{"id":6132,"date":"2022-07-03T16:56:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2022-07-03T16:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T16:56:33","slug":"i-am-no-longer-the-woman-who-lives-in-a-mud-and-wattle-collapsing-house-kalagi-resident-as-she-receives-house-from-habitat-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/i-am-no-longer-the-woman-who-lives-in-a-mud-and-wattle-collapsing-house-kalagi-resident-as-she-receives-house-from-habitat-for-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"I am no longer the woman who lives in a mud and wattle collapsing house \u2013 Kalagi resident as she receives house from Habitat for Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Gloria Kembabazi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evelyn Birabwa Nakyazze of Kasaala village near Kalagi trading centre in Mukono District was always worried about the well-being of her three biological children and the another two she caters for. The house in which they lived was about to fall on them. Nakyazze\u2019s husband is feared to have drowned on Lake Victoria. His whereabouts are unknown for years. As a peasant farmer on rented land, efforts to provide decent housing for herself and the children seemed like a long dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy nickname was the \u2018woman who sleeps in a small mud and wattle house that is about to collapse on her,\u201d Nakyazze recalls. \u201cBut here I am today living in a house I didn\u2019t even imagine would one day be mine,\u201d she adds, pointing at a brand new house she has just received from Habitat for Humanity Uganda during the handover ceremony. The house was built in partnership with Housing Finance Bank and Buganda Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Owekitiibwa Mariam Mayanja Nkalubo, the Buganda Kingdom Lands, Agriculture, Environment, and Bulungibwansi Minister and Michael Mugabi, the CEO of Housing Finance Bank attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Otim, the National Director of Habitat for Humanity Uganda thanked the Kasala community for their support to Nakyazze and her children. \u201cThe community here built the toilet for Nakyazze and her children and have been supportive throughout the construction phases,\u201d Otim said in a speech read for him by Brendah Luyiga, Habitat for Humanity Uganda\u2019s communication and advocacy specialist. Nakyazze also got a 3,000-litre tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buganda Minister Hajjati Mariam Mayanja Nkalubo and Michael Mugabi, the CEO of Housing Finance Bank plating a tree at Nakyazze’s new Habitat home <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Otim thanked Housing Finance Bank and Buganda Kingdom for their contribution to the decent living campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe decent living campaign started from scratch but with support of the Kingdom of Buganda, and partners like Housing Finance Bank, Habitat for Humanity is marking greater strides together. To date Habitat for Humanity has raised over Shs300m giving about 15 families a decent place to call home,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This October, Habitat for Humanity will be marking 40 years of existence in Uganda. Since their inception in 1982, they have built, improved and rehabilitated over 40,000 houses -transforming lives of over 240,000 vulnerable families in Uganda and contributing to a 1.67% reduction to the housing deficit of 2.4 million units in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe request partners such as Housing Finance bank, with the Zimba Mpola housing product, to continue supporting us so that we can provide more decent houses to people who deserve them,\u201d Otim added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owek Nkalubo thanked Habitat for Humanity Uganda for their dedication to uplifting people\u2019s lives. \u201cIt is with partners like Habitat for Humanity that we can solve some of the housing challenges of our people. We are glad to be partnering with them to help our people live decently,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his part, Michael Mugabi said that as the leading housing financing bank, they are dedicated to improving lives through decent housing. \u201cWe feel honored to support Habitat for Humanity to improve people\u2019s lives,\u201d he said. \u201cI urge all corporate organisations to support Habitat for Humanity to build more houses as they celebrate their anniversary,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Gloria Kembabazi Evelyn Birabwa Nakyazze of Kasaala village near Kalagi trading centre in Mukono District was always worried about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-housing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kala.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12902,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/nabakooba-cautions-village-chairpersons-on-aiding-and-protecting-land-grabbers\/","url_meta":{"origin":6132,"position":0},"title":"Nabakooba \u00a0Cautions Village Chairpersons On Aiding And Protecting \u00a0Land Grabbers","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"September 30, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"By Our Reporters In Kakiri The minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Judith Nabakooba has warned village chairpersons to desist from aiding the prevalent cases of land grabbing in their different communities. 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