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News Archives 2020
December 2020
Making face masks helps children stay safe in school
On 15th October, schools throughout Uganda re-opened with standard procedures in place for the Covid pandemic. However, the community in Rukiga faced added challenges of providing face masks to the children who could not afford to buy them due to their families struggling more than ever to make ends meet. The Rukiga Youth team worked hard in engaging the local government leaders who with limited resources managed to distribute three masks per household. This was not enough as at least six masks and more were needed for each household. This meant that the children were going to school without face coverings.
CLICKRukiga, through fund raising managed to send funds to the Rukiga Youth project to enable them to buy materials for making face masks. Hundreds of masks were made and distributed with the charity logo, hand printed by the youth and volunteers. A huge thank you to the local community for supporting us, supporting Rukiga.
Hand printing the CLICK Rukiga logo
Children at Kamwezi Primary School wearing the face masks.
Children at Kamwezi Primary School wearing the face masks.
Hand printing the CLICK Rukiga logo
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October 2020
News from Rukiga - Highlighting the impact of our intervention on our beneficiaries
With the enforced lockdown in place in Uganda, our friends in Rukiga were struggling. When states have limited budgets and capacity to support their locked down population, lockdowns can result in widespread starvation, failing health and unrest. Pastor Hilary in Rukiga reported that all schools and places of worship were closed and that there had been police and the army outside the villages to stop the movement of people. With village markets closed and no access granted to nearby towns with possible markets, there was an ensuing of food shortages, failing health services and falling incomes. The schools were chosen to be quarantine centres if needed and with limited media access, anxiety made the locals fearful.
Given the challenges of extending lockdown measures, the government had begun to gradually loosen containment measures, while imposing the mandatory wearing of masks and the observance of physical distancing measures.
After the wearing of masks were made mandatory and demand high, Hilary resorted to making masks at home with the help of his immediate family. A local tailoring instructor was called upon for help who thanks to Hilary stayed with them. Distribution of masks became possible with special permission from the forces on the ground. With partial easing of the lockdown the soldiers started sending the locals to Hilary for yet more masks! Over seven hundred masks were distributed thanks to CLICKRukiga.
With health services and food difficult to access CLICKRukiga came to the rescue yet again. With an initiative put in place, funds were sent to Uganda where Christian families were identified who were most vulnerable. Over hundred families benefited. May God bless the community in Ickenham who continue to support us ensuring help is ongoing to our friends in Rukiga, Uganda.
Pandemic relief
Helping creates change that lasts a lifetime for children and their families in Rukiga, Uganda
Pandemic relief
Pandemic relief
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May 2020
CLICKRukiga Youth Project tailors sewing face masks for the local community
With patterns and guidance from Sarah and Derek our team members, the folks in Rukiga have started making cloth face masks for the local community. From the beginning of May, everyone moving out of their homes are required to wear face masks to halt the spread of coronovirus. Cloth masks are a fairly inexpensive and useful tool against contagion. Over seventy face masks have already been supplied by Turyakira Hilary, with the help of the youth project initiative involving locals to help their community, which CLICKRukiga support. More masks are continuing to be made for distribution in the community.
Well done Hilary and the team in Rukiga.
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February 2020
CLICKRukiga Help to Construct New Library
Kigezi Women in Development KWID (formerly Kabale Women in Development) was established to reach out to vulnerable people in the former Kabale district which was split to create two more districts; Rubanda and Rukiga.
KWID touches peoples lives through three arms; advocacy, networking and capacity of vulnerable persons, KWID started giving weekly life skills sessions to orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC). KWID also established a community library in 2008 to reach out to people with information.
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Through the arm of networking KWID partnered with CLICKRukiga that supported us to construct a temporary structure for the community library and temporary shelter where OVC life skills trainings and other KWID meetings were held. Due to roadworks, the space for the shelter kept shrinking and the semi-permanent structure housing the library was in a bad shape.
In 2015 CLICKRukiga supported KWID to purchase land and in 2017 the CLICKRukiga team raised funds to construct a structure to accommodate KWID operations including OVC life skills sessions and dialogue meetings. With this support, KWID has been able to construct a permanent structure and a pit latrine which has enabled there to be a shift of operations from a dilapidated building to a habitable space.
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"We appreciate the boundless support CLICKRukiga has accorded to KWID to enable the organisation to reach out to vulnerable persons and put smiles on their faces." - KWID
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