Kyankwanzi quadruplets get donations

Sunday VISION

By Gladys Kalibbala

To many children in urban areas, it is not a big deal to get a new mattress. However, for quadruplets at Kamuchope, Najjanankumbi village in Kyankwanzi district, it was a cause for celebration.

The four children share a grass- stuffed mattress in their parents’ grass-thatched hut. At the sight of the new mattresses, they hugged each other, jumped and later displayed their mattresses outside to have a feel of sleeping on bed sheets and a blanket.

They told their father George Rwakabishe that they were not ready to share their new mattresses with anybody.

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The quadruplets were excited to receive matresses and blankets from two good Samaritans Lawrence and Paul Kawooya who are business men in Kampala

The two good Samaritans Lawrence and Paul Kawooya had made it possible for each of them to get a new mattress, bed sheets, blanket and a towel. The two businessmen in Kampala were responding to the children’s story that was published recently in Sunday Vision.

They visited the children and took for them sugar, milk, soap, bread and maize flour, among other items.

Rwakabishe was full of praises for Vision Group. “If it was not Vision Group, these people would not have met me,” he explained. Vision published his story in 2013 where good Samaritans responded to with sh800,000. Unfortunately the cattle trade he had planned to engage in never took off.

“The children were sickly that time and all the money was used to care for them,” Rwakabishe said. He extended thanks to Evelyn Karungi and the ‘Warrior Women’ who have also supported his family.

The quadruplets’ mother Scovia Kateteyi died in 2010, a week after giving birth to them. Her elder sister Joyce (present wife in the home) explains it was a big challenge to take care of the babies. “We were feeding them with cow milk as we could not afford to buy the one for babies.

They would fall sick at the same time and we were always in and out of hospitals,” she recalls.