Yearly Archives: 2017

The Community of CALM during the Procession heading to the main Chapel for Palm Sunday Celebration

The Palm Sunday celebrations did not leave aside CALM Namugongo community. We also celebrated it to the fullest. It all started the evening before the real day with decorating the church by Br Van Tan also known as chao chao, collecting Palm leaves from the nearby bush by Fr Venusto and Mzei Johnson and singing practice of Makerere College choir combined with CALM choir.

A warm welcome was given to me with a very nice meal. After the meal, my grandmother who had accompanied me had to go back although this gave me a great blow in my heart because knowing her as my mother she was the only person I was free with in my life.

Visitors at Don Bosco - CALM 

Belgian Flag being held by two young Belgian teachers and James Kuteesa, pupil, P2 of Don Bosco Primary 

Yesterday Sunday, Don Bosco - CALM, welcomed visitors from Belgium, Indian community living in Kampala and two young men representatives of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda.

Pupils running on the Bulindo playground

Girls of Don Bosco Primary School ready to face their counterparts of Bulindo Primary

Boys of Don Bosco Primary School being happy of being at Bulindo for games

Last Friday, March 31, over 5000 pupils studying in Kira and Bulindo Municipilaties, thronged Bulindo primary school ground to celebrate primary schools sport's day.

I reached in the morning and found he had already died at night. That is how I missed the last words of my beloved father. The preparations were then made for the burial and that marked the end of my father in my life.  That happened in 1999. This year remained etched in my mind up to now.

Children of CALM holding two new small goats in the farm: From the left, we have the boy called Divas, James and Kaffero.

The compound of CALM under renovation

CALM isn’t just a home to live in but also beautiful palace for a patriot dream.

Turkeys fighting at CALM yesterday evening and children watching happily 

Turkeys are some of the birds that dwell in CALM. This year the community has purchased many to equip the poultry. Every evening after school children at CALM get involved into co-curricula activities such as music, drama, football, rugby, etc.

Sometimes surviving in the village becomes easy due to the plenty of fruits like jack fruits, sugarcane, guavas, mangoes etc.  Since my mother was taking a long time to visit me I grew up knowing my grandmother as my mother and I was calling her “mother”.

Acrobatic team of CALM with Mr Youssouth from Rwanda, in white T-shirt, teaching Yoga to the beginners in acrobatics.

The mission of CALM is to rescue, to rehabilitate and to reintegrate into society, destitute children through provision of education basic needs and social cultural activities for a bright future.  With this in mind, children at CALM have decided to join acrobatics in order to fulfill their dreams at the highest maximum level.

Why my parents never stayed with me is not that they never loved me. It was because of the situation and the environment that could not support my staying with them. We lived in a slam place in Kampala called Nsambya Kevina in a small single room house of any Ghetto or slam place you can think of.