Dear Caleb,
Thanks for everything you and fellow West Nilers are doing to bring about transformation among our West Nile Community. I just wanted to bring to your attention in particular and that of our members of the net in general that on Saturday April 17, 2010 at 14:30 Hours, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus, my name was also added onto the list of the academia on this globe after graduating with a PhD majoring in agricultural education. Permit me, Your Excellency Mr. President of our Foundation, to thank every body, who in one way or the other made it possible for me to reach that level. I particularly want to thank Engineer Patrick Okuni for inspiring me. Concerning efforts towards rural community literacy, my teams of URLCODA volunteers are neiher resting nor sleeping. You may recall that during the 2010 community health literacy week in Kamuli, our medical volunteers treated 2,045 people for various ailments, counseled and tested 356 people for HIV/AIDS, immunized over 300 children etc. Our network of rural community libraries has expanded from one in Lokotoro village to 10 namely: St. Joseph’s college Ombaci Community library, Ewadri Primary School Community Library, Endru Primary School Community Library, Mingoro Primary School Community Library, Ombaderuko Primary School Community Library, Otravu Primary School Community Library, Oguvu Primary School Community Library, SIDA Community Library in Bileafe Sub-County attached to Tuku Priamry School, Queen of Heaven Communinity Library attached to St. Daniel’s Primary School in Yumbe and Kasozi Primary School Community Library in Kamuli district. I have registered all these satellite community libraries with Uganda Community Libraries Association (UgCLA) and we have entered a good number of them in competition for grants and books in kind under UgCLA which I am reliably informed a few have won. We are now completing a project funded by a charity agency from the US to renovate and equip the main community library with solar power so that our rural kinds can play with computers and take our clay key board technology to another level. This library will officially be opened by Prof. Kate Parry in June this year. Finally, I and other volunteers in conjunction with St. Joseph’s College Ombaci Community Library have embarked on an effort to finish and produce 68,800 copies of the booklet we have been producing/writing with the elders on “Proverbs and unfamiliar sayings in Lugbara” so that at least each primary school in Arua district including the above satellite community libraries shall get 200 copies to support the implementation of thematic curriculum in our primary schools in which the medium of instruction is Lugbara. As usual, I am aware that we URLCODA volunteers have no funds, but we have not run short of the zeal to make a humble contribution towards enhancing reading and writing skills of not only our children but also the adults in our rural areas who produced and sent us to the universities we have been to. Lastly, I have been in serious discussions with Masindi district Local Government officials who are requesting me to bring the 3rd National Intergenerational Literacy Conference to their district which we have now agreed and I would like to bring this to the attention of all those interested that January 2011 conference will see our rural people gathering in Masindi district to discuss issues of environment, agriculture/natural resources management, child labour, etc. We shall determine the real theme after a meeting with the entire district council which will take place very soon. Thank you very much and God bless you all. Willy
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