Mbale is a region of around 1 million people. Around 96,000 live in Mbale town, the rest in rural villages.
Most people in the villages are subsistence farmers, growing their own food, including maize, beans, bananas, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, matooke, millet, onions and carrots. Some are able to grow crops to sell, including coffee. Our healthworkers, motorbike ambulance drivers and self help group members live in these villages.
Mbale Coalition Against Poverty is in Mbale town, and so is the Hospital. The workshop and wildlife education centre are not far away. The NGOs, schools and churches we partner with are spread all across the region – some are in town, some of them are very remote!