Elderly Women Find a Living In Mushroom Growing

Three years ago, aging Nighty Opoka a resident of Cam- Cam village in Kitgum depended on relief food, to feed over 20 orphans under her care.
Opoka says because of the congestion in the Internally Displaced People's camps she couldn't adequately provide food for the orphans but only relied on the food ration provided by relief agencies.
Opoka says her hopes of educating and feeding the orphans were shattered when the relief food was withdrawn.
She says that she and other women then decided to join hand in 2007 and started a mushroom farming project. Opoka says that says the group identified by the name