Place
Uganda · Southern Uganda
Kabale
A highland town in southern Uganda, where water engineer Kyokushaba Shine described watching her mother’s onion harvests fail for lack of water — and building solar irrigation so that other smallholders might count on a yield.
Illustrative place identifier: Lake Bunyonyi seen from nearby hills in Kabale District, southwestern Uganda (Wikimedia Commons / Sjoerdug). Used to identify the Kabale place card — NOT the Field Note subject, NOT her mother’s onion acres, not from The Guardian. · Credit: Sjoerdug / Wikimedia Commons · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Lake_Bunyonyi_in_Kabaale_District.jpg
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The Water Her Mother Could Not Count On
In Kabale, southern Uganda, water engineer Kyokushaba Shine, 31, builds solar pumps and drip irrigation for smallholders after watching her mother’s onion harvests fail for lack of water — a company started in February 2025 with neither staff nor capital that has, she says, installed 30 systems in just over a year.