Source: IRIN Carmela Acen fled her home in northern Uganda when the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) began its insurgency campaign in 1986. She told IRIN/PlusNews about her life in Kireka, a high-density township in the capital, Kampala.
When you cook, you create garbage. Now an association in Nyakabanda has found a way to use garbage for cooking. "At first, it was a bit hard to convince people to pay us for collecting their garbage, but as soon as they saw that it kept the neighborhood clean, they easily agreed."