Kitende buys 50 rosaries

By Juliet Lukwago

St. Mary’s Kitende Secondary School on Entebbe road has joined other companies to contribute towards the renovation of the martyrs shrines at Namugongo and Munyonyo.

The school director, Lawrence Mulindwa, on behalf of the school management, handed over sh5m to Vision Group CEO Robert Kabushenga at the school campus at A’Level premises on Tuesday.

Mulindwa said: “let me take this chance to thank Vision Group and Archbishop of Kampala Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga for the work they are doing to see that the renovation of the martyrs’ shrines is done.”

“Thank you for bringing the rosaries which are going to be our souvenir as we remember the visit of Pope Francis in Uganda. This is a good idea to all of us Ugandans, most especially us since our school patron is the Virgin Mary,” he added.

He said this is the beginning and he promised to continue buying more rosaries before the Pope’s visit next week. He said he got a chance to see Pope John Paul II in 1993.

Mulindwa said he had bought the rosaries as part of fundraising towards the reconstruction of the martyrs’ shrines.

He said he was not only buying them to contribute towards the noble cause, but that they will recite them because they know what

Mother Mary does for them as a school and they treasure her.

“I call upon other Ugandans to help as Vision Group did,” Mulindwa said.

Kabushenga thanked St. Mary’s Kitende for the contribution and said starting next week, Vision Group TV stations will be airing different programmes of the Pope.

He also called upon other schools, organisations and companies to emulate St.

Mary’s Kitende and other companies which have already bought the rosaries as contribution to the noble cause.

“We have only one week, I call upon Ugandans to come and buy the rosaries, so that we renovate the last part of the martyrs’ shrines before our visitor comes,” Kabushenga said.