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It is 10am, 28-year-old Grace Nakato Nakibuuka, a mother of five from Kitanzige Village in Lwamata Sub County, Kiboga District joins several other youthful mothers, gathered at a model home belonging to Ms Jane Nabukenya, a 63-year-old farmer from Kyekumbya Village in Kyekumbya Parish.

The model home has a well-kept compound and is sandwiched between plantations of bananas, cassava, sweet potatoes, fruit trees and vegetable gardens.

While carrying her 9-month-old son, who looks too short and small for his age, and has curly brownish hair, Nakato settles on a seat in a well-constructed shade, within the compound of a model home, as she awaits nutrition lessons organized by Sasakawa Africa Association.

According to Nakato, she always feeds her son on porridge made out of cassava flour, saying she can’t afford milk sold by local vendors at Shs 500 per cup.

Besides, a friend allegedly assured her that both milk and cassava porridge contain the same food values since they are both whitish in colour.

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