Host Organization: CARE
First Year Placement
Fort Portal, Uganda
Kaila helped to advance the scale-up of CARE’s Farmer Field and Business Schools (FFBS), a proven model which enhances nutrition, livelihoods, women’s roles among small-scale farmers by boosting production, resilience, climate adaptation, and diet diversification.
She supported integration of FFBS into academic and training centers, influencing curricula design, advancing farmer certification, helping vulnerable populations, developing the Research and Learning agenda, while advocating for funding and government adoption.
Kaila supported documentation of the impact of CARE’s Fill the Nutrition Gap project in Kyaka II Refugee Settlement in Uganda. This project seeks to improve access and consumption of nutritious foods to reduce malnutrition and anemia.
Refugee women farmers and their families learned how to make briquettes, cultivate kitchen gardens, run village savings groups, and rear small livestock. Successes included reduced child malnutrition and malaria, and use of savings to buy more livestock. Harvest loss and livestock deaths, are under investigation.