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KATUTANDIKE UGANDA (KTU) PARTICIPATES IN THE CBS PEWOSA2014 EXHIBITION

From the 19th to the 23rd of June 2014, Ka Tutandike Uganda participated in the cottage and food industries trade fair organized by Central Broadcasting Station (CBS) a popular local radio station. The exhibition provided a great platform for KaTutandike Uganda to showcase our premium enterprise product KaTu Honey as well as gauge public opinion in regards to the new Ka Tu honey packaging. Many sales were made and many contacts for partnership were acquired.

DISABLED YOUNG WOMEN IN MASAKA DISTRICT RECEIVE TRAINING IN BEE KEEPING AS A BUSINESS.

KTU conducted a three day training programme for a group of 50 rural young women with disabilities, in Masaka district. From 10 – 12 June, the women attended the training to introduce them to beekeeping as a business. The knowledge and skills imparted will empower this group of women to start up apiary farms which are aimed at promoting financial stability in the lives of these women, their children and immediate families. The group members will individually receive start-up kits (bee hives, protective wears, airtight buckets, smokers and bee brushes) to begin apiary projects.

The training was funded by Master Card and the Singapore Committee for UN Women.

THE DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD -KTU’S FOCUS ON EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT (ECD)

Ka Tutandike Uganda joins all actors in commemorating the Day of the African Child. This year’s theme focuses on, “A child friendly, quality, free and compulsory education for all children in Africa,” and the general objective this year is to call the attention of African governments to their responsibilities in respect of ensuring children’s right to education in accordance with the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (Children’s Charter). The 2014 theme is even more significant in light of the fact that the Soweto uprising which the Day of the African Child commemorates was a protest for an appropriate education. Studies have shown that the education system in African countries is still characterized by poor completion rates, high withdrawal rates, poor indicators for secondary education, and poor continental commitments to pre-primary education.

KTU EXPANDS ECD PROGRAMME

As KTU advances its expansion plans for the ECD programme, a joint dialogue was held on 29 May, 2014 to agree on the way forward for the identified markets of Natete and Wankulukuku under the leadership of Lubaga divison and Kibuye market under the leadership of Buganda Kingdom – REXBA Limited. The meeting was presided over by her Lordship the Mayor of Lubaga division – Ms. Joyce Nabbossa Sebugwawo. As way forward, the team agreed to concentrate the ECD programme in Natete and Kibuye markets and thereafter replicate to other markets within the division.

KTU also takes this opportunity to thank her Lordship the Mayor of Lubaga division for being very proactive to issues of development and for her passion towards the wellbeing of vulnerable children.

CELEBRATING EDUCATION - THE GLOBAL ACTION WEEK FOR EDUCATION

“EDUCATION, DISABILITY AND EMPLOYMENT”

Ka Tutandike Uganda (KTU) joins the rest of the world in celebrating the “Global Action Week for Education” from 4 to 10 May. 2014 Global Action Week focuses on “Equal Right, Equal Opportunity: Education and Disability”. For KTU, disability is an issue that the organization places priority on, and we mainstream disability in all our programme areas, including our own human resource recruits.

Global Action Week is one of the major focal points for the education movement, it provides everyone campaigning for the right to education with an opportunity to highlight a core area of the “Education For All” agenda and make targeted efforts to achieve change on the ground.

MARKING INTERNATIONAL LABOUR DAY

CELEBRATING THE ROLE OF WOMEN’S UNPAID AND UNVALUED WORK

Ka Tutandike Uganda (KTU) joins the rest of the World in Commemorating the International Labour Day on 1 May. KTU marks this Labour Day as a time to celebrate the role of workers in the economy and address the real economic issues.

Uganda is a signatory to the International Labour Organization (ILO) convention on the rights of workers, which we joined soon after Independence in 1962.

However, as Uganda and the rest of the World celebrate this day, KTU calls on Governments and institutions to recognize women’s unpaid work as a Human Rights Issue. Women do most of the care work in families; they care for children, the elderly, the sick, the disabled among others. We must recognize that heavy and unequal care burdens may curtail the enjoyment of human rights by women and girls, including their rights to education, work, social security and participation, as well as to rest and leisure. Systematically unequal distribution of care work and household chores between women and men also raises concerns in terms of the right to equality and non-discrimination and the obligations of Governments in this regard.

GGABA MARKET ELECTS AN ECD COMMITTEE

The leadership of Gaba Market together with the women vendors elected representatives to the Gaba ECD management committee, composed of representatives of the market Leadership, the Local council committee, Police child and Family welfare department, the Education department, and Health departments, trained Care Givers, Parents of young children, women leaders and a representative from KTU.

KTU PROVIDES SEED FUNDING FOR PURCHASE OF A OF PEANUT BUTTER MAKING MACHINE TO UMOJA WOMEN’S GROUP IN NAKAWA MARKET.

Seed funding towards the purchase of a social enterprise partnership, KTU procured a peanut butter making machine for UMOJA women’s group of Nakawa Market.

KA TUANDIKE UGANDA JOINS ALL WOMEN IN CELEBRATING 2014 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY ON 8 MARCH

We celebrate women the world over in marking the great achievements they have contributed towards sustainable peace and development.

The United Nations declares an annual theme for women’s day celebrations and the International Women’s Day 2014 Theme is: “Equality for women is progress for all.”

"The theme highlights the importance of achieving equality for women and girls not simply because it is a matter of fairness and fundamental human rights, but because progress in so many other areas depends on it.” Ban Ki-moon – UN Secretary General.

KTTUK Trustees visit KTU

In January, the outgoing chair of KTTUK Board of Trustee Ms. Heidi Kruitwagen together with the new Chairperson - Ms. Anisha Rajapakse, were with the team in Uganda, visiting and assessing progress of KTU programme interventions and the development of the homey manufacturing Social Enterprise.

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