UGANDA: Internally Displaced Persons in Kasese Diocese Receive Humanitarian Support from Centenary Bank
Masereka Peter
The Centenary Bank-Uganda has donated food and non-food relief items to over 1,200 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) currently encamped at Kyalhumba Catholic Parish, in Kyalhumba town council.
The relief items worth 15 million shillings under the Banks Cooperate social responsibility include 900kg of maize flour, 1500 of cassava flour, 173 blankets and 40 boxes of soap among others.
Speaking on behalf of Centenary Bank, the Western Regional manager Mr. James Katamba, after the Eucharistic celebration at Kyalhumba Catholic Parish, on Monday, June 17 sympathized with the affected families whose properties including land, houses, domestic animals, birds, crops, trading centers and other properties used for domestic work were heavily destroyed.
And on behalf of the Managing Director, Mr. Fabian Kasi the Centenary bank representative encouraged the internally displaced people to champion the message of the Holy Father in his Laudato Si letter that encouraged the community to conserve the environment through planting trees and other good agronomic practices as one way to combat global warming.
He also encouraged the community around the affected areas and those hosting the displaced people to avail a conducive environment as one way of responding to Pope’s call on refugees and displaced people
Mr. Selevano Masereka, the Manager at Centenary Bank Kasese main branch, asked their clients whose businesses were destroyed during disasters to follow the rightful procedures so that Insurance can compensate their loans.
And in his homily while presiding over Holy Mass to the internally displaced people, the Kyalhumba Parish priest Rev. Fr. Cosmas Asaba Musungu reported that the camp has over 220 households, among them traders and Forty Catechists.
The Area Member of Parliament Hon. Harold Tonny Muhindo commended the development partners for the quick response and the Ministry of works and transport for bringing machinery to begin reconstruction of the destroyed structure.
Hon. Tonny gave a kind reminder to the office of the prime Minister that has failed to give an emergency response as well as engaging her sister partners to see the best way to cater for the livelihood of the affected family as well as forging a way of resettling them. END
