Kampala — IF famine struck in the country, lives of residents in nine villages of Bukasa parish, Wakiso would not change.

The residents, most of them women, have set up communal gardens to enable them fight poverty and hunger. With the assistance of Hunger Project Uganda (HPU) which provides loans and seedlings the residents boast of between three to six acres of gardens.

HPU identifies the land on which the residents set up their communal gardens. Recently, Dr. Fitigu Tadesse, the Hunger Project's regional director for Africa visited the gardens and was happy to see the healthy maize, vegetables and yams grown by the women.

Tadesse advised the women to set up their individual gardens in their homes and also learn how to save.

He noted the need to grow a variety of crops for nutritional purposes. HPU operates in eight African countries.