The Kasubi tombs -- commonly known as a “Masiro” -- are situated five kilometers away from Kampala City Centre on Kasubi Hill, on the Kampala/ Hoima Road. The place is a burial ground for Buganda Royal Kings and a cultural heritage centre. The Kasubi Tombs entrance site was inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list in 2001.

Yearly, Uganda is endowed with good rains in the months of May, and October to early December. These rains are indigenously known as enkuba ya musenene, literally meaning season rains for Grasshoppers (Nsenene). Grasshoppers live on the coastal boarders of the great lakes region. Well fried and dried Nsenene are very nutritious and enjoyed by many Ugandans.

I (Rose) attentively sit in an English lesson; quietly and attentively continue to listen to my teacher, however feeling that someone is looking at me. I become completely interrupted and I turn around only to see girls observing me and my twin sister Joyce. My classmate inquires “Hmm!! Rose are you a real human being, spirits or ghosts?” My classmate inquires “Hmm!! Rose are you a real human being, spirits or ghosts?” Perturbed by the question...

Gender Equality faces a lot of challenges, and women know that there are those challenges that make it harder to ensure women’s health than it is for men. Peace, who visited Kamuli district in Uganda, shared her real experience of a rural woman. In a meeting with women in the village she saw a small 13 year old girl, whose face appeared miserable and in pain as if she suffered from jiggers in her feet.

Member organizations of the National Association of Women NGO’s of Uganda (NAWOU) gathered at the Namirembe Guest House on 5th November 2009 ,to discuss a draft of an East African protocol on gender equality. The East African declaration on Gender Equality (EADGE) is an initiative of the Eastern African Sub-Regional Initiative for the Advancement of Women to transform gender relations in the East African Community and its member states.

On 28th October 2009, yet another Information and communication Technology and Citizen Journalism Africa capacity building workshops ended at Crater Valley Kibale Resort Beach in Kabarole District, which is about twenty three Kilometers from Fort-Portal Town in the Western Uganda. In the age of technological advancement, more rural women need to be exposed to...

Rural Women‘s Day was a solely civil society affair until it was launched by international NGO’s during the fourth UN World conference in Beijing China in 1995. A worldwide empowerment and educational campaign is organized annually by the Women’s World Summit Foundation and celebrations takes place in over one hundred countries worldwide. In Uganda the day whose theme ...

The world is owned by 70% poor women and given that situation under which they live; women shun ICT’s because of time. In the age of technological advancement, they have been left in the cold/backwardness. Information and Communication Technology (ICT’s); Skills still remains the only avenue to empower women in Uganda.

A three day workshop aimed at equipping women groups with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) and Citizen Journalism skills and application of its relevance to their organizations has ended on 7th 0ctober 2009, at Ntulume Village Women’s Development Association (NVIWODA). Because effective communication plays a big role in the success ...

Hardly a day passes without the Local Councilor in charge of Children’s Affairs in Mugema Zone Kasubi Parish Lubaga Division announcing the disappearance of a child. Kasubi is among the most highly populated suburbs of Kampala City. As poverty stricken mothers leave their homes to find a way of earning a living, in these “survival for the fittest”