social services - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Wed, 25 May 2016 12:59:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 MP lobbys for social services for Aringa https://www.weinformers.com/2016/05/25/mp-lobbys-for-social-services-for-aringa/ https://www.weinformers.com/2016/05/25/mp-lobbys-for-social-services-for-aringa/#respond Wed, 25 May 2016 07:42:26 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=45208 ARINGA SOUTH MP, Odria Alioni Yorke plans to aggressively embark on ensuring that social services like water, education and income generating activities are put in place to improve the live hood of Aringa people and Arua at large. Odria says that government has put in place livelyhood programs to help the youth and the women however […]

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]]> WaterARINGA SOUTH MP, Odria Alioni Yorke plans to aggressively embark on ensuring that social services like water, education and income generating activities are put in place to improve the live hood of Aringa people and Arua at large. Odria says that government has put in place livelyhood programs to help the youth and the women however they have not benefited a lot due to lack of skills to enable them to utilize the funds. He says that through his lobbying of various stakeholders in government he wants to ensure that at least technical schools to impart skill among the woman and the youth and the general public are put in place. He adds that he wants to put in place sensitization program on the issue of project writing.

Odria further says the people of his constituency have suffered for long time with luck of clean safe drinking water and he wants the challenge addressed.

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]]> https://www.weinformers.com/2016/05/25/mp-lobbys-for-social-services-for-aringa/feed/ 0 Uganda government starts paying poor elderly persons https://www.weinformers.com/2011/07/07/uganda-government-starts-paying-poor-elderly-persons/ https://www.weinformers.com/2011/07/07/uganda-government-starts-paying-poor-elderly-persons/#respond Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:13:27 +0000 http://www.weinformers.net/?p=13961 The ministry for gender, labor and Social Development is on Friday signing a memorandum of understanding with three districts in which it intends to implement a pilot program of paying poverty stricken elderly persons. The districts include Kiboga, Kyenjojo and Kaberamaido, although the program will roll out to other more eleven districts including Zombo, Amudat, […]

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]]> The ministry for gender, labor and Social Development is on Friday signing a memorandum of understanding with three districts in which it intends to implement a pilot program of paying poverty stricken elderly persons.

Sulaiman Madada

The districts include Kiboga, Kyenjojo and Kaberamaido, although the program will roll out to other more eleven districts including Zombo, Amudat, Nakapiripirit, Katakwi, Kole, Nebbi, Moroto, Napak, Apac, Kyankwanzi and Kyegegwa.

Addressing a press conference at media center, elderly and disability state minister Sulaiman Madada said that the reason for starting with these districts is because a recent study carried out indicated that these have got the top most elderly people who are in abject poverty.

Madada said that government is going to spend 40m pounds (about100 billion shillings) on this Vulnerable Families Support Grant which targets elderly persons, PWDs, orphans among others. Madada says each elderly person in the selected districts will get 22,000 shillings per month through MTN’s mobile money.

He said that the ministry is also going to spend 900 million shillings to build 134 permanent homes for elderly people in various districts after already spending 400 million shillings on building 60 such homes.

 

 

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