With continuous
financial support from our donors National Endowment for Democracy ( NED) and
SIDA, ToroDev has continuously reached a
number of women and youths in hard to each villages to capture their
issues and present them to the duty
bearers to take action and to inform
them to plan and make decisions
basing on the facts gathered from a big number of women and youths during
these debates .
In Bukuku sub county 35 women, 13
youths and 2 duty bearers (Youth Councilor) were reached and responded to issues
regarding to health, education, water, road and economic development sectors,
their voices were recorded by talkshow moderator Mr. Mukonyezi Wilfred and their
voices were amplified live on 28th May 2017 on Jubilee Fm during listener’s
forum program which is sponsored by ToroDev that starts from 8:00Pm- 10:00 Pm
every Sunday.
The participant’s selection was
mainly 70% women, 20% youth and 10% others including duty bearers and men. The
following issues were raised and ToroDev Team will take another step of sharing
a copy of these issues to different duty bearers in the first week of June.
“In Kiguma
health center II, nurses are available but drugs are inadequate which is a challenge
to people without money who are referred to private clinics to get the drugs in
this case we request health management committee members to work hand in hand
with RDC, duty bearers and DHO in Kabarole
to look into this issue seriously”. Said Ruhuna Grace from
Kyaruhamira,Kiguma parish Bukuku sub county Kabarole district.
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| Women attending a Rural radio magazine/debate in Kiguma |
Grace added
another challenge is impassable roads that have caused accidents each day
especially the road from Butebe to Kiguma and Butebe to Nyakahungu, Butebe to
Mugusu the roads are impassable especially during rainy seasons they develop a
lot of potholes which is challenge to the community especially those that deal
in agriculture activity it lowers the price of the products.
“We have failed
to benefit from operation wealth creation because we don’t know how it does its
work since it was changed we need to be sensitized about this program and be
educated on how it operates”. Said Kajumba Florence
“Youth
livelihood programs is not at its best in Kiguma parish , because we have
failed to fully benefit in the program we have formed groups but they have
failed to consider our groups at sub county levels , we request the sub county
leaders to give us the procedure of getting these funds”. Said Monday Joseph from Kiguma.
“We have limited
school facilities in Kiguma such as laboratory equipments and text books for classes
in Bukuku secondary school, we request Kabarole district education department
to work with district duty bearers to lobby and solve these problem which are
affecting our schools”. Said Kisembo John
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| Mr. Mukonyezi the moderator of Listeners forum program on Jubillee radio recording citizens voices |
“We don’t have
clean water in kiguma the tap they put in place are not working and all villages
in kiguma parish are suffering with the problem of water such as Kabunyansaigi,
Nyakahungu, Nyaruhamira Kihunge, women wake up when it’s still dark to look for
water . We call upon the duty bearers to work on shallow wells, bore holes and
Kiguma gravity water flow this will help to solve water problems in our area”. Said Harriet
Kaberi from Kiguma.
“In
Bunyansaigi village we don’t have water the bore holes are no longer working
and this has affected our children and women in the area who move long
distances looking for water even at night which has increased insecurities in families.
We request district duty bearers and sub county leaders to work on water issue
which has become a problem for the last 2-3 years.” Said Nyangoma Suzan from Kiguma
“We
don’t have electricity in Kiguma and
district leaders have been promising us over
and over but nothing has been done for
years now, kindly we call upon the duty bearers to fulfill their pledges
because we trusted them with our votes, we need to see a change this term”. Said Kugonza
Sam from Kiguma.
We take a great opportunity to thank
SIDA, NED, SPIDER, ICT4DEM, and CIPESA for financial support
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