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Wainah is The place to be!
By waiswa
Submitted on 8 December, 2009 - 12:07
ShareThisI have traveled to almost all parts of Uganda but never have I seen a rural area which has basic needs for a normal living like Wainah Village in Mayuge District, in Busoga Region.
What I call basic needs for a normal living are shelter, clothing, good roads, safe water, schools, hospitals or health centres and not forgetting about enough food. When you look at all that I have mentioned above, people in Wainah can either afford or have them by just the fact that they are located in the right place.
Wainah is located along the Jinja-Iganga highway, this alone speaks for the good road and along the road runs a piped water line from Jinja. It is from this line that people in the area have managed to get piped and clean water. A heath centre which was put up by government covers the heath part. As for education, primary and secondary schools, both government and private, can be accessed within the area, and more still, these locals have been able to get enough food by the fact that this is an agricultural area. They are also able to save some of their produce for sale so as to cater for other needs like making themselves good shelters.
Having said all that, here is the added advantage which most rural areas don’t have. In Wainah for your information, people can get free water from the place of one of the residents by the name of Vincent Waiswa, who has given out water for free for the past year. Electricity supply has been put it place by the same person. As if that is not enough, a computer centre with Internet has been setup by the very same person. This has been running for the past six years in which centre people come and learn how to use a computer plus the internet free of charge.
When you look at all what I have told you, save for the lack of supermarkets, malls, banks, factories and maybe a few other things, I think you will agree with me that there is no rural area in Uganda which has all those facilities -- maybe even in the whole of Africa. If there is any rural area with an thing similar I shall be very grateful to share it with you down there, but I still think Wainah is THE place to be.