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Actionaid Hands Over Greek River Primary School to Government 3 5 8 6 Hours Late and When Elected Leaders Betray the The Giriki 11 Hours behind Electorate: A citizen conversation Community Schedule! BUT WHY? with an MP in a strange place! Communique NewsUganda Special Edition Newsletter Issue May 2012 Stories and Voices of Hope from Giriki Editorial: ActionAid Hands over Greek River Trials and Primary School to Government Triumphs By Henry Nickson Ogwal, Director Partnership Funding and Sponsorship - ActionAid International Uganda This Special Edition - ‘Focus on Giriki’ tells of \ ActionAid Photo: Stephen Wandera a remarkable story of the people of Giriki faced with a multitude of socioeconomic challenges, but who courageously and with a smile on their faces, show unwavering commitment to trans- form their lives, one at a time. The Edition is inspired by a team reflection fol- lowing the Commissioning of the Greek River Primary School in Giriki Sub County, Kween District. The school was built with support from ActionAid International Uganda (AAIU) and subsequently handed over to the Government in an event hosted by the Community at the School, some 400 Kilometers from Kampala in former Kapchorwa District on May 4th 2012, and attended by several guests including the Assistant Commissioner, Primary Education who represented the Minister of Education and Sports. This Newsletter captures stories and voices of ActionAid Uganda hands over Greek River Primary School hope from Giriki and represents the triumph to Assistant Commissioner C.Tony Mukasa-Lusambu over the trails of the people in Giriki. It dem- onstrates the workings of ActionAid’s Human On the 4th May 2012, Mr. C.Tony Mukasa – leaders, sub-county and district leaders, the Rights Based Approach guided by the twin Lusambu, who represented the Minister of Edu- area MP and the Women MP for Kween. logic of transforming the condition and position cation and Sports (MoES) Honourable Jessica of poor girls, boys, women and men. Alupo as the Guest of Honour, commissioned In his address, Mr. Mukasa-Lusambu thanked ActionAid for supporting Government in fulfill- We would also like to take this opportunity to Greek Primary School. Out of 763 pupils en- ing its mandate to provide quality education by most sincerely extent our hearty appreciation rolled, 45 % of the pupils are girls. The function constructing a school in such a hard-to-reach of the Girik Community and those of ActionAid took place in Giriki village, Ngenge sub-county, area where formerly displaced children needed International Uganda with the White Fields; and Kween District. During the same function, to access education services. He was highly Richard, Sarah and Sam Skelt’s family from ActionAid International Uganda (AAIU) handed impressed by the school feeding project that the UK whose generous financial contributions over to Government the school project worth he requested ActionAid to document and share made it possible to complete the school proj- UGX 540 million. The school project comprised with the MoES to inform policy discussions. He ects at Greek River. We are doing everything of an eight classrooms block furnished with advised the school administration to plant trees to ensure that we continue to work with other 144 three-seater-desks, 16 office chairs and 12 to secure the buildings, beautiful flowers to at- players so that the important foundation we working tables; three blocks of VIP pit latrines tract the children to school and develop good have set leads to the ultimate goal for which the with 14 stances for teachers, boys and girls; a roads. He encouraged the school to develop project was initiated. This was the message we block of teachers’ house fitted with solar pan- a talking compound by printing and installing passed to all stakeholders at the commission- els; a block of store and kitchen constructed messages on the compounds. ing of the school as part of the sustainability with wood-fuel savings stoves; 5 industrial size commitment that we all need to make. sauce-pans for cooking; and a 20 horsepower diesel-engine grain-mill and mill-house. Action- While Mr. Mukasa-Lusambu received commu- nity demands directed to Ministry of Education Welcome and be inspired as you read the sto- Aid also handed over a 20 hectares school farm and Sports written by the women of Giriki, and ries! planted with corn and soya beans. In order to address the risk from lightening in the relatively read by Cherukut Miriam, Programme Coor- By Henry Nickson Ogwal, Director Partnership flat Greater Ngenge terrain, two lightening ar- dinator of Kapchorwa Civil Society Organisa- Funding and Sponsorship - ActionAid International restors were fitted onto the classroom block. tions’ Alliance (KACSOA) to which he promised Uganda The function was attended by children, women to ably share with the top management of the and men from Giriki community, community Ministry, he cited a few challenges taking the 2 Uganda Special Edition Issue, May 2012 ... ActionAid Hands over Background to Giriki Greek River Primary Community and ActionAid’s School to Government Interventions: A Snap Shot By Aggrey Kibet, Programme Coordinator – Kapchorwa Local Rights Programme demands forward. He noted that Ministry of Giriki Community is an indigenous people Key Issues affecting Giriki and Finance, Planning and Economic Development located in Griki sub-county in the Northern surrounding areas (MoPED) had ordered for suspension of coding enclave of Kween District sandwiched between There is breakdown of basic educational infra- new schools until the financial year 2014/2015 Amudat District, Bukwo District in Uganda and structures with sub-counties like Giriki having due to lack of funding. He advised the District West Pokot District of Kenya. It is estimated that no secondary or technical school. This is deny- Education Officer of Kween and Greek River the total population is about 7,000 today. The ing the children of Giriki their right to access Primary School Administration to search for community is characterised of people formerly education. old record for the school that existed in the displaced by cattle rustling and related armed area before the community was displaced. In conflict within Uganda and to Kenya in the last There is the problem of land grabbing by un- that case, it would be much easier to code the 40 years. scrupulous individuals mainly those with money school for grant aiding using the old record. He and influence migrating from other areas and concluded that because he had shared in the From 1950s to 2006, Kapchorwa, Bukwo and want to take advantage of the vacuum created pain of the Giriki community by walking about Kween Districts in located in Eastern Uganda by the long absence of genuine displaced own- four kilometres as a result of bad road, he will (Giriki inclusive) were faced by the phenom- ers to different locations of the country to take be a good ambassador of Giriki in the Ministry. ena of cattle and other livestock rustling by the over their land. This dispossession of land is a Pokot and Karamojong warriors. This resulted blatant violation of rights to property and liveli- Kween Woman MP Hon. Lydia Barteka was into loss of lives and property (livestock) and in- hoods of Giriki community. pleased to inform the gathering that ActionAid ternal displacement to the highland areas within assessment was right. This resulted in imple- Kapchorwa District and to other neighbouring There is frequent flooding of the relatively flat mentation of initiatives that have had positive districts. It is estimated that by 2007; 34,523 belt during rainy season affecting agriculture, impact on the people thus encouraged return, people became displaced, 1,639 were killed settlement and access to markets because of resettlement and reconciliation of the Giriki and 700,000 heads of cattle, and 500,000 goats destruction onto the roads. This is compounded community. Kween area MP Hon. Kisos Che- and sheep were rustled across the Greater further by already poor roads and bridges maswet shared the importance of the citizens Ngenge lower belt which is the present Ngenge which worsen the accessibility of the farmers of demanding for accountability from Government. and Giriki sub-counties (Ngenge Community Greater Ngenge to support from government as He promised to donate 1,000 seedlings to the Development, 2007). a semi arid sub-region. Therefore, glaring gaps school. in service delivery, infrastructure and access In 2006, the Government of Uganda initiated a to justice include access to extension services, Earlier on, the Acting District Chairperson Mr. forceful disarmament program through which a large scale irrigation, climate adaptation mea- Paul Majinjach in his remarks underscored number of warriors and rustlers were disarmed. sures and markets for improved livelihoods. ActionAid as a transparent organisation worthy Coupled with other peace and conflict resolu- of emulation. He said it is because of this value tion efforts by other stake holders within Ugan- ActionAid’s Interventions that the local people and the leaders have co- da and the Republic of Kenya, the disarmament z ActionAid Uganda supported 165 most vul- operated and worked with ActionAid during the marked the end of cattle rustling and the return nerable households out of the original 2,000 time of active armed conflicts and resettlement. to peace which has encouraged the displaced households in Giriki with building materials persons to return to their former places. – providing a strong attraction for displaced The country Director of ActionAid International persons to return and resettle; Uganda, Arthur Larok, noted that he was happy In March 2007, ActionAid Uganda undertook with leadership in ActionAid that hands over ev- an assessment of the situation in the returnees’ z Supported health infrastructural devel- ery good work for others to complete. He cited areas of Greater Ngenge that was still part of opment through the provision of a fully the projects in Giriki were initiated by Charles Kapchorwa District but presently in the newly equipped Giriki Health Unit complete with a Mbeeta Businge who handed over to him a created Kween District focusing on the three winged staff house and a bore hole reach- couple of months ago.
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