The district chairperson
Hon. Richard Rwabuhinga while appearing on ToroDev’s supported ‘Orukurato’ program that is aired live every
Saturday 8:00pm-10:00pm on Hits Fm said together with his council, he has embarked
on looking for donors to support the merger funds in the district to support
different sectors in the district aimed at improving service delivery to the
people of Kabarole district.
Hon. Rwabuhinga on 27th August,2016
while on Hits Fm acknowledged that through his effort, Save the children has
accepted to start a project titled ‘Youth
in action’ that will focus more on school dropout especially children
between the ages of 12 and 17 years. These children will be trained in
vocational skills and after the training they will be supported with start- up
capital to help them put the skills into practice through which they will earn
a living. The beneficiaries of the
program will be got from 6 sub counties of Kabarole and training facilitators
have already been secured.
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| Hon. Richard Rwabuhinga, District chairperson Kabarole |
During the 2
hours discussion Hon Rwabuhinga further said that the district with support
from METs a new health organization in the district has received solar panels
& computers to help the health centers concentrate on case surveillance.
The 19 computers & solar panels will benefit Kicwamba, Kabende, Nyabuswa
& Kisomoro health centers and also Fort portal regional referral hospital.
He said the
district is in talks with the same organization for a Nutrition project aimed
at reducing the level of malnutrition in children that affects growth and
performance of children in our communities. The project is aimed at supporting
100 schools including St. Peters and Paul primary school, Ngombe Primary
school, Kinyamasika Primary School, etc. This will help to improve the
standards of the people in the region, and it will help to put in place school gardening
in schools for children & care givers to get diet in their meals.
The district
chairperson further gave the plans the district is working on in these 100 days
of office for example; extension of water sources to Kiko town council in parts
of Kanyambeho, Muhonde, etc and the engineers are now surveying where the pipes
will pass & building town council offices, the two projects will cost 2.4
billion shillings. UNICEF has also promised to fund water projects in
Kanyanswiga & Kasenda sub counties, we are going to construct
Kitarasa-Kiburara bridge, electricity poles are already in areas of Kitarasa,
Karago & Karambi, we hope once we extend electricity there, people will set
up income generating businesses to help them improve their livelihoods, said Hon.
Rwabuhinga Richard, the district chairperson Kabarole.
Listeners were
given chance to participate in the live program through call-ins & Sms; About
50 people called in and others sent Sms ‘’The
chairperson has not included Rubona Sub county in the plans for water extension
and yet we are lacking safe & clean water, let him think about us also’’,
said Margret Timbigamba a caller from Rubona, Kabarole district, ‘’Thank
you ToroDev for the programs where leaders are giving accountability regularly,
this will improve efficiency & service delivery in our communities’’,
said Musa Alinaitwe a caller from Kyegegwa district, ‘’our roads have improved due to the programs on that radio station,
for example in Harugongo we hard shoddy work and when we appeared on that radio
things changed for the better, thank you management and ToroDev for the support’’,
said Apollo from Harugongo in Kabarole district through an Sms.
We are grateful
to all our partners SIDA, NED, SPIDER, CIPESA,
ICT4DEM and HITS FM for the financial & technical support.
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