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

Ann Grace Apio, a 64-year-old farmer, from Kadami sub county in Alukat village in Kumi district wondered how she could survive after her husband committed suicide leaving her with five children and an orphaned grandchild to fend for. With a house about to fall on her, she always had constant thoughts about doing exactly what her husband had done \u2014 commit suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then as fate would have it, she was approached by people who promised to at least build for her a house and enroll one of her sons into carpentry. She couldn\u2019t believe it. \u201cIt sounded too good to be true,\u201d she recalls with a broad smile. \u201cAlthough I believe in God, it only really sunk in when construction started,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apio is one of the beneficiaries who over the weekend received 60 new houses from Habitat for Humanity in Kumi and Mayuge districts in their efforts to provide decent living and fight household poverty in the communities. Each house comes with a pit latrine and a 3,000-litre water tank for rainfall harvesting. On average, a house costs Shs25 million, bringing an average total Habitat for Humanity has spent on housing alone on these houses to approximately Shs1.5 billion.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDecent housing is the cornerstone and a foundational key to other human rights such as access to clean and safe water, hygiene and sanitation among others,\u201d says Robert Otim, the National Director Habitat Uganda. \u201cA decent home provides good health and all these families that lacked adequate sanitation facilities and access to clean and safe water in their homes will now live better lives,\u201d explains Norah Matovu Muwanga, the organisation\u2019s board chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each beneficiary also had a member of each beneficiary household empowered with different vocational skills and start up kits, so that they can earn a living and be able to provide support to their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its establishment in Uganda in 1982, Habitat for Humanity have built, improved and rehabilitated over 40,000 houses thereby 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 Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we celebrate 40 years in Uganda this year, we are looking for partners to help us build another 40 houses in different parts of the country to help vulnerable families who are in dire need of decent houses,\u201d Otim revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mark its 40th<\/sup> anniversary, Habitat for Humanity will also host an affordable housing symposium in Kampala in October 2022 where issues key to affordable housing will be discussed. \u201cThe affordable housing symposium will become an annual event where we forge a way for seeing to it that more people who deserve a decent house get one,\u201d Otim added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Gloria Kembabazi Ann Grace Apio, a 64-year-old farmer, from Kadami sub county in Alukat village in Kumi district wondered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6376,"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":[201,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Kumi-House-beneficiary2-.jpeg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11234,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/ugandas-woman-veteran-politician-cecilia-ogwal-dead-at-77\/","url_meta":{"origin":6375,"position":0},"title":"Uganda’s Woman Veteran Politician Cecilia Ogwal Dead At 77","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"January 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Uganda's celebrated woman politician -the outspoken veteran who always challenged President Yoweri Museveni's government Cecilia Barbara Atim Ogwal has died at the age of 77. 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