Mukono village gets water through WhatsApp group
Shared Blessing Primary School pupils with Ms Grace Nasiwa (L) and Rotary District Governor Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa (2ndL) pose at the water tank. PHOTO BY Yazid Yolisigira
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Noble. The idea to contribute funds came from members of the Kasangati Rotary Club who recognised that residents in Makukuba were sharing water from swamps and ponds with animals
Makukuba.
Residents of Makukuba Parish in Nabbaale Sub-county, Mukono District, can now access clean water from a 20,000-litre tank constructed with Shs8.2 million collected by Rotary Club presidents through their WhatsApp group.
The idea to contribute funds came from members of the Kasangati Rotary club who recognised that residents in Makukuba were sharing water from swamps and ponds with animals.
Ms Grace Nasiwa, the area chairperson, said the village has been struggling with diseases such as typhoid and diarrhea due to lack of clean water.
The village has 9,450 residents, out of which 7,230 are children.
Ms Julie Kamuzze Musoke, the chief mobiliser of the project and the Kasangati Rotary club president, said: “At the beginning of year, as leaders, through our WhatsApp groups, we shared ideas on what project we could invest in as a way of giving back to the community. We agreed to construct a water tank for the people of Makukuba.”
Ms Musoke said that through the group, 66 Rotary presidents contributed Shs100,000 each to raise about Shs5.9 million. She added that residents of Makukuba also cooperated by making bricks used to construct the water tank.
At the same time, the Rotary Club of Kasaganti and Children Safe Uganda, an NGO, have constructed a school known as Shared Blessing Primary Junior School, whose pupils will benefit from clean water from the just constructed water tank.
Rotary District Governor Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa, who handed over the water tank to the residents at the weekend, said water and good sanitation help to transform people’s lives by helping them to prevent waterborne diseases.
“We felt that those of us who are privileged should help those in need. If you spare some shillings, you can change the lives of people in a given community,” Mr Nsibirwa said.
Mr Nsibirwa, who doubles as a Buganda Kingdom minister, said the residents of Makakuba village have responded well by contributing to the cause.
The numbers
9,450
The number of residents in Makukuba village.
