Nuns seek sh2b to build centre for vulnerable people
Sep 21, 2010
THE Daughters of Mary, also known as Bannabiikira Sisters, need over sh2b to build a centre for vulnerable people.
By Mathias Mazinga
THE Daughters of Mary, also known as Bannabiikira Sisters, need over sh2b to build a centre for vulnerable people.
The centre, which is to be located at Kyengera in Wakiso district, will be monument for the institute’s centennial celebrations due to take place on December 4.
The nuns launched a fundraising drive with a charity walk in Kampala on Saturday. The charity walk, which started at the Centenary Park on Jinja Road, attracted hundreds of people from various parts of the country.
The chief walker, Justice Mary Stella Arach Amok, who represented Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki, praised the nuns for their immense contribution to development through Christian instruction, education, health and farming.
Arach asked Ugandans to make a contribution towards the preparations of the Bannabiikira Sisters’ centenary, whose influence in holistic development, she said, was being immensely felt throughout Uganda and East Africa.
The Mother Superior, the Very Rev. Mother Rosemary Namaganda, said the proposed multi-purpose building at Kyengera will serve as a centre for vulnerable women, children, youth and elderly nuns.
Namaganda invited Ugandans to attend the centenary celebrations, which will take place at the Sisters’ institute headquarters at Bwanda in Masaka.
Over sh11m was raised in cash and pledges during the charity walk.
THE Daughters of Mary, also known as Bannabiikira Sisters, need over sh2b to build a centre for vulnerable people.
The centre, which is to be located at Kyengera in Wakiso district, will be monument for the institute’s centennial celebrations due to take place on December 4.
The nuns launched a fundraising drive with a charity walk in Kampala on Saturday. The charity walk, which started at the Centenary Park on Jinja Road, attracted hundreds of people from various parts of the country.
The chief walker, Justice Mary Stella Arach Amok, who represented Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki, praised the nuns for their immense contribution to development through Christian instruction, education, health and farming.
Arach asked Ugandans to make a contribution towards the preparations of the Bannabiikira Sisters’ centenary, whose influence in holistic development, she said, was being immensely felt throughout Uganda and East Africa.
The Mother Superior, the Very Rev. Mother Rosemary Namaganda, said the proposed multi-purpose building at Kyengera will serve as a centre for vulnerable women, children, youth and elderly nuns.
Namaganda invited Ugandans to attend the centenary celebrations, which will take place at the Sisters’ institute headquarters at Bwanda in Masaka.
Over sh11m was raised in cash and pledges during the charity walk.