A woman smallholder farmer prunes her coffee trees on her coffee farm in Kasese District, Uganda, East Africa.
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Kasese District, Western Uganda, East AfricaMore information:
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Sylvia Katehero (60), shown here pruning coffee trees on her farm, is a participant in LWR’s REAL (Rural Economies and Agricultural Livelihoods) project in Kasese, Uganda. Sylvia and her husband live with and care for five grandchildren, all aged two to five years old. Before the project began, she was not able to adequately care for her grandchildren and many of them were malnourished and they often fell sick. There were times that the children were so sick she feared for their lives. Because she lives so far from a health facility, and the public ones nearby are not adequately stocked with supplies, she found herself walking long hours to find private facilities where she could afford to treat her grandchildren in. Sylvia did not own her own land before the project, which meant she had to rent the land she did farm on and pay back much of her harvest to the landlord. “The children would look bad, they looked malnourished, and they even cried at night because they didn’t get anything to eat, ” she recalls. Today Sylvia makes a steady income farming coffee, so much so that she now owns two plots of land and has constructed a new house for her family. She credits the trainings she received on farming for her good quality coffee crop that she is able to sell at a good price twice a year. The trainings on making a work plan, and applying organic compost and pesticide in her gardens have also increased the yields of other crops she farms to feed her family such as beans, greens and bananas, so much so that she now has excess to sell. “Today is at least better, because the children are able to eat and get their fill. .. Our diet has changed us in a way that we no longer fall sick all time like before, ” she says. Sylvia is also now able to afford hired hands to do much of the work on her farm. In the next three years she hopes to get to a point to where she doesn’t have to do any of the work herself anymore.