stay at thier home so I decided to leave their home and went across Kafue river to look for peace of works and I found a certain man at a farm and I explained my situation to him after hearing my situation he gave a peace of work and a small house where to live, and started digging the 4 hectors farm land.

Due to stuation of living I stopped going to School and continue with my farm work antill, through that man who received me at his farm and his paymens I managed to buy a 1 hecto farm land and I started growing tomatoes and vegetables as the years were going I bought another 2 hectors of farm land.

Therefore, through the difficults I went through I became strong enough and had mind of working hard.

I love farming very much.

The business I do till now is farming and I will never stop doing this business, and the funds I will be raising from Zidisha will go in the farming system.

The goods that I provide to people are crops because I know that everyone needs crops.

For this reason my crops are on demand everyday, and I make money everyday and every week through selling them. Every week I make 1500 ZMW. And when I make this money I make a budget for some money I use it for farming emplovement and some money for feeding my family.

I'm a farmer who normally grow different types of crops such as carots, cabbage, rape, Maize and chili. Now that my i have a challenge i want the funds to buy the water pump machine so that i will be planting these crops even in dry season.