Giving A Helping Hand; Tooro Action reaches out to Orphans in Kamwenge, donates scholastic materials & home equipment
As part of its charity drive, Tooro Action for Vulnerability and Human Rights, a Non-Government Organisation operating in Tooro sub region has donated scholastic materials to 600 orphans and home equipment materials to 300 guardians and poor communities from the villages of Bwirukiro, Rwensikiza I, Rwensikiza II and Mataaba in Bihanga Sub County, Kamwenge District.
These include books, pens, Mathematical sets, sanitary pads and boxes of soap and were donated through the assistance of their Germany partners.
They went on to donate a trip of bricks at Bwirukiro Catholic Church to facilitate the renovation of the church. Members of the church were also given a bar of soap each.
Atanazio Bazekuketa, the Executive Director Tooro Action for Vulnerability and Human Rights says that a bigger number of orphans have no access to education, what to use at home which also gives their guardians hard time. This he says has fuelled high dropout rate in the sub county. However, with the support from their Germany partners they have secured donations to give locals in poor households.
Atanazio asked parents to focus on sacrificing all possible to give education to their children, and guardians to orphans. He also calls for involvement in vocational skills as they bless children with money generating and hands on skills.
According to the school head teacher, Mr. Geoffrey Tumusiime, a bigger number of pupils leave school because of lacking scholastic materials and school fees. He cited that pupils who loose their parents during the course of education end up dropping out of school.
Tumusiime revealed that their guardians cannot manage to educate their own children and these orphans.
Pupils who spoke to this reporter revealed that they don’t perform well in class because of lacking materials to use in class as required by the school syllabus. The ones in Primary Seven, a candidate class who received Mathematical sets revealed that they have been failing mathematics because of lacking instruments to use.
Tooro Action staff members visited the office of the district community development officer Kamwenge
Pupils of Rwensikiza commended the support from Tooro Action for Vulnerability and Human Rights and Germany partners citing that it will help them improve in academics. These however, cry for the need for more support.
Beneficiaries that include community members and the guardians to the orphans say that the standards of living are at times unbearable.
Giving mathematical sets to primary candidates of Rwensikiza Primarily School
The guardians say they go through a lot to care after the orphans. These have appreciated Tooro Action for Vulnerability and Human Rights and Germany partners for the donation.
