His mother Grace is the main breadwinner for nine children in her extended family. They live in a large neatly swept compound of small grass-thatched huts. Herbert loves playing football with a ball made from old plastic bags filled with rubbish and bound with banana fibre. Nearby Grace has a field where she grows food. The older children in the family help to cut the napier or 'elephant' grass grown for Ida, the family bull Katende and new calf, Samuel.
Grace does most of the work, as it needs to be done properly.
She employs a method called 'zero-grazing' which means Ida stays in her large pen. Christian Aid supports local organisations in their work with poor communities in Uganda. Agricultural workers in the Soroti Diocese Development Office, trained Grace to care for her cattle.