Thanks Aggrey for letting me know. And I am sorry that I didnt know this. I think the use of names confused us. Then we are in the right hands I guess. The idea Aggery has floated is what we would like to move towards and we shall be happy if it happens.
Christine On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:03 PM, aggrey adrale <fetagrey2...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > Dear Christine, > > Ayibo Bernard has been taken up by his current job in Fort-Portal. Good > enough the Dr. Anguzu Patrick Yumaa is the very Dr. Anguzu (District Health > Officer) you are referring to and he had already participated in two or more > such cafes at West Nile Club. More so Dr. Anguzu has the interest in > furthering this initiative. > > One thing I would like to share is that the Science Cafe approach can be > used as an out-reach tool by the District Health Office and perhaps it > becomes part of the activities that could benefit from the District > Budget... am I right Dr. Anguzu, can this idea be bought into your planning > process as one of the future Financial Years public health activities? > > Thank you. > > Aggrey Adrale > > > --- On *Wed, 2/3/11, Christine Munduru <cmund...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Christine Munduru <cmund...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Yesterday'sScience cafe > > To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <westnilenet@kym.net> > Date: Wednesday, 2 March, 2011, 13:00 > > > Dear Anguzu, > Thanks so much for appreciating and your interest in Science cafe. Patrice > had introduced this idea through Ayibo in Arua, am not sure what exactly > happened after it started because Dr. Anguzu the district Health Officer was > even very happy and was ready to start leading the discussions when Patrice > talked to him. The energy was very high and people really liked the idea. > What we are missing in Arua is to have passionate people about the idea and > we work together with them to share our experiences. If they identify a > group and have one or two people to organize am sure we shall not lack > professionals to present because they are so many in Arua. So first identify > a reliable group who are interested, let them identify a topic and you look > for a presenter who talks for 15-20 minutes and people ask questions or > comments and this goes on for one hour. But if people are interested they > continue for sometime before you declare discussions informal. This is how > simply we do it in Kampala and Entebbe. We do it out of passion as a way of > giving back to the community and it is purely voluntary. So if there are > people who like to volunteer and are interested in starting it in Arua, we > shall help them to start. > > The next one in Kampala will be on 26th March from 3pm in a place called > Naalya Hill view near Northern by pass round about in Naalya near Joglo. > Dramadri Joseph has a bar in this place and we carry out the discussions in > this bar called "friends together".When you come, you can let one of us know > so that we can direct you. > > In Entebbe we have 8 different malwa groups who do it once every month. > > Thanks > > Christine > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:19 PM, anguzu yumaa > <yang...@yahoo.com<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=yang...@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > > Thanks a lot Christine, for the summary of the proceedings of the last > Science Cafe. I particularly liked the suggestion of taking the discussion > to WestNile. A lot of people could benefit. I remember there was once such > an initiative in Arua at the West Nile Golf Club some two or so years ago > and it has since died. This initiative could be revived and enriched with > your experience in organising the event in Kampala. I understand the next > event is on 26th March. May I know where the venue is? I could make a > deliberate effort to attend one of the sessions. > Thanks. > > Dr. Anguzu Yumaa Patrick > P.O.Box 701 Arua, Uganda, East Africa. > Telephone: +256476421367 - Home > +256772696200 - Mobile > e-mail: > yang...@yahoo.com<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=yang...@yahoo.com> > > *“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why > it's called the present. ” > There's never a "right time" to wait for. So whenever you get the chance, > take a risk.* > * > * > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Christine Munduru > <cmund...@gmail.com<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=cmund...@gmail.com> > > > *To:* A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile > <westnilenet@kym.net<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=westnilenet@kym.net> > > > *Sent:* Sun, February 27, 2011 9:58:36 AM > > *Subject:* [WestNileNet] Yesterday'sScience cafe > > Dear all, > I would like to thank all the members who attended the science cafe of > yesterday. The turn up was good and blessed with the presence of our two > newly elected MPs; Hon Bako Christine and Hon elect Engineer Dr. > Aridru(forgive me if I have not placed the titles well). We also had two > elders who were very embraced and attentative to the end > > The topic Alcohol and the community was handled very well by members under > the leadership of Dr. Bhoka George who took charge in the abscence of Fr. > Vundru who got committed in the last minute. Thanks so much to Dr. Bhoka for > doing it very well even when not prepared. > We had a moving testimony from Adomati Dickson who finally made a decision > to control alcohol after seeing what it had done to him plus many others > that made the discussion very interesting. > Sharing those experiences was very important to remind us. > > Keys issues put forward; > > - Individuals should know that alcohol has more negatives than > positives and each person should take charge of himself or herself and know > the personal limitations while drinking. > - We need alcohol policy in place and the police makers should take it > on. > - Women generally have less capacity to consume alcohol than men and > they should take note of that.(this is a scientific fact) > - We should be our sister's/brother's keeper and come to advice when we > see alcohol is taking over the brother or sister > - People want to know about the rehabilitation centers and what > packages they have > - We need to take these discussions to Westnile because many of us are > taking care of families of drunken brothers/sisters and therefore we need > to > address the issue right from the roots > - Government needs to understand the causes of over drinking in Uganda, > propbably research needs to be done in this area to inform policy. > > > Way forward > We need to have a development agenda for westnile and address these issues > in the broader framework of our development agenda > > This therefore gave rise to the next topic for science cafe discussion > which is "Setting development agenda for West Nile". This will be led by our > members of parliament. Hon Christine Bako and Hon elect Engineer Dr. Aridru > will take lead in organizing their colleagues and the link for mobilization > between us and the MPs will be Aggrey Adrale(Aggrey is my own suggestion > given his strategic position and thinking). > > The suggested date is 26th March 2011 from 3pm in the usual place. > We shall keep reminding you but please book that date on your calender, any > adjustments will be communicated. > > What made me impressed was the fact that everybody including our MPs were > talking the same language; development and togetherness. We are not talking > about parites but development and Science cafe will not encourage any party > tone in the discussions, those will be reserved for places where they > belong. Therefore nobody should come there with that intention. All the MPs > are our brothers and sisters and all the positions they have taken are very > strategic and this was well elaborated yesterday. > > > On another note, yesterday's Monitor carried the Entebbe fishermen story > where our brothers were killed. Tabu of Monitor sent the reporters to me and > for two days we were documenting the story.The story was long and > traumatising. You dont want to know what is going on there. > The thing I want to bring to people's attention is that the situation is > still very volatile. Attempts to attack the westnile community after that > incidence has happened twice and the most recent was four days ago where > about 60 people armed with pangas were ready to come to attack the westnile > fishing community after false report to the police by a Muganda man. The > police were also ready to come to arrest the westnile fishermen based on > the false reporting. It was only after the victim, whose head was badly > shattered reported to the police that it was the westnile community who > saved his life and he was beaten by the Baganda ,not the westnile community. > There will soon be a civil war between the Baganda and Westnile community > if there is no intevention and with the high tension in the country, this > could be misinterpreted and could result into serious loss of lives. > > We had made attempts to make a broader intevention into the issues, > unfortunately we were betrayed by our own brothers on this forum and out > just because of love for money. This was becoming an insecurity source for > me. I pray that we put humanity first before money and try to help our > vulnerable members of community. 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