Beckie our daily customer for PROUD Canteen

 

Beckie with her mother taking soda in PROUD Canteen

Beckie is a little girl who is our daily customer at Proud Canteen. She is eleven years old and she studies at Bishop Asili Memorial Nursery and Primary school in Primary Five.

She came to the canteen her first time with her mother Byamugisha Eve. After she continued to come alone.

Beckie says that she likes mandazi from Proud Canteen more than any other mandazi she has ever eaten; she adds that they put good flavors and they are very sweet.

Beckie promised Manager Kiconco Mercy that she will celebrate her twelfth birthday in the Proud Canteen.

Text written by Kiconco Mercy

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

Lydia Baroles birthday

 

Lydia Barole with bishop Onesmus ready to cut the cake

Lydia Barole is one of the oldest ladies from Kabale. She is well known by many people in Kabale and outside Kabale for preaching the gospel for 50 years. She made many followers and she later opened gathering place at her home in Bushuro-Kabale where people gather for praying. She celebrated her 90 years old on 16/6/2024. The occasion was honored by the Bishop of North Kigezi Rt.Rev. Onesmus Asiimwe who was one of the people Lydia moved with in preaching the gospel when he was still a youth. 

Barole ordered her birthday cake from Proud Canteen which was in form of a bible as she loved the bible and loved Jesus. Kiconco Mercy the manager from Proud Uganda took the cake to the occasion and she helped in cutting and serving the cake to people who attended the function. The function was very colorful and the old lady Lydia thanked the manager for bringing her the good quality cake and she wished God’s blessings to the project.

Text by Kiconco Mercy

First graduation party at PROUD Canteen

Judith and her parents celebrating the graduation in a traditional way

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The first graduation party took place at Proud Canteen on 24/11/2023.The first graduate to celebrate her graduation ceremony was called Tumwebaze Judith who was the student of Uganda Collage of Commerce (UCC) in Kabale. Judith had invited her parents and friends to attend the party. She got her Diploma in accounting and finance management and she was very glad.

The party was organized well by the personnel from Proud Canteen and the student workers. Food and drinks were well organized and prepared well. There was also good music in the background with congratulation songs. It was amazing to welcome the first graduation party at Proud Canteen.

Written by Kiconco Mercy

Tijdelijk klasje voor kleuters (2021)

Babies en kleuters op het project terrein

Sinds maart 2020 zijn de scholen in Oeganda -bij wijze van corona maatregel- gesloten. (1) Oeganda vestigt daarmee, volgens de internationale pers, een wereldrecord. 

In de praktijk zien we echter een gemengd beeld dat in de media weinig wordt beschreven. Kinderen van begoede families in de grote steden volgen in kleine groepjes onderwijs onder de radar en hun ouders hebben daar veel geld voor over.

Oei, bijsturing is nodig.

In het PROUD-project hebben we creatieve oplosssingen bedacht om het grootste deel van de tijd toch open te zijn.

Daarnaast is er de regel dat moeders-werknemers hun babies mogen meebrengen tot de leeftijd van één jaar. Zo gaat de kans op borstvoeding niet verloren.

De papier manie van Oeganda begint in de kleuterschool

Die regeling vullen we in 2021 aan met een tijdelijk klasje voor kleuters van het personeel. De moeders begeleiden de kleuters volgens een beurtrol en worden aangevuld met een leerlinge secundair onderwijs die zelf niet naar school kan.

De bedoeling is vooral de kinderen in contact te brengen met leeftijdsgenootjes en hen te gewennen aan sociale omgang binnen een gestructureerde omgeving. Het dagstramien is er al: het welkomstritueel in de ochtend, de porridge om 10 uur, het gezonde middagmaal en het vier uurtje.

Van groot naar klein. Ik ben klaar.

De lestijden voor kinderen met een beperking zijn niet te lang omdat hun aandacht beperkt is en dat past ook voor kleuters. Voor de kleuters wordt er nog een slaapmoment ingelast.

Afro groepje

We moeten de activiteiten alleen maar aanpassen aan de leeftijd. Een dansje doen, leren eten met een lepel, bouwen met blokken, krabbelen en lijntjes trekken in een schriftje, buiten spelen, naar de dieren gaan kijken, tijdig op het potje gaan enz. Je ziet enkele foto’s die een impressie geven van hoe het er aan toe gaat. De kinderen wennen aan evolueren in een sociale omgeving. Nu maar hopen dat ze vlug naar 'de echte school' kunnen.

De middagrust

(1) Uiteindelijk zullen de Oegandese scholen 22 maanden gesloten blijven en heropenen in januari 2022.

De beste informatie over de scholen-sluiting in Oeganda krijg je in artikelen die een gemengd beeld geven: onder de radar onderwijs voor de meest gepriviligieerden en een catastrofe voor veel andere kinderen en jongeren. Het schoolgeld dat voor veel ouders reeds onbetaalbaar was vóór de Covid crisis wordt voor hen na de heropening nog minder haalbaar.

Antwerpse in Oeganda: "Bij ons gaan de scholen vandaag pas na 2 jaar weer open, gevolgen van sluiting zijn enorm" | VRT NWS: nieuws

Ugandan children back to school after almost 2 years of Covid closure > Find Me Now Social (zoek-me.nu)

UNICEF is er helaas niet in geslaagd om het onderwijs in Oeganda op een redelijke termijn terug open te krijgen.

UNICEF België| Heropening scholen Oeganda

Mission 11 Workshop with local committee members: welcome to PROUD Village

PROUD UG invited all local committee members to visit the project and get informed. The seven female members of the committee responded to the invitation, the three male members were absent.

Project staff explained the time table of our children and all learning activities they become involved in. As local committee members knew some of the children but did not know very well what they were studying, many times they were surprised. The reactions were very positive what made us think that women understand better about project matters, daily activities and vulnerable children than men. 

Anyway, additionally visitors got the opportunity to visit all project infrastructures and asked questions about all project activities. We ended up with taking some snacks and drinks and making an original group picture!

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

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

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

Trump

Trump

He is really bad

We are not happy. He is really bad. He has 5 children in 3 woman.

After Obama

If you have voted Clinton you would have given Obama the third term. After Obama at least somebody else would come, but not Trump. I wanted change, but not Trump. You're not supporting Clinton because she is a woman.

Is that man going to have jobs for those people in America? All of them?

Bribes

Do they give bribes for votes in your country? No? That is only in Uganda. They give you 2000 for your vote.

I fear

He said he is going to chase the black people of America. Every time he was quarreling.

He is ever abusing. He is going to abuse on his first day. Now I fear also those people may come and kill us.

By unknown woman in Kabale town the morning after Trump was elected.

Jacky's salon

Kiki and Jacky

Jacky's salon is located at Kekubo cell Southern division Kabale town.
Jacky's salons deals in all styles of hair plaiting like twisting, pencil, weave plaiting and making retouch to make hair soft and straight.

Written by Kiki

Graduation at Kabale University

Kiki on graduation day

Hello I am Kiki. I study at Kabale University. On 4th of November 2016 Kabale University was celebrating the 10th graduation at Kikungiri hill.

The graduates were very smart whereby they put on graduation gowns.

Many people came to witness the graduation especially the parents and relatives of the graduates.

The president of Uganda His Excellence Yoweri Kaguta Museveni also came to witness the function. Security officers did not allow Pele to picture the president. So you will be satisfied with a picture of Kiki who expects to graduate in 2018!

Daphine's Primary Leaving

Daphine

I am Niwagaba Daphine. I study at Kabale Primary School. I am in P7 but I am completing my primary education on 3rd of November 2016. Now I am hoping to join senior one next year 2017.

My friends and all well wishers please wish me success in my Primary Leaving Examinations.

Written by Daphine

In the mean time Daphine finished her exams, but she is still waiting for the final result. Kiki wishes if Daphine can get the first grade.