On 30th, May, 2017 ToroDev
held rural radio magazine/debate in Nyantaboma parish Harugongo sub county Kabarole districts to
capture issues and concerns of rural women, youths and Duty bearers from hard
to reach areas of Kyemengo,Bulyambuzi,Nyabukara,Nyabira and other villages
surrounding Harugongo sub county Kabarole district
The main
objective of holding rural radio
magazine/debates is to capture the voices of rural women and youth in
hard to reach communities and later their voices/ concerns to be amplified on
jubilee radio for the attention of duty bearers to respond.
Concerns
from 58 people 38 women, 18 youths and 2 duty bearers were recorded by talkshow
moderator Mr. Mukonyezi Wilfred and their voices will be amplified live on 4th
June 2017 on Jubilee Fm during listener’s forum program that is sponsored by
ToroDev that starts from 8:00-10:00pm every Sunday.
Shiela Amanya of ToroDev talking to Women before the start of the Rural Radio Magazine/debate in Nyantabooma |
“We don’t have government
aided primary school in Nyantaboma the one we have is at the sub county which
is like 7 kilometers from Nyantaboma and its serving the whole sub county. We
request the government to support education sector in Nyantaboma by constructing
one secondary school and primary school because we can’t afford to pay school
frees in privet schools.
Said Aliganyira Jane from Nyantaboma Harugongo sub county Kabarole district.
Jane added
that in Nyantaboma we lack water, people are drinking dirty water which is
unhealthy to their lives and we have one borehole serving all villages around
Nyantaboma which is a weakness in district water department. We request water
Engineer to work on this issue of water that is affecting people especially
women and children.
“The roads are in bad conditions
especially from Nyantaboma to Harugongo and Nyantaboma to Nyabukara because of
the lorries that come for lime stones which makes them impassable especially
during rainy season and they develop potholes and this makes children suffer
when accessing schools while using motorcycles and even accessing health centres and also marketing of our
produce. Said
Katusabe Safinah, Kyemengo Harugongo Sub County.
“In Nyantaboma health centre III nurses report late and
leave early and they don’t attend to patients and yet they stay around and we
also have a problem of shortage of drugs and water which is affecting health services
in our area, We request our leaders to lobby and improve infrastructures in the
health centers more especially water which can help in women ward, “said Nyangoma Robina.
Participants during the rural radio magazine in Nyantabooma sharing with Jubilee radio moderator, Wilfred Mukonyezi |
“We have failed to benefit in operation wealth creation
programs they release seeds late and people are not informed on time to pick
them at the sub county and this affects famers who plant them and end up not
benefiting. We request program coordinators at sub county levels to inform
people on time when these seeds are released if people are to benefit’’, said Generous Twesige from Nyantaboma.
“We have limited
school facilities such as desks, text books at Harugongo primary school compared
to the number of children in the school. We request Kabarole district education
department to lobby for school materials so that our children can get good
education facilities especially those in government aided schools,” Said Sofia
Kabahweza from Nyantaboma.
“There is lack of an ambulance at Nyantaboma
health centre III for emergency especially to transport women who get
complications during labor time and this puts women at risk in most
cases we always have to call to send for us an ambulance to take us to regional
referral hospital .The government should help and support this health centre if
they are to improve services,”
Said Happy Beatrice.
“We have a challenge with water in Kyemengo
village, boreholes we have been using are no longer working and this has
affected children. There is increased dropout rate from school in this area
where children loiter in markets and gardens during school days. We request the
government to work on these bore holes so that we can be able to get water in
Kyemengo’’, said Birungi Jane from
Kyemengo Nyantaboma.
“We suffer losses during transporting
our crops due to impassable roads and we are charged high costs to transport
our produce to Harugongo market and this affects us a lot especially us who
deal in agriculture as our main activity. We request Harugongo sub county duty
bearers to lobby and work on Nyantaboma -Harugongo road,” Said Rose Marry Kisembo.
We take a great opportunity to thank
SIDA, NED, SPIDER, ICT4DEM, and CIPESA for financial support