Catholic women tipped on how to make money

By Francis Emorut                                                                                       

KAMPALA - A top city advocate has advised Catholic women to engage in income-generating activities to create wealth for their families.

Johnson Kwesigabo was speaking during the Catholic women convention at Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala.

The convention, meant to support family groups, brought together Catholic women from all the dioceses in the country.  ​

Kwesigabo outlined ways of creating wealth as having economic activity, working hard, being focused, having culture of savings and being patriotic, as well as taking advantage of good infrastructure  especially roads to access the market.

He emphasized the importance of savings, saying wealth is created from accumulated savings.

The lawyer encouraged women to start projects in agriculture because they can reap big income especially growing high-value crops.

He placed blame on the education system which he said only focuses on academic excellence and has made every graduate only to seek white-collar jobs at the expense of being creative.

"It's a big problem to tell agriculture graduates to go the villages and do farming but instead they will look for employment in the city.”

Kwesigabo hailed the New Vision pullout Harvest Money which educates people on how to make money and encouraged women to draw lessons from the piece of publication.
 

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From left, Lady Justice Mary Maitum, Msgr.Gerald Kalumba (Christ The King), Fr. Nicholas Kayongo and advocate Johnson Kwesigabo at the convention. (Credit: Francis Emorut)

On his part, the parish priest of Christ the King, Msgr. Gerald Kalumba, re-echoed that stance, urging the women to support their families by engaging in economic activity that earns them money.

Florence Kwesigabo, the coordinator of Uganda Episcopal Conference in charge of campaign on prevention of domestic violence, advised women to love their husbands to avoid domestic violence.

She said some women have become hostile to their husbands, especially when he returns back home with nothing.

Lady Justice Mary Maitum appealed to parents to create time for their children despite their busy schedules.

"Let's not make money at the cost of children and find no time for them.”