Joyce sells homemade breakfast at Lodonga’s main street. “Anyoya”, the typical breakfast in Yumbe, consists on boiled maize and brown beans with fried onion.

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Yumbe is a rural region in northern Uganda along the border with South Sudan. It is a very poor area where the local Marian Brothers congregation works, promoting educational and agricultural projects. Some years ago,  they began a microcredit program with women in the area. Very improvised women are making progress, and with them their families, in diverse businesses that they have launched.