RAKAI, A PLACE OF MANY SIGHTS IN UGANDA

On the 17th -18th November 2011, a team of RWECO, which is a consortium of four organizations, Rwenzori Information centers Network RIC-NET, Integrated Women Development Program IWDP, Karambi Action for Life improvement KALI, and Good Hope Foundation for Rural Development GHFRD, along with the CSOs from DENIVA, PAC, CEFORD & ACODE visited the Neighborhood assembly for learning purposes in kasensero landing site Rakai District


Through the Kansesero peoples voice a neighborhood assembly (N.A) takes place every two months to discuss the key development concerns with the guidance of a speaker and a composition of the elected members from the various villages referred to as members of parliament and ministers representing the thematic areas The neighborhood assembly is the first of its kind in Uganda being promoted by DENIVA in Rakai


through the existing community based organizations, during the visit, the N.A in kansensero deliberated on how to improve on the standards of Education for their children as presented by the minister of education in the N.A, whereby out of 1500 children of school going age, only 800 children were in school, being a fishing community the minister of Agriculture also presented the status of the fishermen and the challenges they were facing like poor sanitation and hygiene at the temporary stall where they had been relocated in a nutshell the community members called upon Government to act fast on commission the completed stall.
Going through Rakai the learning team enjoyed the different sights of maramagambo forest, kasensero landing site, River kagera, pastoralists communities and most of it all was the excitement in the towns of Kyotera, Kalisizo as the crowds waited to receive the kabaka of Buganda during his official visit to the place.