JPIC in the Press, Mbuya

Objective

To awaken people in Uganda to injustice.

Activities 

  • Writing articles for newspaper drawing attention to local injustices, for example the cruel way cattle are crammed into lorries to be brought to the slaughter house in Kampala and the way house girls are treated.
  • To tell the story of Augustin Muserero. He began in a very small way by joining the JPIC club on UMU campus. Now he is involved in JPIC at an international level doing wonderful work.

 




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Date of Record Entry: 2017/04/25
Date of Record Last Modified: 2022/01/20

Enviornmental Care, Ggaba

Objective 

to improve environmental conditions.

Activities 

  • Decrease the quantity of water taken from a lake Victoria: harvest of rain water in a huge tank
  • Improve air quality: planting of fruit trees (indirectly: fruit harvest)
  • Improve waste management: Recycle plastic and newspapers in a plant; reuse tinfoil and plastic bags.  

 




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Date of Record Entry: 2017/04/25
Date of Record Last Modified: 2022/01/20

Clean Moroto, Naoi

The objective is to improve environmental conditions in Moroto.

Activities

  • Set a fruit and vegetable garden (indirectly: self-sustainability)
  • Compost from peelings and left-overs: soil fertility
  • Plastic recycling: lorry from a Kampala recycling plant comes and collect plastic rubbish. Partnership with NGO to have ex-prisonners helping in plastic rubbish collection.

 




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Date of Record Entry: 2017/04/25
Date of Record Last Modified: 2022/01/20

Care of the Enviornment, Kalungu

Objective

The overall objective is to teach the pupils of the Sacred Heart School of Kalungu to take care of each other and care for the life of everything growing on the compound, to instill in them the value of the works of mercy.

The specific objective is to improve local environmental conditions.

Activities 




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Date of Record Entry: 2017/04/25
Date of Record Last Modified: 2022/01/20

Care of Displaced People, Kyamusansala

Background

The Sango Bay refugee camp gathers around 5.000 people coming from Tanzania where they settled around 1980. They left from Western Uganda and moved to Tanzania to settle and farm. Many of the camp refugees were born in Tanzania. In 2014, Tanzania evicted them. Uganda allows them to live in makeshift huts at Sango Bay but they are not allowed to farm. 

Objective 

To alleviate the situation of displaced people at Sango Bay.  

Activities:




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Date of Record Entry: 2017/04/25
Date of Record Last Modified: 2022/01/20

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