Smart Change International helps landless and hungry families in Northern Uganda (Arua & Koboko) grow their own food and feed themselves indefinitely. 

For a landless family in need of food, Smart Change International makes a one time investment for a one-year lease of a plot of agricultural land, seeds, and simple agricultural tools. From the harvest, families feed themselves but also sell some surplus on the village market to obtain the funds for the land lease and seeds for subsequent years. This way, the solution becomes self sustaining and permanent.

Smart Change International was founded in 2002 by the late Alice Layiki-Dehne. It all started when some of her mother's neighbours in Arua, Uganda invaded her house to steal food because they were hungry. Alice responded by helping those neighbours grow their own food.