The livelihood of the communities in the region depends on agriculture and pastrolists. The main agricultural activity is miraa farming, which determines peoples livelihood especially in Maua town, this business thrives well at night opening avenues for other businesses to operate long hours. The negative effect of this business is that young children especially boys have a lot of money from miraa, facilitating them to buy sex even from older women, leading to high increase of HIV/AIDS prevalence, there is also a high school dropout rate which results to early marriages and prostitution