Hunger also is common in this area of Uganda. The average annual income in the Bukedi sub-region—in which Tororo is the largest town—is $455 per year. Bukedi is the poorest sub-region in all of Uganda. We are currently working with COFIA and other organizations to develop a demonstration farm that will train citizens to farm more sustainably and efficiently for their own families. Citizens will also learn how to raise crops for market. Here, Cissy scans the landscape where she and her mother grow maize and other crops. She told the COFIA team that she believes sunshine is the cause of hunger because if the sun wouldn't shine, their crops wouldn't die. "If mom's crops had water all year, there would be no hunger," she says.

The children in these communities frequently are responsible for tending the family farm plot. This is Mary, 12 years old.. She and her mother grow sorghum and corn on land that is owned by the elderly woman her mother works for. When she and her family run out of food from their farmplot, they wander the countryside looking for fruit and ground nuts to eat.

Patience, 8 years old, helps her family grow and harvest maize, sorghum, sweet potatoes and pumpkins. Her primary job for the family is to gather firewood. Her father is ill and makes money for the family by selling papaya and jackfruit he picks in the surrounding countryside.