Officials from Ministry of Health and other Development partners were in Mayuge today to check and assess the progress of training Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWS) This team of officers was led by Dr. Mwebesa Henry, the Director General of health services.
The CHEWS Training that commenced on 2nd May is held at Seaville Hotel in Mayuge Town council where there 168 participants from the 84 parishes of the District with Two chews from each parish.
Mayuge District in partnership with Swisscontact is implementing a 4 year project aimed at promoting food security among cocoa farmers across five selected sub counties of Kityerera, Bukaboli Bukatube, Imanyiro and Buwaya. The project was designed and set to achieve its objectives through; awareness creation, building of partnership linkages, increasing access to recommended/ improved planting materials for key food security crops such as Banana and sweet potatoes, as well as provision of training and advisory services.
A Campaign to End Teenage Pregnancy is taking place today at the District grounds which has been organised by HEROES an NGO based in Mayuge District.
Currently the NGO operates in the Sub counties of Bukabooli, Bukatube, Wairasa and Imanyiro but there’s a possibility of covering the other remaining Sub counties.
This campaign is intended to end teenage pregnancy and child marriageswhich is high in the District at a rate of 27%
This campaign will run for the next 12 months.
Life water international is launching project 3 activity program at kityerera sub county headquarters.
Following its commitment to a District wide WASH coverage and the continuing need, life water is launching its 3rd project targeting 4 parishes, 5 primary schools and 2 health centers in Kityerera sub county with an estimated population of 18,786. This project is to be implemented for the next 3 years.
The Mayuge WASH Project 3 is expected to achieve the following first level outcomes, which will be measured weekly , monthly, quarterly and Bi annually monitoring:
Worldvision Uganda-Mayuge field office today organized a community summit in Busakira at the sub county headquarters.
The purpose of this summit was to select technical projects that will be implemented in Busakira starting October 2022, share child wellbeing priorities and vision with the wider community and finally share findings from data collected from the communities in Busakira using the problem tree analysis by the starter groups
There’s an ongoing National oil palm project stakeholders workshop taking place in the District council hall. The meeting was opened by Hon. Mere Egulwa- secretary for production who represented the District chairperson.
The workshop is aimed to gain an up-to-date understanding of oil palm activity progress in the District including opportunities and challenges facing oil palm actors regarding compliance with sustainability principles, as well as important issues relating to sustainable palm oil trading.
The joint monitoring of Bukabooli and Bukatube piped water systems by Worldvision, NWSC and the District Team took place today to provide an update to stakeholders on the progress of the piped water system and find a way forward to addressing the emerging issues.
Today the District Engineer , Wanjusi Febiano was in Malongo sub county to inspect the on going works of Rehabilitation on the 16km Bumwena-Namoni road which is done by District road rehabilitation unit - Jinja station .
Grading, compacting swamp raising and replacement of culverts is being done systematically.
The Chief Administrative Officer, Mr . Lukwago Anthony has met with community health extension workers (CHEWS) trainees , together with the Trainers from the Ministry of Health at SeavilleResort -Mayuge ,who are in a Health training which will be lasting for six months. It should be noted however , that the trainees are now in their second month of training bearing in mind that the last two months of their training period will be for field work.
Quarterly district coordination and networking meeting with partners in development (NGOs) discussing the progress of their work. This meeting is taking place at Betty’s Guest house- Mayuge . The implementing partners present include; Worldvision uganda, Habitat for humanity, MUCOBADI, Tujje Ministries, Life water international, UDHA, Lively minds, ODUR foundation, community concerns uganda initiative, Heroes for gender transformation program, Ray of choice Africa, SOS, ICYD, SIU among others.
