MugishaX Diary

  Dear Diary, The turn up for the #BuswikiraMaraton was quite high, a surprise to many despite the 10km fundraising marathon being the first of its kind in that area – I hope it won’t be the last. This marathon at Buswikira Primary School, one of the UPE schools in the rural low-income communities of Mayuge District was to fundraise to build a toilet and rehabilitate sports facilities – an ideal that stemmed from the need for a school goal posts – the absence of which had caused a bad blood between the school and the neighbors whose trees would occasionally be cut to erect temporal goal posts. It is always a beautiful sight to see parents, leaders and different education stakeholders come together in tandem to remind us that education is and still and forever will be a basic right despite the impediments it faces – forgetting the past grudges and embracing the new light, what a beauty! The four communities that enroll their children, nieces, nephews, and who-not showed up in d...