Put simply, hunger’s toll can be life-altering. When someone is sick, having to choose between food and treatment can lead to serious complications. For example, for food-insecure adults living with diabetes, the choice between food and controlling the disease can even lead to complications like kidney disease, eye disease and nerve damage.
Food insecurity can lead to Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity.
More than half the communities reportedly have at least one member living with high blood pressure and more than one-third have a member with diabetes. Children at risk of hunger are more likely to be in poor health and struggle in school.
In Katakwi, food shortage, child neglect (often as a result of separated couples, domestic violence, alcoholism and orphanage) and lack of education support were the highly ranked reasons by women. The men on the other hand highly ranked food shortage and lack of education support as the major reasons. Kids moving from one place to another in search for food and struggling to get enough to eat are more likely to have problems in school and other social situations.
It has been evidently shown that among the social economic challenges, food shortage ranks highly and is an underlying cause of child trafficking and poor health.
When our communities — especially children — have access to healthy, well-balanced diets, everyone benefits. That’s the kind of future Food Rights Alliance is trying to create, but we can’t do it with your help.
Nearly one out of three of us lives with food insecurity and malnutrition. But we see a future in which no one does.
For every dollar amount you donate, Food Rights Alliance advocates for initiative setups, local and global partnerships for mobilising attention and action on the immediate causes of child hunger and undernutrition.
Park authorities, tourism operators, and lodges: contract MCCA as your habitat restoration partner. Site assessments, invasive removal, and long-term monitoring, delivered alongside your team, not independently.
Foundations, NGOs, and institutional funders: support evidence-based restoration with documented, measurable outcomes and direct alignment to Uganda’s national conservation priorities and standards.
Early-career conservationists and students: gain hands-on fieldwork experience across invasive vegetation removal, long-term site monitoring, community beekeeping, and wildlife-safe crop cultivation programmes.