2. Olinga and his brother live on a small farm with their family in north eastern Uganda.

3. The family grow all sorts of vegetables, such as sweet potatoes…

4. a root crop called cassava…

5. and many other things like bananas and aubergines.

6. But recently the weather has been hard to predict - making vegetable growing very difficult. Some of the effects of the changing climate are: - Late rains or no rains at all - Floods from heavy rain washing away good soil - Very high temperatures drying out the ground So, the family uses Send a Cow techniques which help combat the effects of climate change…

7. Their Bag Gardens make the most of rainwater and stop good soil from washing away.

8. Olinga adds compost to the garden to feed plants and help the soil hold valuable moisture.

9. Using manure from their drought resistant livestock is also good for the soil and helps it hold more moisture.

10. Their Keyhole Gardens make use of compost and the surface has a ‘mulch’ of straw to slow down water evapouration.

11. They grow plants in old containers to hold soil and stop water from draining away too easily.

12. Olinga helped to dig this well, which gives them underground water.

13. Making a hole in the base of their old plastic bottles gives plants a steady ‘drip’, using less water.

14. Olinga’s family have planted bushy plants such as Tithonia (Mexican Sunflower), on the edge of their plots to help stop flood waters from washing the soil away. They act as a barrier and the roots absorb rainwater.

15. By digging trenches and planting trees at the edge of their land, soil is stopped from being washed away by floodwater.

16. Keeping goats means that if they have a really bad harvest, they can sell kids to buy essentials and food.

17. Saving seeds like these ‘cow peas’ gives them more to plant when the rains are unpredictable, and they don’t have to buy any.

18. “I am confident now. I know I can’t stop climate change, but I can use Send a Cow training. So I am not scared - I am prepared.”

19. sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica