Vendors at Highlands Highway not lazy

I WRITE in response to the letter by Gobontas ‘601’ on Feb 22.
It was impolite to address the people living along the Highlands Highway vending without understanding them.
The irony is that there’s urgency or desperation for the need of money as if though it was not as assumed.
Those people are not lazy but are trying to supplement their income.
Basic services such as school fees are soaring high into thousands of kinas (not to mention the day-to-day costs of living).
As you have noticed, they are having sleepless nights because they are racing against time as the academic year is nearing.
You would undarstand if you visit the village regularly.
Things have changed.
No small-scale coffee growers have never earned over K500 per hectare per harvest season.
Vegetable business mostly end up in disaster as farmers contend with high transportation costs and even worse, there are no storage facilities in urban markets to keep the vegetables cool and fresh.
Only a mad person will engage in high risk businesses that have no insurance.

Konstantinovich Tsiolkolvsky,
Hozafu Farmer