TO MOM DIANE, SHIRL AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS
HERE IS A BRIEF INTRODUCTION ABOUT UGANDA AND THEN THEN OUR PROPOSED PROJECT OR PROJECTS.
Uganda is my African home, my great motherland. She has been reffered to as the Pearl of Africa by the former British Premier Sir Winston Churchill. Uganda is a home of history in this meaning it has a rich cultural heritage. It is a home of farming and agriculture. It has a good climate and rich in natural resources.
I have created this Dairy to feature Forums, Debates and Articles concerning the social, economic and political life of Uganda. You are all welcome to Partipate.
Pastor Lincoln Joel Nsubuga
My proposed Final projects to Mom Diane,Shirl and Friends.
To Mom Diane and friends, I am so happy to have found the great community I had never heard about before, but through Mom Diane I have come to realise that meeting other people and sharing ideas with others can really help fulfill a pre-determined objective thus achieving the pre-determined goals.
Mom Diane and friends I want to share this final project proposals with you. I feel that I can carry out one or both of them with the help of the youth and women here because I have so far mobilised them and I have them at hand.
The two projects include;
Secretarial bureau with a salon/barber shop this employs both the services of the qualified and those who are not qualified.
The rent of the building ranges from 400,000/= a month which I believe we can make more than that money within a month itself.
For the equipments to use in the salon since there are so many in the developed world, you can send them directly to us.
These include; Photocopier machines can be 3, 5 computers can help us in the start, 2-scanners can help us in the start, 3-printers can help us also in the start. Then the salon equipments including the barber shop tools. Thats for the project above.
I do believe that when you come together as one you can help us get these things and start this project. I promise you that this project or projects will benefit many.
Secondly the project of poultry keeping this is attached with piggery keeping.
It involves the construction of the pigs houses which can be 2 of them for a start. We can start with 30 to 50 pigs, including a veterinary officer/doctor. The feeds for the pigs we can get them in the villages where by the depend mostly on plant materials etc. At the start this can be like a voluntary work and we get paid after getting the salaries and wages and also support other programmes like fees for the children, provide food and clothes etc.
The piggery keeping is attached to poultry keeping in both layers and broilers where by we shall need 200 broilers and 200 layers for a start.
With your help Mom Diane and your friends, we can fulfill this and brighten the lives of many in our community. I am therefore calling upon you to share ideas with others about this. Its me, the women and the children who are going to make Uganda an important place to live in and also a great motherland where by one day Mom Diane, Shirl and all other friends will come and enjoy the beauty of Uganda and also see for yourselves what the support you send has done.
God bless you all.
I love you all and I pray for you and your families.
May the Booman Tribune Community live forever.
for coming to BooMan Tribune. I am looking forward to learning more about Uganda.
Janet thanks for the comment.
Hi Lincoln. You might be our first African member. Welcome.
Sirocco did a recent diary on Uganda.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/5/11/141712/278
I wonder what you think of it.
I cannot add anything on Sirocco’s story.
really great.
will get the hang of those one-party elections yet! ;/
x yes
I nearly choaked on my orange juice when I read your comment this morning, lol, lol.
I think we already have the hang of it!!!!!
I’m looking forward to any information about Uganda you can give. 🙂
Pax Thanks so much first of all to appreciate my joining this wonderful community as I always call it. I have read your comment and love it. So let me go straight to the answers of the questions you have asked;
To me, Betty Bigombe is a freedom fighter and a hero. I have known Betty Bigombe since 1986 when she was elected as woman leader in charge of the Northern region of Uganda. Betty Bigombe has tried and still tries to end the war in the Northern region by reconciling the government with the LRA, Rebels and the chief Joseph Kony. Though nothing has been reached to yet but atleast some of the rebels leaders are surrendering ever since the talks started and the chairmanship of Betty Bigombe.
The Polls according to me concerning the return of Obote to what I have heard from me people here; the majority say that Oboto should not come back because of the many attrocities he caused during his reign as a Ugandan president. Obote is believed to be the cause of King Edward Muteesa’s death in London. Obote is killed many Bagandas where I also come from. Baganda belong to the Buganda Kingdom. Obote one said that “A good Muganda is only a dead one.”
I did not see Museveni’s recent union address but I do understand that he was trying to introduce major reforms in the administration, reconciliation between the members of parliament regardless of their political systems but rather to fight for peace, freedom, stability and unity in the country since we are heading to the elections in March.
My opinion to the constitutional reforms is positive. I support the move to the reformation of the consitution.
I have never been to Acholi according to how insecure that place is, I cannot risk my life but I feel sad and cry sometimes seeing my brothers and sisters die like that because of the war which has failed to come to an end. The people are totally suffering so much, no food, clothes, recently a church in Australia gave support to one of the orphanages in Gulu which accomodates over to 700 orphans. I do thank God that the war is almost coming to an end because some rebel leaders are surrendering to the government.
Pax ask more questions I will answer them.
First, PastorLincoln, I’m happy to see you writing a Diary here. Diane’s introduction to you was very moving.
Second, I love that poll! 🙂
Third, let me pick your brain about Uganda. Can you tell me what you think of Betty Bigombe? And what about the recent Monitor poll showing support for the return of Milton Obote? And did you see Museveni’s recent State of the Union address, particularly where he said he was willing to give amnesty to Joseph Kony?
And of course I’ve got to ask your opinion on the Constitutional reforms Museveni’s been pushing…
And have you ever been to the north (Acholiland)? I’ve read so much about the IDP camps there but if you’ve seen them I’d love to hear your impressions and opinion.
Welcome to this site!
Pax
Pax Thanks so much first of all to appreciate my joining this wonderful community as I always call it. I have read your comment and love it. So let me go straight to the answers of the questions you have asked;
To me, Betty Bigombe is a freedom fighter and a hero. I have known Betty Bigombe since 1986 when she was elected as woman leader in charge of the Northern region of Uganda. Betty Bigombe has tried and still tries to end the war in the Northern region by reconciling the government with the LRA, Rebels and the chief Joseph Kony. Though nothing has been reached to yet but atleast some of the rebels leaders are surrendering ever since the talks started and the chairmanship of Betty Bigombe.
The Polls according to me concerning the return of Obote to what I have heard from me people here; the majority say that Oboto should not come back because of the many attrocities he caused during his reign as a Ugandan president. Obote is believed to be the cause of King Edward Muteesa’s death in London. Obote is killed many Bagandas where I also come from. Baganda belong to the Buganda Kingdom. Obote one said that “A good Muganda is only a dead one.”
I did not see Museveni’s recent union address but I do understand that he was trying to introduce major reforms in the administration, reconciliation between the members of parliament regardless of their political systems but rather to fight for peace, freedom, stability and unity in the country since we are heading to the elections in March.
My opinion to the constitutional reforms is positive. I support the move to the reformation of the consitution.
I have never been to Acholi according to how insecure that place is, I cannot risk my life but I feel sad and cry sometimes seeing my brothers and sisters die like that because of the war which has failed to come to an end. The people are totally suffering so much, no food, clothes, recently a church in Australia gave support to one of the orphanages in Gulu which accomodates over to 700 orphans. I do thank God that the war is almost coming to an end because some rebel leaders are surrendering to the government.
Pax ask more questions I will answer them.
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by diane101 ◊ Mon Jun 6th, 2005
I would like to introduce to you my friend PastorLincoln, native of Uganda, living in Kampala. Oddly enough I first received a email from Lincoln the day after I received my first email from ‘Diva’. He had seen my name on the penpal site and wrote to see if I would be his email pal.
That was in November of 2004 and since that time we have exchanged many emails and pictures and became friends.. After a short time he started to call me his American Mom Diane and I called him my African Son Lincoln. So in some ways I received into my family two new members in the same week.
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Little daughter of Lincoln
Need I say more? A MUST READ!
WELCOME: Make Yourself Known @BooTrib aka lost treasure of dKos
That has got to be be the most precious baby!
Lincoln, it would be nice if you would write about what life is like in Uganda for you and your family. Write about the history of your family that you have told me. People here would like to know some of those things and are you still going to do a diary on the women of Uganda as we spoke of earlier this week, that would be very interesting for all of us.
Please tell us more of what Uganda means to you…
I second this. I would love to hear about Lincoln’s life in – is it typical of most families in Uganda?
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Good Morning Diane – how is the weather in beautiful California?
That was an early breakfast – it seemed such a short night.
Zander did a terrific job on the Welcome Wagon thread meeting all the newbies 24/7 – do you believe it? During this period nearly 100 comments again.
WELCOME: Make Yourself Known @BooTrib aka lost treasure of dKos
Hi Oui and thanks for the orange juice, I will try to manifest it shortly. I am just in a state of awe right now at my friend Lincoln, 6 months ago I would never have dreamed he would come on this forum and participate like this. Even 1 week ago I would not have dreamed it. Isn’t this just so interesting having a resident of a country that we frequently discuss right here to answer our questions and tell us about it.
Oui, I too am elated by all the welcome diaries, I think if might be nice if you hosted the next one (anytime you are ready), and then we can start passing this around, ManEgree, Shirl, maybe a sign up list, what do you think. etc.
Seems like this is going to be too big for little old me to keep up with.
If you do choose to do a sign up list, go ahead and my name to it. just let me know when i should jump in 😉
I just woke up, so forgive me for not noticing that there was an email waiting for me from Lincoln, with a whole diary on Women of Uganda, and I have just emailed him to put it up as a diary.
Gosh Lincoln I am amazed and astonished at how fast you are picking this whole thing up, I know that you never saw anything like (Booman Tribune) it until a week ago.
Bootribe folks, wait till you see what Lincoln wrote, it’s great.
Lincoln I am just so proud of you for everything you are doing with your life right now.
As far as my life is concerned Mom Diane, I have passed through many trials and hardships. My experience has not been so good. Ever since my mother retired I could hardly receive anything. Leaving that aside now its 10 years gone still no big change that without education I failed to get a job which can pay me money and start developing myself. Its so shameful that I Pastor Lincoln Joel Nsubuga I cannot stand and talk as man because I don’t even things a low man should be having in his room. If it could be possible for one of you to come and visit me in Uganda, I will show you each and everything. Now with my daughter Angella and a son Daniel life becomes more had sustaining them every month. I can never buy anything new for myself. I have run out of clothes, shoes, bedsheets, blanket. When I walk on the street it can be hard for anyone to recognise the kind of life am living. I do believe that its because of my lack of complete education that am suffering. Our church is not yet well established financially may be we would get some support from the church thus the reason why we want to start the projects to help the community, church and and our families. These project will focus on women, the youth, children, widows and orphans. They will equip us with skills and knowledge and also empower us to move on with this life.
I get 80,000/= a month where by 40,000/= go the kids and the rest for transport everyday.
I use 1000/= for transport to and fro everyday and Lunch 1500/= from 10:00am in the morning East African Standard time to 8:00pm in the Evening everyday up to Saturday. 80,000/= is equal to $50 now as I talk because the Dollars goes up and down. $1 US is equal to 1725/= Uganda shillings.
I have a sister and brother who are at home without fees recently a sister who was doing a course in Home-economics came back home because of school and imagine she is left with only one month to finish. I had no solution for that but to keep praying to God because there is no way we can get the money in the shortest time possible.
There is a lot to write about myself and others but time limits me.
May God bless you all in this community. I love you in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Change the title to Uganda Citizen, about my country or something along those lines so others will know this is a diary from an actual citizen there so that makes it even more interesting to go and read this diary.
Uganda, my Homeland, another possibility.
I clicked on this diary just because I am always ready to learn more about the social, economic, and political life of any country and especially a country in Africa. Now I am so eager to learn more about Uganda–and about you and your family and your life, Lincoln–and to read the diary on Women of Uganda.
Lincoln, I am happy to meet you here at the Booman Tribune, and I will look for chances to get to know you better. I liked your poll, and (guess what) I voted yes.
I have never been to Uganda, but it sounds as if I should go there. I’ve been to Ethiopia and Kenya (and Morocco and Egypt).
Sirocco, I was stunned and horrified by the story you told, the story people need to know and most of us don’t, about the children who are being kidnapped and all the brutality. Thanks for all that it took for you to tell that story. I should read those other unreported stories, too.
Diane, thanks for everything you’re doing to make the connections here, and thanks for introducing us to Lincoln. I can tell that you are a real bridge builder and people connector, and that you have a beautiful heart.
Maureen, thank for your kind words. You might also be interested in my Iraqi friends diary, about a young women (Diva, her screen name) living in baghdad, who is the one I met the same week I met Lincoln, from the same penpal web site.
Any way on my info page you can find the diaries on Diva and she also has a web page, which is linked there.
My thing is I want to get knowledge from those who have lived it and live in it, so much of saying what they think, and not enough of asking what do you think. Big difference between they and you. That applies in a lot of subjects.
I would really like to have more friends in other countries but I am having a hard time keeping up with the ones I have now, so it really isn’t fair to take on more than one can handle. I do wish others would try reaching out to penpals around the world and connecting up first hand.
Anyone interested can google Jolly Rogers pen pal site for starters, there are many sites.
My idea is that if we build individual bridges all around the world, what would the world then be like. If we all had a personal connect with someone in Iraq, would we have gone to war. Or so it could apply to any other country, anywhere in the world.
Do Ugandans read Giles Foden’s novel The Last King of Scotland (which, despite its title, is about Uganda).
I thought it was a quite brilliant portrait of political cowardice (on the part of its Scots narrator), but I can’t claim to know Uganda well.