News in brief
Sep 13, 2010
Makerere University students from Madi Okollo county will plant 100,000 trees in the constituency.
MUK students to plant trees
Makerere University students from Madi Okollo county will plant 100,000 trees in the constituency.
About 600 farmers and primary schools have been selected to benefit from the project.
Fred Athenaseus Dratibi, the chairperson of the students, said 50,000 teak, gravellier and pine seedlings had been distributed to tree farmers in upper Madi Okollo by Saturday, adding that an equal number would be taken to the lower parts of the county this week.
Women celebrate cultural change
Women in Nebbi district are celebrating the Alur Kingdom decision to abolish cultural practices deemed to violate women rights.
Alur culture dictates that newly-married women do not eat chicken and grasshoppers until their first born reaches 15 years of age.
Dr. Edwin Wathum, the premier of the Alur Kingdom, recently said the kingdom wants to change from such traditional ways.
“We should not tolerate things which violate women rights,†Wathum said.
Makerere University students from Madi Okollo county will plant 100,000 trees in the constituency.
About 600 farmers and primary schools have been selected to benefit from the project.
Fred Athenaseus Dratibi, the chairperson of the students, said 50,000 teak, gravellier and pine seedlings had been distributed to tree farmers in upper Madi Okollo by Saturday, adding that an equal number would be taken to the lower parts of the county this week.
Women celebrate cultural change
Women in Nebbi district are celebrating the Alur Kingdom decision to abolish cultural practices deemed to violate women rights.
Alur culture dictates that newly-married women do not eat chicken and grasshoppers until their first born reaches 15 years of age.
Dr. Edwin Wathum, the premier of the Alur Kingdom, recently said the kingdom wants to change from such traditional ways.
“We should not tolerate things which violate women rights,†Wathum said.