WHEN SOME PEOPLE DECIDE TO STEAL YOUR MONEY AS THEY DID IN MY CASE, YOU PRAY TO GOD TO TAKE THEM OUT OF SOCIETY AS THEY ARE AN INCONVENIENCE.
This is where I find myself after all the monies I raised to Uganda got stolen by the connected who see themselves entitled to what even does not lawfully belong to them!
This is where I find myself after all the monies I raised to Uganda got stolen by the connected who see themselves entitled to what even does not lawfully belong to them!
There is nothing you are going to take out of this earth. Naked as you came is how you are going to leave when God decides.
Nze munsesa.
Mufaaki n’ensi?
My fundraising efforts from 2010 to 2023 where I have not been able to access a coin are listed below:
1.
http://williamkituuka.blogspot.com/2010/09/kind-appeal-for-moral-support-and_01.html?m=1
2.
http://billkiwanuka.blogspot.com/2014/10/kiwanuka-kituuka-for-2016-uganda.html?m=1
3.
http://kiwanukaofunityinafederateduganda.blogspot.com/2015/05/kiwanuka-kituukas-appeal-for-financial_7.html?m=1
4.
https://communityeducators-uganda.blogspot.com/2020/06/welcome-to-community-educators-uganda.html?m=1
5. Namutamba Parish Local Economic Development Model.
My fundraising efforts from 2010 to 2023 where I have not been able to access a coin are listed below:
1.
http://williamkituuka.blogspot.com/2010/09/kind-appeal-for-moral-support-and_01.html?m=1
2.
http://billkiwanuka.blogspot.com/2014/10/kiwanuka-kituuka-for-2016-uganda.html?m=1
3.
http://kiwanukaofunityinafederatedugaCenda.blogspot.com/2015/05/kiwanuka-kituukas-appeal-for-financial_7.html?m=1
4.
https://communityeducators-uganda.blogspot.com/2020/06/welcome-to-community-educators-uganda.html?m=1
5. Namutamba Parish Local Economic Development Model.
My fundraising efforts from 2010 to 2023 where I have not been able to access a coin are listed below:
1.
http://williamkituuka.blogspot.com/2010/09/kind-appeal-for-moral-support-and_01.html?m=1
2.
http://billkiwanuka.blogspot.com/2014/10/kiwanuka-kituuka-for-2016-uganda.html?m=1
3.
http://kiwanukaofunityinafederateduganda.blogspot.com/2015/05/kiwanuka-kituukas-appeal-for-financial_7.html?m=1
4.
https://communityeducators-uganda.blogspot.com/2020/06/welcome-to-community-educators-uganda.html?m=1
5. Namutamba Parish Local Economic Development Model.
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#MonitorUpdates
Students across the country, who will qualify to join A-Level education, will now be required to study for up to five years, should the government approve the new A-Level curriculum in the offing.
Initially, students have been studying Senior Five and Six in two years’ time before joining universities.
According to the proposed amendments in the A-Level curriculum, the tenure for A-Level will be a minimum of two years and maximum of five years to enhance inclusivity.
General Paper, which was initially being offered by all students, will be replaced with contemporary studies such as generic, ICT and research skills; financial literacy, basic nutrition, climate change, functional statistics and peace building.
Retakes
Learners who will fail Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) examinations will now be required to repeat only a failed subject. Initially, if a learner failed to attain two principle passes, they would be required to repeat the entire examination.
This is witnessed at universities where a student who fails a paper is allowed to proceed to the next semester, and retake the paper he or she failed later.
School-based assessment set to constitute 20 percent of the end of cycle grade has also been introduced at this level, just like it was done in the new lower secondary curriculum.
This means students will be working for an 80 percent mark when they sit for UACE examinations conducted by Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb).
In an interview with Saturday Monitor yesterday, the deputy director curriculum review and instructional materials development at the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), Ms Bernadette Nambi, said the five years component is to enable a student who will not be able to finish A-Level in two years retake all the papers he or she will fail.
“You know some students are not very bright. These learners will be given a chance to finish all the papers they might fail in a period of five years. Since there is a high dropout rate under this level, we want to make it more flexible so that students are given an opportunity to finish all their papers in five years,” Ms Nambi said.
Between 2021 and 2022, NCDC conducted a needs assessment study to identify the gaps in the current A-Level curriculum and findings established it does not align to the current new lower secondary curriculum, does not equip graduates with functional skills to adequately address the social and economic needs of the country, and the students cannot apply the acquired knowledge and skills when they join the labour market.
The findings also revealed that the current curriculum was also not aligned to the international curriculum and was not aligned to the emerging issues like digital literacy, climate change, sustainable development goals, globalisation and global epidemics.
It is against the above background that the Ministry of Education, through the NCDC, wants to change the A-Level curriculum so that when students undertaking the new lower secondary curriculum move to A-Level, they find a harmonised curriculum.
The new curriculum will, therefore, see a reduction and harmonisation of content across subjects to get rid of repetitions and obsolete content while integrating emerging issues.
ICT will also be integrated in all subjects as a tool for learning, and there will be an emphasis in practical, generic skills, values and attitudes across all subjects.
Pioneers
The pioneer students, who are undertaking the current lower secondary curriculum, are sitting for their UCE next year in 2023. This means these will join Senior Five in 2025.
Sr Gladys Kachope, the head teacher of Immaculate Hearts Girls Secondary School in Rukungiri District, said they are comfortable with the new curriculum, but called for enough time to prepare the teachers.
“We need enough preparations this time before it is rolled out to avoid the many challenges we had during the rolling out of the current lower secondary curriculum. The materials should be also be prepared on time,” she said yesterday.
Proposed subjects
Humanities
CRE
IRE
Geography
History & Political Education
Literature
Sciences
Mathematics
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Vocational
ICT
Art and Design
Technology and Design
Nutrition and Food Technology
Textile and Clothing Technology
Performing Arts
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Accounting
Agriculture
Physical Education
Languages
Local languages
Foreign languages
Kiswahili
Ugandan sign languages.
While the Archbishop talks about Shs 16bn yet to be paid, this money keeps on accummulating due to interest that accrues to the loan. Ugandans may lose interest in this project completely. If Church of Uganda has land whose value can settle the outstanding balance, it is best that all effort is made to see the land sold off and the loan cleared.
The genesis of the Church House, which apparently is officially known as St. Janan Luwum Church House, can be traced to the provincial assembly of 1966 which resolved to establish Church of Uganda House Company Ltd to solicit funds to embark on a mega building project.
A project which was conceived 57 years ago, to have such a liability, it does not give hope to the Church community, that against the background of so many assets which the Church had to part with to realize the amount that Equity Bank needed to provide finance to its completion.
What the Archbishop and other leaders in Church of Uganda need to do is to get the problem to the President and clearly explain the delimma such that if is the Government buying the land, the matter is sorted once for all. That way, Christians will have hope. Otherwise, shs 16bn will easily grow to a bigger figure and the Church community may simply resign paying money into what looks to have been a bad project.
Archbishop Janani Luwum was murdered in 1977 when I was a student of Secondary Four at St. Mary’s College, Kisubi. As a member of Church of Uganda, I realized that none of us was safe given Idi Amin’s terror.
Janani Luwum is a real martyr of our time whom we are proud of. Our Religious leaders are challenged more so when some of them are unable to address the Human Rights abuses that are rampant today in Uganda. Some of our Religious leaders are corrupt and don’t see it abnormal to be in bed with political leaders who abuse the Rights of Ugandans.
3rd MAY 2022 MADE A YEAR SINCE I WORKED ON THE BLOG TO HELP RAISE FUNDS TO SAVE “JANAN LUWUM CHURCH HOUSE” FROM BEING AUCTIONED.
What is unfortunate is that I may never know how much my effort brought into Uganda to save Janani Luwum Church House.
I thank God for His having enabled me to work on a blog as well as initiated the letter below which I circulated to various email addresses mostly so outside Uganda. The email addresses were not less than 500 in number I imagine.
The Letter:
“SAVE JANAN LUWUM CHURCH HOUSE”
WE COUNT ON YOU.
Greetings from Uganda.
There is an investment the Church of Uganda (Anglican) put in place to serve as an earning asset in the Centre of Kampala City the Capital of Uganda. The asset which is 16 floors is called: Janan Luwum Church House. This asset is in danger of being auctioned due to the loan of US$10m and Ushs 5bn that helped in its construction this still has a substantial outstanding of the equivalent of US $13,521,127.
We kindly appeal to you to help support this fundraising initiative to save this magnificent asset for the Church of Uganda.
The significance of “Janan Luwum Church House”:
Janan Luwum Church House is:
1. A symbol of Church of Uganda, an asset the Church is really proud of.
2. An asset expected to generate money that will help in the running of some of the Church of Uganda undertakings, and is expected to generate resources that will help support pension for the retired Church Ministers.
3. Named after the former Archbishop Janan Luwum who was martyred on the orders of President Idi Amin, hence has a lot of significance regarding the evolution of the Church of Uganda and the challenges along the journey.
4. It is a national treasure which all Ugandans are proud of.
How you can go support the save mission for “Janan Luwum Church House”:
THE ACCOUNT NAME WHERE FUNDS ARE TO BE DEPOSITED:
“CHURCH HOUSE LOVE GIFT”.
SWIFT CODE FOR EQUITY BANK UGANDA - EQBLUGKAXXX
ACCOUNT NUMBERS IN EQUITY BANK UGANDA:
1. 1039201817619 (Uganda Shillings).
2. 1039201817637 (US Dollars).
The Church of Uganda contact person:
Reverend Canon Captain William Ongeng
Provincial Secretary
Church of Uganda
Email: williamongeng@gmail.com
WhatsApp - +256772351056
Kindly share this appeal to your friends, and or any persons / organizations that may give a hand to save this infrastructure that is meant to help in generating resources to further spread the Word of God by the Church of Uganda.
2 Corinthians 9: 6 - 7
“The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he decides in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver”.
I thank you.
William Kituuka Kiwanuka.
Volunteer:
“Save Janan Luwum Church House”.
