Dear Betty, Sorry I could not reply your message immediately, I had gone for meetings and I have just seen your message. Since I dont see anything to celebrate about on the women's day, I have some time to do my own things.
Cafe discussions are open for everybody and contributions from everybody is very crucial. So please tell whoever can come for these discussions to do so. We are all trying to contribute in small ways to the development of our community and everybody's contribution is very important. You are right on saying that not many groups are doing such and even those who do such do it very formally at particular times of their choice and therefore attendance is difficult by the community. For cafe, we follow people where they are gathered for their own things like drinking, prayers and we agree on them for the time.We do not have formal meetings where people are invited formally. I was in Lira recently for other official duties and women were demanding for information on cervical cancer and a Karimojong attended a cafe last week in Entebbe, I cannot express his excitment and happiness and he wanted to know when science cafe can reach Karamonja and he gave a very interesting testimony. Such are some of the indications that community is eager to learn but have no avenue for information and that is why we have the motivation for these discussions. 80% of the diseases killing people in Uganda are preventable but most people do not have information on how to do so and this results in over burdening of our health care systems. We therefore thing that such sharing can contribute positively to change of lives. Children are significantly affected by domestic violence, look at the newspapers of yesterday and today where a child was burnt by the father during a fight with the wife,and today a father in Arua burnt a girl for eating bean soup without permission and it is likely that the mother of this little is not at home.And we still remember late Ssebanga, his soul rest in peace who was badly tortured by the stepmother and the father wh eventually died of cancer resulting from such torture. such are so humiliating and traumatic. Children always attend the Arua cafes and we shall give time to air their views and it will be good if your colleagues are around. You can also refer them to the website www.sciencecafeuganda.orgfor more information. The webiste has been updated and we are now loading new information. You can also link them up with me, I will be there for the discussions and let me know if they need any other information Thanks Christine
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