Gulu gets sports equipment boost
Feb 18, 2009
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated sports equipment worth about sh60m to schools in Gulu District.
By Dennis Ojwee
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated sports equipment worth about sh60m to schools in Gulu District.
The donation is to initiate various sporting activities for children as part of the trauma counselling and therapy exercise after the 22-year-old armed rebellion by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Acholi sub-region.
The equipment includes soccer balls, volley balls and net balls, a set of soccer uniforms and a netball set of uniforms for each of the 11 primary schools to benefit from the donation.
Part of the donation has 11 pairs of football goalposts and nets, netball poles and rings and volley ball poles and nets respectively for each of the schools. The equipment was handed over to the Gulu LC 5 vice chairman Mcmot Kitara.
“Your support comes at the right time when the district is in a transition period from war to peace that needs a lot of therapies through games or sports,†Kitara said.
The District Education Officer (DEO), Rev. Vincent Ocen-Ocen said the equipment had come in handy.
He said there are 65 primary schools in Gulu, out of which 11 have received the USAID support.
The beneficiaries are St.Martin Lukome, Awor-Nyim, Agweno, Oguro, Ogul, Loyo-Ajonga, Opaya, Kulu-Otit, St. Martin Lapiny-Oloyo, Bwobo-Ma-Nam and Abako primary schools.
The handover took place at St. Martin-Lukome Primary School, seven kilometres along the Gulu-Apyeta road north of Gulu town, Bungatira sub-county, Aswa County.
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated sports equipment worth about sh60m to schools in Gulu District.
The donation is to initiate various sporting activities for children as part of the trauma counselling and therapy exercise after the 22-year-old armed rebellion by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Acholi sub-region.
The equipment includes soccer balls, volley balls and net balls, a set of soccer uniforms and a netball set of uniforms for each of the 11 primary schools to benefit from the donation.
Part of the donation has 11 pairs of football goalposts and nets, netball poles and rings and volley ball poles and nets respectively for each of the schools. The equipment was handed over to the Gulu LC 5 vice chairman Mcmot Kitara.
“Your support comes at the right time when the district is in a transition period from war to peace that needs a lot of therapies through games or sports,†Kitara said.
The District Education Officer (DEO), Rev. Vincent Ocen-Ocen said the equipment had come in handy.
He said there are 65 primary schools in Gulu, out of which 11 have received the USAID support.
The beneficiaries are St.Martin Lukome, Awor-Nyim, Agweno, Oguro, Ogul, Loyo-Ajonga, Opaya, Kulu-Otit, St. Martin Lapiny-Oloyo, Bwobo-Ma-Nam and Abako primary schools.
The handover took place at St. Martin-Lukome Primary School, seven kilometres along the Gulu-Apyeta road north of Gulu town, Bungatira sub-county, Aswa County.