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May 31st, 2005 - 09:19:12 |
ABEDI
HOPE CAME FROM WITHIN BUT AFTER EXPOSURE
Story by Solomon Kuteesa
INTRODUCTION ABOUT UGANDA
Uganda has poor infrastructure and the Hospitals have inadequate health facilities like Beds Medicine etc .The Unemployment rate a high and Government has no enough Jobs and the private sector is the leading employer,the labour market is very competative and the integration of ICT in all sectors of Develeopment is a big challenge to those who can not affort using ICT gadgets.
ABOUT WABIGALO
Wabigalo Community is a slum area with 12 Villages of about 200,000 people Wabigalo has a very high unemployment rate and especially among the young people. we have very many old people who have grown in Poverty and their Sons and daughters have died of HIV/Aids so they take care of the Orphans but they have little or nothing to provide for the them in order to have a decent living.
With the problem of Poverty, the Elderly people who are helpless, the Orphans, people living with Aids, children with cerebral Palsy and other problems.
Omondi Abedi travelled to Australia Bribane for an occupational training in plastic extrusion with PPI in Geebung.On return he ahsred with the youth of Wabigalo the imapct a computers can do in ones life if he/she learns how to use it.Abedi was given a Computer by The Director of PPI Mr.Stan Mogg and also his Grandparents Peter & Lexie Webber gave him a Laptop which he used while demonstrating what a computers can do positively.
A computer can reduce on the idleness,reduce crime and create employment leave alone conecting with friends beyong our doors steps
He thought that we can fight unemployment by creating Jobs ourselves and Government investing in the Youth and building the Infrastructure.
We took his words of wisdom and parental counseling with a lot of seriousness and after he left our community we started a project in memory of this great man since he used a Computer we called our Project the Wabigalo Youth I.T Project.
In 2005 a container full of Humanitarian goods was sent to Wabigalo from Austalia by project Africa donations of computers to supliment what Abedi had strted with when Abedi got aJob with ICEDP in 2006 he Donated one Computer and again in 2007 he came with Mr.Edwin who accepted to train one person from this community in Business Development to fight unemployment.Rhona was trained and she is self emplyed thanks to ICEDP.
We have a Community Library in place and our Community School TRek High School recieved a Computer Lab the only one in our Community.
Abedi through AMICAAL started an HIV/Aids Project supporting orphans with school fees and scholastic materiials to attend school
Support the orhapns and there gurdians with food and clothing
Sensitize the Community against stigma & Discrimination of people living with aids.
This project costed Uganda Shillings 5,750,000 grant from Ministry of Health and AMICAAL through KCC.
A Mobile Toilet was bought and built for Peniel School to ease the probelm of human waste at the School Abedi and his australian friends achieved this.
Abedi approached Islamic Medical Association of Uganda and they accepted to train 25 people from Wabigalo in Prevention of Mother to Child HIV/Aids Transmission and with this project expecting mothers are sensitixed on the benefit of VCT and attending medical care.
all in all a Computer that Abedi came with from Australia has transformed our Community and todate young people feel they hold the ky to changing the face of there Community and kick out poverty for good.
Thank you Abedi and any person who helped you through this great work you have done to show us the way and how to change for real God bless you and give you more years to see the furits of your labour
Abedi Omondi is the Youth Chairperson of Wabigalo Parish in Makindye Division and when asked to say something he said "The challenges of our age are problems without boarders,solving them requires blue prints without bounderies".
Wabigalo is Proud of you Mate.
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