Empower Children and Women in the slums of Kampala

While the pandemic affected nations and segments of society around the world, the urban poor living in slums (a total of 1.58 million people to 2.1 million people) were particularly hard hit, with over 90 percent of the COVID-19 cases recorded in cities.

The large majority of the slum households are food insecure and suffer from low dietary quality. Rates of undernourishment are considerably suggesting that slum dwellers deserve more explicit attention in initiatives to improve nutrition. Household-level indicators are significantly correlated with individual-level indicators for women and children. In urban Kampala slums, only one household in five is food-secure, and nearly half of all households are categorized as “food-insecure with both adult and child hunger.” evidence indicates that parents often forego food in order to prioritize their children.

With the escalating prices of commodity prices such as cooking oil, sugar, rice and maize flour, many households in the slum communities often live without food as most of them live on hand to mouth.

In Makerere kivulu, one of Kampala’s largest slums, about 20 % of households go a whole day and night without food.

“Now that children are back home for holidays, I do not have what to feed them, I make maize porridge in the morning that we all feed on during the day”. Says Rose (Not real name).

Her story is just a tip of the iceberg of what most households go through on a daily basis, Children and women are most affected.

Please support our campaign to feed the hungry living in the slum communities in Kampala.