At the beginning of the lockdown, Faridah Kwagala sent a text message out to her tenants in Namugongo, a suburb in Kiira Municipality. It read: “I understand what you are going through. Don’t pay me until one month after the President allows us to work.”
Two months later, one of her tenants, Marion Achipa can’t stop talking about her landlady’s generosity. “I am a temporary worker at an institution, there is no way I could have raised three hundred thousand to pay my landlady during this lockdown,” she says. More