The vegetable project could be carried out thanks to the Thom Foundation in the Netherlands that helped complete fundraising for the chicken/goats/vegetable project online on the 1 % club.

In Kisozi, an incredible number of children have lost their parents to Aids. Aids has hit hard in this area. Children are often supported by family members or neighbours when they have lost their parents. Poverty and large families make that many children in Kisozi and surroundings eat only one meal a day. Their health may be poor, and children who only eat one meal a day, cannot perform well at school.

Hope Alive Uganda was able to construct vegetable gardens for more than 50 children thanks to the Thom Foundation. Orphans and their guardians or relatives were given seeds for cabbage, onions, soya beans, carrots, peppers, tomatoes etc. and together with the orphans and their guardians or relatives the seeds were planted in August 2010. The purpose of this project was to help improve health of the children, by giving them an opportunity to eat healthier food (different types of vegetables) rather than only one meal of posho every day and by giving the guardians and relatives a chance to earn some income through selling crops, which helps them pay schoolfees and materials for the children.

Today, Hope Alive Uganda still regularly checks the conditions of the vegetable gardens and sees that a number of children have been able to improve their circumstances: for example, crops were sold and in return new seeds were bought, such as maize seeds. Alice Mukyala is one of the orphans who benefitted from this project.