Background to the program
In an effort to revamp our community, Center for Community Transformation Uganda,started a program - Bulungi Bwansi ( self help ) program to to support the commuity to be able to realise the interventions being made by the Uganda government both at the central level an local government level, faith based organizations, NGOs private firms and individuals, for the specific good of indicduals in the community and for collective good of communities .
The overall goal is of the program is to ensure that individual community members practically realise wealth in their homes and and also to ensure that as communities they appreciate development in their areas.
What Bulungi bwansi program entails
This program combines and invloves mobilising the community to do all sorts of activities on a voluntary basis ( at no pay) to support the common good of society in all sectors of the community life. In works (roads) and water sector self help activities include but not limited to clearing /rebuilding of water sources such as shallow wells, digging and clearing off the grass, filling of soil into into potholes gullies found on community roads which make them impassable, putting on off-shoots, installing concrete culverts on constructed or existing community access roads, creating new access roads to ease community members movement, constructing / rehabilitating shallow wells, drilling bore holes and repair boreholeof including installing protection around them,
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| Community members trying to create a drainage for water Zigoto swamp |
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| Mr Tumusiime and another resident uprooting the strong papyrus roots to avoid repeated growth |
In health and sanitation some of the activities include ensuring that house holds have toilet facilities, they store water in clean containers or jericans and drink cooked water, ensuring that they live a tidy environment as well as being tidy themselves, eating well and eating good food to have a health body and mind, managing domestic waste, clearing of the upcoming towns off with gabbage and unwanted materials, teaching the house how to manage domestic gabage/waste, ,providing health units or centers with health requirements /needs that are critical in health services provision to the community, assisting the elderly, ovcs, widows in the community to access basic medical care.
In agriculture, some of activities include ensuring that homes/ families have well looked after gardens - good looking and promising from an agricultural point of view, good looking /healthy domestic animals able to support the recurrent financial needs of the family/house holds from a veterinary point of view
Security, under here working with police, courts and prisons, churches and leaders , voluntary activities include decampaigning all forms of social evil such as thefty or stealing habits, domestic violence, redundancy among youth and community members, taking marijuana by portraying their negative effects on society, families and to an individual person
Education, the activities we do under here are aimed at having students learning non academic but critical aspects of life. We speak to them about real life, we provide to less previllledlged school s water tanks and or build underground tanks harvest water from school roofs, construction of class rooms, toilets, provide scholarships to students and any education related service
If you feel interested feel free participate and or support any of projects in the Bulungi Bwansi (self help) program, or even to participate in any of them please contact
Emmanuel Zirabamuzaale
Executive Director- Center for Community Transformation Uganda
P.o.Box 18 Mubende - Uganda
Tel:+256 702 369 644 (WhatsApp), 256 782 400 523
