Rakai-Kooki, Uganda: Snippets

Rakai-Kooki, Uganda

4 January 2004

Snippets

Some achievements of Rakai-Kooki ADP since October 2002:

Community monitors check on children's welfare.

Built a 15,000-litre water tank and painted the library at Kakoma Boys’ Secondary School.
Painted classrooms and replaced broken windows at Lumbugu Primary School.
Assisted 241 secondary and tertiary students with tuition fees. One of the students has been accepted at Kyambogo University for a Bachelor of Science (Technology) degree.
Provided 1600 children with school uniforms.
Provided exercise books to more than 2000 children.
Supplied 100 female goats, 445kg of maize and 1290kg of beans to needy families and farmers.
Assisted 275 children with various medical problems to receive medication and treatment from qualified medical personnel.
Trained 50 ‘community-based monitors’ in children’s rights and child protection policies. This training empowered the monitors to handle cases of child abuse and other child-related issues in community. The monitors received bicycles, to help them travel around the villages, checking on children’s welfare.
Organised meetings for 650 parents and guardians. Topics included children’s education and the importance that correct nutrition plays in their ability to learn, child rights and child protection.
Organised two children’s parties, attended by more than 1220 children, guardians and community leaders. Children received gifts of water cans, basins and soap. Children who had excelled in their studies received extra gifts as a way of encouragement.
Arranged training by District medical staff for 170 malaria monitors. The monitors are responsible for distributing anti-malarial drugs in their villages.
Distributed 200 insecticide-treated mosquito nets to families.
Built two four-room houses for two orphaned families.
Trained 50 farmers in aspects of maize, bean, poultry and livestock farming.

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