THE BALCONY

Pupils of Gongwe SDA Primary School possing for a photo in front of one of the tanks donated to them. Courtesy Photo The American Embassy in Uganda has given 14 water tanks of 10000ltrs each to the school Children in Bukomansimbi district, a relief relating    water crisis in the area. The grant is a response    to the children between 6-14 years    through    Butenga Orphanage Care & Development Organization (BOCADO) an NGO operating in the District.   The grant had also permitted BOCADO to conduct a WASH Training within fourteen primary schools on promotion of personal hygiene including hand washing with soap after visiting toilets and the consequences arising from failure to washing dirty hands.   60 percent of diseases affecting children in Uganda are due to poor sanitation and no sanitation without water. The project’s overall goal was to ensure that before 2020 draws to a close, more girls and boys are enrolled, stay in school, learn, and

BY CHRISTOPHER KISEKKA The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has taken an administrative decision to the effect that any district or municipality, whose repayment rate for the Youth Livelihood Programme revolving funds falls below fifty percent of the amount due, will not receive further funding. In a letter dated January 27 to chief administrative officers and municipal clerks, Mr Pius Bigirimana, the Ministry Permanent Secretary informed that move has resulted from persistent failure to supervise, monitor, and moblise repayments. “…following persistent failure to supervise, monitor, and moblise repayments for the revolving fund advanced to the YLP, disbarment of project funds is suspended forthwith, until you meet the minimum requirement on payments,” the letter read in parts. Mr Bigirimana further noted that continued failure in meeting the minimum repayment requirements shall lead to relocating the resources to district and municipalities that have d