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Tiadineng and daughter Rini, age 8.
Photo: Ronda Hughes/CWS
Tiadineng sells fish each day by bicycle.
Photo: Ronda Hughes/CWS |
Recovery in Indonesia - Multiplying the fishes
Tiadineng, 25, and Mustafa, 45, have three children--and they are newlyweds. Mustafa lost his first wife in the December 2004 tsunami-- which took a disproportionate number of women and children. (Tiadineng lost her husband some time before that.) Now they are a new team: He fishes each day, and she peddles the wares. For three years Tiadineng has been buying fish each day from the fishermen as they come in. She packs the fish, shrimp, and crabs with ice and salt, and then goes by bicycle selling them throughout the nearby villages.
Told that she sounds like quite a business woman, she replies, “It’s not enough. I can just buy food for the day, and have a bit for the children’s school fees,”-- about $2 per month for the three.
“It’s nice to be having a house again,” she says with a smile. She and her neighbors in the village of Meue lost their homes and livestock in the tsunami. Church World Service is helping with the reconstruction of homes and livelihoods. Mustafa’s boat and net and those of other fishermen in the village --15 boats in all -- have been provided by CWS.