Namugongo students spread love to their hood
NOT even the scorching sun could stop them from walking through Namugongo to express peace. Carrying peace banners and boxes of donations, the Uganda Martyrs Namugongo Secondary School students last Saturday took peace to the Namugongo Burooli and Janda community to mark their peace day.
By Agnes Kyotalengerire
NOT even the scorching sun could stop them from walking through Namugongo to express peace. Carrying peace banners and boxes of donations, the Uganda Martyrs Namugongo Secondary School students last Saturday took peace to the Namugongo Burooli and Janda community to mark their peace day.
During the walk, the students that were joined by staff, the LC1 chairman Namugongo Burooli, Nasir Nsubuga, members of Namugongo Shrine church and pupils from namugongo Girls Primary School. They distributed items such as pens, pencils, books, sugar, soap, salt and juice.
Nsubuga, the guest-of-honour advised the students to be advocates of peace and to “take the project seriously because it is helping you acquire conflict resolution skillsâ€.
The walk was aimed at expressing love to the children and the elderly in the community, said Lorna Mulindwa, a student.
She added that sharing was one way of preventing conflicts in the community.
“The peace charity walk which includes sharing with our neighbours, brothers and sisters the little that we have enhances unity,†said Arnold Agaba.
He explained that the students sacrificed pens, pencils, books, toilet paper to share with the disadvantaged and pupils from neighbouring primary schools.
The school administration contributed 50kg of sugar, 50 rolls of toilet paper and boxes of soap. Pupils of Namugongo Girls primary also contributed books.
The students donated some of these items to pupils of St. Kizito Junior Primary school, a neighbouring school.
To crown the peace day, the students visited nsambya Babies Home where they donated sugar, soap and juice to the children.
NOT even the scorching sun could stop them from walking through Namugongo to express peace. Carrying peace banners and boxes of donations, the Uganda Martyrs Namugongo Secondary School students last Saturday took peace to the Namugongo Burooli and Janda community to mark their peace day.
During the walk, the students that were joined by staff, the LC1 chairman Namugongo Burooli, Nasir Nsubuga, members of Namugongo Shrine church and pupils from namugongo Girls Primary School. They distributed items such as pens, pencils, books, sugar, soap, salt and juice.
Nsubuga, the guest-of-honour advised the students to be advocates of peace and to “take the project seriously because it is helping you acquire conflict resolution skillsâ€.
The walk was aimed at expressing love to the children and the elderly in the community, said Lorna Mulindwa, a student.
She added that sharing was one way of preventing conflicts in the community.
“The peace charity walk which includes sharing with our neighbours, brothers and sisters the little that we have enhances unity,†said Arnold Agaba.
He explained that the students sacrificed pens, pencils, books, toilet paper to share with the disadvantaged and pupils from neighbouring primary schools.
The school administration contributed 50kg of sugar, 50 rolls of toilet paper and boxes of soap. Pupils of Namugongo Girls primary also contributed books.
The students donated some of these items to pupils of St. Kizito Junior Primary school, a neighbouring school.
To crown the peace day, the students visited nsambya Babies Home where they donated sugar, soap and juice to the children.