Vision Group signs partnership to improve health in Kanungu

By Raymond Baguma

Vision Group under the Newspapers in Education (NiE) project has signed an agreement with Bwindi Community Hospital to promote health awareness in 52 primary schools in Kanungu district.

Under the project, Vision Group will supply 520 copies of New Vision to schools in the sub-counties of Kayonza, Mpungu and Kanyantorogo in Kanungu.

The agreement was signed on Thursday between the head of Bwindi Community Hospital, Canon Charles Byarugaba and Vision Group’s, Chief Executive Officer, Robert Kabushenga.

Byarugaba said the partnership would link local communities in Kanungu with national issues covered in the media.
“The flow of information to the community is going to make a difference. This is a salute to New Vision for introducing us to this,” he said.

Kabushenga said the project would enable children to read newspapers and acquire reading skills in English as well as introduce children to a world of information.

“It is money well-spent on community improvement. We shall ensure delivery of the copies and quality of material,” Kabushenga added.

New Vision’s Editor-in-Chief, Barbara Kaija, said the project would enable children and the local communities boost their literacy skills as well as learn English. She cited beneficial weekly pullouts in New Vision such as Mwalimu and Toto Magazine.

“When children read, they make it in life. Newspapers offer them an incentive to read. Apart from a role in sanitation, they will also be learning how to read,” Kaija said.

She said similar agreements signed recently between Vision Group, Wateraid and the National Drug Authority had begun bearing fruit and advancing society.