Ebenezer meetings at PROUD Canteen

 

Ebenezer fellowship meeting at PROUD Canteen

The Ebenezer fellowship is the fellowship that is organized monthly at Proud Canteen. This fellowship is for the married (couples). Its mainly for teaching the couples how to build good and strong families. 

It has a lot of topics to teach to the couples for example how wives should treat their husbands and how husbands should treat their wives. It also teaches marrieds about how to work and making the savings for their families, looking after the children by teaching them good morals and sending them to school. It also touches the “love” affairs for the couple and teaches the spiritual aspects for example to pray while at home. 

After the fellowship members get the snacks and drinks from the Proud Canteen. The members say that they like the environment and the good spiritual pictures on the wall in the canteen room.

Text by Kiconco Mercy

International Women's Day 2019

Mary, Immaculate, Apophia, Josephine, Annet and Mercy

International Women’s Day is the day for women that comes on 8th February every year. The women from PROUD Uganda were happy enjoying from New London Image Hotel. They were: Kiconco Mercy, Twesigyemukama Josephine, Wednesday Immaculate, Asiimwe Apophia, Tumusiime Annet and Tindibasa Mary.

They felt happy to be called women because it’s a special day for them. Every woman gave thanks to the director for giving them an opportunity to go out for pleasure while enjoying their day so called International Women’s Day. Wednesday Immaculate said that “All days are for men but I’m happy this day is also mine.”

Christmas in the village

I went to church and I put on my best clothes

Hello, on Christmas I went to church and I put on my best clothes and everything made me happy –that is why I smiled.

Dividing meat. This is how people in Kabale mostly in the village start Xmas.

Here in Uganda some people in the village save money in small groups of 10-15 for the whole year and buy cows. On Christmas they slaughter cows and share the meat equally and take it to their families for enjoyment.

My Mummy, my niece and I, just feeling happy on Xmas day sitting in front of our house.

Our mummy was also in the group and she got five kilograms of meat. Everybody ate meat and we were happy with our mum, so Christmas was well spent.

by Annet Namara

Kabale University students opposing the change of national constitution (Togikwatako)

 Students with papers written on” Togikwatoko”

On 26/09/2017 the students of Kabale University where Kiki studies from were striking such that they don’t change the national constitution article 102 (b). This says that a person under the age of 35 years should not contest to be the president of Uganda. And the person above 75 years should not contest to be the president of Uganda. The parliament of Uganda wants to change the constitution -so that is why the students were striking. The news reporter Mr. Simani from Voice of Kigezi Kabale was present to record the news at Kabale University. The students were running around carrying the papers written on “Togikwatako” meaning that don’t touch the constitution to change it.

 Simani is a big man with his colleague recording News

By Kiki

How to make friends

Alive Timious

The following are the ways of how to make friends:

One can make friends through helping other people or having a spirit of team work.

Friends can be made through visiting them, juzzing with them and praying with them.

One can make friends through sharing information, telling stories, sharing eatable things etc.

Friends can be made through becoming trust worthy to them and helpful.

One can make friends through visiting different places most especially public places like churches, hotels or places where many people are most likely to be gathered.

One can make friends through spending leisure time e.g. clubbing, attending fellowships, swimming etc.

One can make friends through becoming social and used to people or not becoming selfish.

Promoting developmental establishments in an area can also become one way of making friends.

Written by Alive Timious

Timious making friendship with WOGE

The best trained team in Uganda

I've turned the bar into a workshop

Personnel of Kirigime guesthouse in Kabale are surely the best trained team in Uganda. How is that possible? Well it is because many workshops take place in Kirigime and by these occasions the club and bar are turned into a conference hall.

I am a member of many associations

We hear all those important messages

Members of the personnel of the guesthouse are purchasing T-shirts of the workshops and they hear all those important messages. The anti corruption flag is waving several times a year in Kirigime as former 'Kick corruption out of Kigezi' turned into 'Kick corruption out of Uganda'.

One day I even found a family member of mine attending the fight against corruption workshop!

The flag of 'Kick corruption out of Uganda' waving in Kirigime Guesthouse

The brand new car of Kick-U

At night many cars of important organizations come to sleep in Kirigime Guest house. They are nice cars, donated by important donors, but no one can beat UN. The UN cars are equipped to go in every corner of Uganda and to communicate directly with UN head quarters. So if you want to know where your tax payers money goes, come to take a look at the parking of the Guesthouse.

WOGE

Many cars come to sleep in Kirigime Guesthouse

The African stretcher

The stretcher in the boat

In Kabale when the people are sick especially in the villages they lay the mattress and mat in the stretcher.
They put the sick person to sleep in the stretcher; it has four arms where to pass the poles to support the person who is in the stretcher. The stretcher needs four people to carry it. The people put the poles of the stretcher on their shoulders. When they reach at the lake they put the stretcher in the boat. Reaching at harutindo they remove the sick person and put him/ her in the car and be taken to the hospital.

By Kiki

Kiki travelling on lake

Kiki travelling on lake Bunyonyi

Kiki comes from Bunyonyi, one of the best places for tourism. She crosses the lake as she goes and leaves her home by boat.

She likes putting on life jackets to protect her while travelling on the lake. She cross the lake and pass through islands like Burumba Island. She says that it is better to travel on the lake while in the boat as it is big which makes it capable of stopping water from entering inside especially when the wind is blowing. She also said that it is risky to travel on the lake using canoes because when wind comes it makes the canoe falling down and people drawn and die from there.

By Kiki

Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Good Friday in Kabale (picture Joventah Niwandanda)

Good Friday

On Good Friday 14th April 2017, different religions, that is Catholics and Protestants, organized together and moved around the town. They were carrying their crosses and were singing the songs about the death of Jesus Christ. One Reverend father acted like Jesus and they were beating him using simple sticks but not beating him seriously just demonstrating how they mistreated Jesus Christ. The Reverend who was acting like Jesus was made to carry a big cross and a man helped him to show how Simon helped Jesus to carry the cross.

 

Good Friday

Easter Sunday

During Easter Sunday people in the village were celebrating and taking local beer. They used calabashes (orushare) to drink their local beer called Omuramba in local language. This local beer is made from sorghum and many people in the villages from Kabale district like it very much.

Good Friday

By Joventah, Patricia and Kiki

Who picks the children from school?

Children are taken from school by relatives or boda boda man. Here are some pictures.

His grand mother helps Ignatious

Ignatious is picked by his grand mother. Grand mother is helping him to put his clothes well.
       

Pritty resembles her grand mother

Pritty is also picked by her grand mother. Pritty resembles her grand mother. They have to climb a very steep hill to go home.

So the grand mothers go by foot with their grand children.

Praise is proud to travel by bike

Prize makes use of a transport system that is common in Kabale: a bike taxi. She is proud when she climbs the bike!
 

The boda boda man and the mother of Arinda came to pick Arinda

Arinda is picked by her father, who comes with his moto when he is not to busy with his timber bussiness. If not the parents hire a boda boda.
       

Elizabeth is happy to sit on the moto of her father Willy

Elizabeth likes to sit at the moto of her father. Willy is a welder. He produced metal doors and windows for PROUD Village.

     

The younger sister of Sarah (left) comes to pick Sarah (right) together with her schoolmates from Child Africa

The mother of Sarah sells shoes at Kabale market. So, it is the younger sister of Sarah who comes to pick Sarah at PROUD Village. Usually she is accompanied by her schoolmates from Child Africa. They are a colorfull group!

Karimunda's E.J. graduation

He was graduating on 31/03/2017 at Tourism Hotel and Training Institute in Kabale town. Many people were happy to see an old man graduating at his old age. People from the village crossed the lake to come to witness the graduation ceremony. Kiki, his daughter, was very happy also to see that her father has graduated and she gave him a gift to put on his neck with the word "congratulations"...

Kiki's father putting on a graduation gown

By Kiki

Selling ladies' clothes

I am called Tumusiime Eunice working at Mwanjari market as a business woman dealing with selling ladies’ clothes.

Manjari market, every Monday and Friday

I sell nice skirts and brouses at a relatively good price. In my business I normally get customers on Friday but on Monday I don’t get many customers. 

Eunice's fitting room

Most of the girls from Kabale University come to me to buy office wear skirts because they always tell me that skirts that I have are good and are fittings to tie their buttocks.

University girl Kiki is one of the customers of Eunice

Written by Tumusiime Eunice

How the name Mercy changed to Marcey

This is Mercy...

She was called Mercy by her parents and later she joined primary school at Kisiizi Primary School where the teachers taught her to write her name as Marcey. So she grew up knowing to write her name as Marcey. 

When recently she was processing a passport they found that the name which was on her national identity card -Mercy- was not the same as that on her academic documents -Marcey. From there the Ministry of Internal Affairs -where they process the passports- sent her to National Identity Registration Agency (NIRA ) -where they process the national identity cards- for the correction of her name. At NIRA they sent her to the court to make an affidavit, it means she went to swear before the magistrate that she renounces the name Mercy and that she will be called Marcey forever.

...and this is Marcey

So Mercy became the owner of a national identity card and a passport where her names are spelled as Marcey.

New Year 2017

At the beginning of the new year 2017 all people were happy where by they made fire along the roads and fireworks at Makanga Hill. Many people were making noise all around the town and in the villages. People were also drumming at churches and praising God.

Written by Kiki

How people of Kabale enjoy Christmas

Most people in Kabale contribute money from January to December. They make groups such that they can raise huge amounts of money.

They buy bulls which they normally slaughter on 24th of December. Men slaughter while their wives are preparing matooke, rice and Irish potatoes to eat with the meat.

After eating from the place they are slaughtering from they share meat equally to take it home.

Written by Kiki

How Ugandan children go to school

In Uganda most schools open at 8:00 am and close at 5:00 pm from Monday to Friday. Different children come from different families with different backgrounds and this is a great factor on how these children go to their respective schools in the morning and back to their homes in the evening.

Children from well off families are dropped and picked by their parents in their own transport means such as vehicles, motorcycles etc.

Children from middel income families are dropped and picked by boda boda or an affordable fee can be paid to the school in order for these children to be dropped and picked by the school van/vehicle but this depends on the parents' will and acceptability.

There are also children from low income families where their daily income cannot afford to cater for transportation charges. This situation therefore forces children to walk (foot) to and from school and for the case of young children, their parents are forced to accompany their children in the morning and come to collect them in the evening.

So no matter what, all children come to school in the morning and go home in the evening.

Written by Annet Namara

Money-pots

Ignatious explaining me about the money pots

Ahabwe Ignatious decided to make clay materials after failing to get a job as a journalist. I come from Kamwengye district working in Kabale district he explains. I sell these money-pots a bit cheap (at 3000 shillings) so that people continue to buy them as they have to break them.

I thought money-pots were a traditional product, but now I find that everyone who sees them in my room asks what they are about. They are to save money. To take the money out you have to first break them.

Prepared by Pele