Balunywa Foundation involved "Bulungi bwa Nsi" community work. Mutabazi is welcome

The Balunywa Foundation is the association of young people who came together to support one another so as to realize their potential. They train one another and also extend the activities to training others including youth, women and entrepreneurs in the Iganga area. Last weekend, they were involved in the Corporate Social Responsibility. I always pride myself as coming from the industrialized village in the country because our village has a steel rolling mill, Tembo steel rolling mill at Kasolo Iganga. It is a shame that right outside their gate, they had a gutter which was caused by partly their actions of putting a channel on the road side which channel doesn’t take the rain water from the road side. The result has been that people have been falling off boda bodas right in front of the factory. The young people working with several people in the village decided to do “bulungi bwa nsi” and fill the pothole with stones and murram. The laws of the country are interesting. We were told that government will not be pleased that we were filling these potholes in the road. However for the sake of the lives of the people in the area, we went ahead with doing the task. The Foundation was joined by another young social entrepreneur; the +256 group supported the effort making improvements in the lives of the people who use the area. I noted that there are hundreds of Boda bodas that pass this area and this simply was a call for better roads and better transport system in form of buses. When we talked to the mini bus owners who passed by they decried the road as the problem. The Local Chairman of the Lwengo area, Mr. Mutabazi who was recently involved in “bulungi bwa nsi” community work in his area cained people. Mutabazi is a hardworking person who has brought change in Lwengo district and he is loved by his people. His mistake was to bring TV people while implementing his policies.

What Mr. Mutabazi did was controversial yes but then you wonder whether people know that they are poor. No government in this country will have enough funds to do all the roads. Some voluntary work to improve ourselves is necessary. It is tough to remove poverty among people who do not know they are poor.