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Aug 11, 2011
<b>Toro babies home gets sh18m items</b><br>The Rotary Club of Stord in Norway and Toro Child Care Center have donated items to Toro Babies Home worth sh17.7m. The items include mattresses, bedsheets, shoes, mosquito nets, bicycles, gas cylinders, sweaters and nappies.
Toro babies home gets sh18m items
The Rotary Club of Stord in Norway and Toro Child Care Center have donated items to Toro Babies Home worth sh17.7m. The items include mattresses, bedsheets, shoes, mosquito nets, bicycles, gas cylinders, sweaters and nappies. Kabarole district Rotary Club president Denis Mugarra said the donation was part of the club’s social responsibility. He made the remarks on Tuesday while handing over the items to the Babies Home officials in Fort Portal town, Kabarole district. Mugarra vowed to support needy children.
Rwenzururu to get sh3b from tourism
The Rwenzururu Kingdom has projected an annual income of sh3b from tourists visiting its cultural sites, the monarch’s third deputy prime minister, Johnson Thembo Kitstumbire, has said. Kitsumbire was recently addressing a crowd at Bikendi Hill which was later renamed Nyamutswa Fort on the Rwenzori mountains in Mahango sub-county, Kasese district. He was flagging off the Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu prime minister’s official tour to assess the on-going rehabilitation of the institution’s cultural sites.
Kanungu warned on idle pupils
Failure by children to participate in co-curricular activities is one of the factors that delay their learning ability and acquisition of basic life skills. Kanungu district education officer Goddie Willy Bakiga made the remarks while launching Pathfinders Club at Katete Model Pathfinders Primary School in Kambuga sub-county on Sunday. Bakiga said pupils who do not participate in co-curricular activities at school are sometimes slow learners.
Nyabushozi parents advised
Parents in Nyabushozi county in Kiruhura district have been advised to stop spending money on sending their children to Iraq for Kyeyo. Nyabushozi MP, who is also the vice-chairman of the parliamentary presidential affairs committee, Col. Fred Mwesigye, made the warning. He said parents should instead sell cows and give their children money to start up business, which he said were more profitable and could also create jobs for others. Mwesigye made the comments on Sunday while chairing the Nyabushozi Development Forum meeting in Rushere town.
The Rotary Club of Stord in Norway and Toro Child Care Center have donated items to Toro Babies Home worth sh17.7m. The items include mattresses, bedsheets, shoes, mosquito nets, bicycles, gas cylinders, sweaters and nappies. Kabarole district Rotary Club president Denis Mugarra said the donation was part of the club’s social responsibility. He made the remarks on Tuesday while handing over the items to the Babies Home officials in Fort Portal town, Kabarole district. Mugarra vowed to support needy children.
Rwenzururu to get sh3b from tourism
The Rwenzururu Kingdom has projected an annual income of sh3b from tourists visiting its cultural sites, the monarch’s third deputy prime minister, Johnson Thembo Kitstumbire, has said. Kitsumbire was recently addressing a crowd at Bikendi Hill which was later renamed Nyamutswa Fort on the Rwenzori mountains in Mahango sub-county, Kasese district. He was flagging off the Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu prime minister’s official tour to assess the on-going rehabilitation of the institution’s cultural sites.
Kanungu warned on idle pupils
Failure by children to participate in co-curricular activities is one of the factors that delay their learning ability and acquisition of basic life skills. Kanungu district education officer Goddie Willy Bakiga made the remarks while launching Pathfinders Club at Katete Model Pathfinders Primary School in Kambuga sub-county on Sunday. Bakiga said pupils who do not participate in co-curricular activities at school are sometimes slow learners.
Nyabushozi parents advised
Parents in Nyabushozi county in Kiruhura district have been advised to stop spending money on sending their children to Iraq for Kyeyo. Nyabushozi MP, who is also the vice-chairman of the parliamentary presidential affairs committee, Col. Fred Mwesigye, made the warning. He said parents should instead sell cows and give their children money to start up business, which he said were more profitable and could also create jobs for others. Mwesigye made the comments on Sunday while chairing the Nyabushozi Development Forum meeting in Rushere town.