Tree Planting at Luzira prison

This afternoon (November 19, 2012) we launched a tree planting campaign in Luzira prison. We want to plant some 50 acres of trees if they are available in the next 3 years. This will include Eucalyptus, pine, fruits among other types of trees. This is part of our Corporate Social Responsibility. We are already running certificate and diploma programmes in Luzira prison. Tree planting is an additional effort. But what we found in prison was good news. The Uganda Prison Service has now turned from a place where people to be punished to a place where people go to be rehabilitated. I was pleasantly surprised by the Luzira women’s choir and the songs that they composed. It was a good experience. My other small shock was that the women inmates were said to have been committed to Luzira due to passion related crime and this has implications on conduct on people or most of those innocent looking young women had crossed a line. The world is an interesting place with all kinds of things happening, some of which we never think about