Benefits of the “Enhancing Civic Competence for Social accountability” role out to the Island

Not only with the anxiety to visit the only island district in Uganda, great work also has been done there after a thorough training of District leaders in website and E-library training.

The journey started on 13^th March 2013 with the RIC-NET I.C.T team accompanied by another team from Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (F.H.R.I) to the Ssese islands.

Speaking with the Deputy Chief Administrative officer in his office shortly before the training, he welcomed the team to Kalangala and told us to feel at home and that as the District they are in agreement with the project and that they hope for the best out of it.

The two days training i.e 14^th -15^th March 2013 covered a number of topics including fundamentals of I.C.T, website and e-library management using content management systems among others.

The training that was held at the District headquarters attracted District officials from the planning unit, probation and the District Information Officer and F.H.R.I officials.

The trainees embraced all skills given to them and promised to follow up on them and practice all that had been given to them.

District Headquarters Kalangala

“This training has been great for me and I have benefited a lot from it” said the District Information Officer Mr. Isaac Mugerwa.

Their site will be hosted at www.kalangala.go.ug as soon as data is fed into the design and then uploaded. The district E-library is already online at http://elibrary.kalangala.go.ug .

The training attracted four members three male and one female.

Training Session

Facts about kalangala

It wasn’t all about the training but also more other interesting facts were found out about the land separated by waters.

Kalangala District is made up of 84 islands of which 64 are habitable while the 20 are not with Ssese island being the biggest of all. It’s a tourism center with a number of tourism attractions.

Kalangala is connected to the rest of Uganda through a ferry that acts as a bridge and carries people from the island to the other Districts.

Kalangala District has three secondary schools and over 20 primary schools and therefore the level of education is low. Some parents fear their children going to school since they have to cross waters every time they go to school and hence the dangers associated to that has caused many not to go to school. A few who go out of kalangala for Education make it to the higher levels.