Vision readers aid mothers of multiples
Feb 22, 2009
THE 19year-old Nakku, the mother of triplets who appeared in The New Vision newspaper of February 9 seeking assistance could not believe her eyes! <br>Good Samaritans from around Kampala carried food stuff, milk, clothes, blankets and many other items to
By Gladys Kalibbala
THE 19year-old Nakku, the mother of triplets who appeared in The New Vision newspaper of February 9 seeking assistance could not believe her eyes!
Good Samaritans from around Kampala carried food stuff, milk, clothes, blankets and many other items to her home in Wampeewo near Gayaza for her and the children.
“Maama nnyabo bino byonna mubiretede nze?†She asked in her mother tongue as she looked at the boxes in awe. (Meaning: All these things for me?)
The donations seemed to be timely as Nakku’s brother-in-law, who was supporting her lost his job.
He was a boda-boda rider and the motorcycle he was using broke down. Because the owner had no money to fix it, he told him to look for work else where.
Among the donors were the Director of Chui Arts at Lugogo showground, Lorna Kiema, who got many items from her fellow women of the Kenya Women’s Association and the staff from her place of work.
The Administrative Assistant for IUCN Florence Tumwiine also took clothes and food. Others were Jennifer Mayanja and Joselyn Lubwama who also offered milk and clothes.
Nakku had appealed to the public for assistance with her four months triplets as her husband Joseph Serwadda was sacked from work and thrown out by the landlord at Kawuku on Entebbe road.
She has another four year old child and looks after her elder sister’s daughter, who ran mad. She can be contacted through a sister Vicky Nalumansi on Tel No 0773200067
Meanwhile the needy quadruplets produced last November by Mary and George Kakuru of Lwattimba village in Bukomero, Kiboga District also got some assistance.
These children who were being assisted single handedly by Barbara Kasekende of AIG Uganda since November, 2008, were this time lucky to get donations from a 23year-old set of twins Brenda Nakato and Barbara Babirye.
The twins who are not yet employed said they sacrificed their Christmas’s shopping in order to save for these children.
“Our mother died when we were very young and as we grew up we started getting this feeling of attachment towards needy twins and multiples.†Nakato said
She added that they had started an association of twins which seeks to help their needy counterparts and at the moment they have four active sets of twins within their group.
The two girls have recently been assisting a set of two year old twins whose father disappeared, leaving them and many other children under the care of their helpless mother in Bukoto, a Kampala suburb.
“We don’t have much money but once in a while when we get allowances from our father, we contribute an additional small capital into their mother’s business of Tomatoes at her home,†Nakato said.
Other good samaritans were Charles Kimbowa of Youth Alive, Jinja and Joselyn Nabweteme, a senior six student of Nabisunsa Girls School, who contributed sh30,000, which was meant for her pocket money, to the children.
The couple staying in a small hut without any bed for the children, already had five other children with the eldest, a boy of nine years while the one followed by the quadruplets, a girl of two.
They now have nine children and the father, a herdsman around the village finds difficulty in feeding them.
The babies comprising two boys and two girls were re-admitted just two weeks after delivery at Nsambya Hospital as they were very sick.
Again last week one of the boys who has turned 3months was admitted at Bukomero Health Centre with what the mother says was prescribed as hernia.
The mother still lacks milk and clothes for these children and is in a dilemma as to how she will treat the one suffering from hernia.
THE 19year-old Nakku, the mother of triplets who appeared in The New Vision newspaper of February 9 seeking assistance could not believe her eyes!
Good Samaritans from around Kampala carried food stuff, milk, clothes, blankets and many other items to her home in Wampeewo near Gayaza for her and the children.
“Maama nnyabo bino byonna mubiretede nze?†She asked in her mother tongue as she looked at the boxes in awe. (Meaning: All these things for me?)
The donations seemed to be timely as Nakku’s brother-in-law, who was supporting her lost his job.
He was a boda-boda rider and the motorcycle he was using broke down. Because the owner had no money to fix it, he told him to look for work else where.
Among the donors were the Director of Chui Arts at Lugogo showground, Lorna Kiema, who got many items from her fellow women of the Kenya Women’s Association and the staff from her place of work.
The Administrative Assistant for IUCN Florence Tumwiine also took clothes and food. Others were Jennifer Mayanja and Joselyn Lubwama who also offered milk and clothes.
Nakku had appealed to the public for assistance with her four months triplets as her husband Joseph Serwadda was sacked from work and thrown out by the landlord at Kawuku on Entebbe road.
She has another four year old child and looks after her elder sister’s daughter, who ran mad. She can be contacted through a sister Vicky Nalumansi on Tel No 0773200067
Meanwhile the needy quadruplets produced last November by Mary and George Kakuru of Lwattimba village in Bukomero, Kiboga District also got some assistance.
These children who were being assisted single handedly by Barbara Kasekende of AIG Uganda since November, 2008, were this time lucky to get donations from a 23year-old set of twins Brenda Nakato and Barbara Babirye.
The twins who are not yet employed said they sacrificed their Christmas’s shopping in order to save for these children.
“Our mother died when we were very young and as we grew up we started getting this feeling of attachment towards needy twins and multiples.†Nakato said
She added that they had started an association of twins which seeks to help their needy counterparts and at the moment they have four active sets of twins within their group.
The two girls have recently been assisting a set of two year old twins whose father disappeared, leaving them and many other children under the care of their helpless mother in Bukoto, a Kampala suburb.
“We don’t have much money but once in a while when we get allowances from our father, we contribute an additional small capital into their mother’s business of Tomatoes at her home,†Nakato said.
Other good samaritans were Charles Kimbowa of Youth Alive, Jinja and Joselyn Nabweteme, a senior six student of Nabisunsa Girls School, who contributed sh30,000, which was meant for her pocket money, to the children.
The couple staying in a small hut without any bed for the children, already had five other children with the eldest, a boy of nine years while the one followed by the quadruplets, a girl of two.
They now have nine children and the father, a herdsman around the village finds difficulty in feeding them.
The babies comprising two boys and two girls were re-admitted just two weeks after delivery at Nsambya Hospital as they were very sick.
Again last week one of the boys who has turned 3months was admitted at Bukomero Health Centre with what the mother says was prescribed as hernia.
The mother still lacks milk and clothes for these children and is in a dilemma as to how she will treat the one suffering from hernia.