Lion’s Club builds Arua deaf pupils a modern dormitory
DEAF pupils at Eruba Primary School in Arua district have a cause to smile. From sleeping on papyrus mats laid on a muddy floor, the Lions Club on Monday handed them a fully furnished dormitory.
By Frank Mugabi
DEAF pupils at Eruba Primary School in Arua district have a cause to smile. From sleeping on papyrus mats laid on a muddy floor, the Lions Club on Monday handed them a fully furnished dormitory.
The dormitory equipped with metallic decker beds, mattresses, blankets and bed sheets was constructed by the Lions Club of Arua and Lions Clubs of Trondheim and Malvik in Norway at sh35m.
Bjorg Hernes, a member of the Lions Club of Malvik presided over the commissioning ceremony that was marked with stunning performances including a play by the deaf pupils.
Hernes, who is in Uganda for her first time, could not stop tears from streaming down her face as she was taken around the former dormitory filled with papyrus mats that the pupils carried from home.
Others present were the director of Lions Aid Norway, Jan Erik Larsen, and members of the Lions Club of Arua.
The club chairman, Tom Aliti Candia, said they already donated various items ranging from food, scholastic materials, utensils, blankets, sanitary facilities and clothes to the blind and deaf pupils in the district.
The school headmistress, Salome Efukia, hailed the Lions clubs for coming to the pupils’ aid because they were about to be evicted from the incomplete house belonging to the church that they were renting.
Efukia said this would attract parents with disabled children to enroll them in school.
The Lion’s Club has been involved in activities that have benefited the less fortunate people. They include eye operations for cataract patients in Nebbi and Arua districts.
They also donated medical supplies (syringes and gloves), clothes and soap plus money to the suffering children in the pediatric and maternity wards in Arua Referral Hospital.
DEAF pupils at Eruba Primary School in Arua district have a cause to smile. From sleeping on papyrus mats laid on a muddy floor, the Lions Club on Monday handed them a fully furnished dormitory.
The dormitory equipped with metallic decker beds, mattresses, blankets and bed sheets was constructed by the Lions Club of Arua and Lions Clubs of Trondheim and Malvik in Norway at sh35m.
Bjorg Hernes, a member of the Lions Club of Malvik presided over the commissioning ceremony that was marked with stunning performances including a play by the deaf pupils.
Hernes, who is in Uganda for her first time, could not stop tears from streaming down her face as she was taken around the former dormitory filled with papyrus mats that the pupils carried from home.
Others present were the director of Lions Aid Norway, Jan Erik Larsen, and members of the Lions Club of Arua.
The club chairman, Tom Aliti Candia, said they already donated various items ranging from food, scholastic materials, utensils, blankets, sanitary facilities and clothes to the blind and deaf pupils in the district.
The school headmistress, Salome Efukia, hailed the Lions clubs for coming to the pupils’ aid because they were about to be evicted from the incomplete house belonging to the church that they were renting.
Efukia said this would attract parents with disabled children to enroll them in school.
The Lion’s Club has been involved in activities that have benefited the less fortunate people. They include eye operations for cataract patients in Nebbi and Arua districts.
They also donated medical supplies (syringes and gloves), clothes and soap plus money to the suffering children in the pediatric and maternity wards in Arua Referral Hospital.