On Thursday 7th
January 2016 was another memorable moment when Good Hope Foundation Staff together
with the rest of RWECO members had a meeting with the queen mother (Nyabahole)
of Rwenzururu Kingdom at the royal palace to share and discuss how they can
work together in preventing violence against children in Kasese district. This was
part of the preparations for the big annual event called Embale Ya Nyabahole
that is organized by the queen mother (Nyabahole) as a platform to bring people
especially the youths and girls together to discuss issues that can bring about
development in the kingdom.
The meeting was organized
to share and identify some areas where Good Hope Foundation and other RWECO
members can come in to support the event planned to take place from 19th
-22nd January 2016. Good Hope Foundation and other RWECO members
will mainly train the young girls in
re-usable sanitary pads which they believe will help the young girls to access
and utilize sanitary pads to eliminate challenges they go through during their menstrual
periods such as missing of classes, dropping out of school etc because of
failure to access the pads.
About the Embale ya
Nyabahole, the Queen mother said it’s an event that bring the youth and the
young girls together to understand and discuss issues that can bring about
development in the Kingdom. She said they use this as platform to advise and
create awareness to the young people on how to handle themselves in the
community and how they can participate in developing the Kingdom especially
through embracing Education and stopping bad behaviors that can put them into
trouble. She added that Embale ya Nyanyabahole is a period of happiness where
the Queen Mother (Nyabahole) comes closer to the young people and parents.
She thanked Good Hope
Foundation and other RWECO members for coming up with such initiative of
helping children and building peace in the kingdom as well as for thinking of
working with the institution to bring about development in the district.
She
promised to cooperate with all the RWECO members through the Nyabaghole
Foundation to end violence against children in the Kingdom.
Group photo after RWECO consortium meeting the queen mother at the royal place
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