Kabagambe calls on many to help kasese
Besides making personal pleas to friends, through his friend, Catherine Freeland, he has also started a GoFundMe page calling upon many to help one of the worst hit places in the district.
Until recently, Kenneth Kabagambe was mostly focused on Hepatitis B advocacy. Then the floods in Kasese happened! Kabagambe, the founder of the National Organization for People Living with Hepatitis B has since taken to fundraising for the people devastated by these floods. Besides making personal pleas to friends, through his friend, Catherine Freeland, he has also started a GoFundMe page calling upon many to help one of the worst hit places in the district.
“The people of Bukonzo West County, in Kasese District of Southwestern Uganda, Africa, are in great need of donations following the recent massive floods that destroyed much of the area on 22nd May 2020,” Kabagambe said. “Many homes and public health infrastructure were destroyed by the floods and tens of thousands are badly affected.”
He worries that the conditions in the camps where the displaced people now live, will increase their vulnerability of contracting COVID 19, HIV/AIDS/STIs, Hepatitis B, and cholera due to poor sanitation. He adds that the communities need food, mosquito nets, sanitary pads, anti-malarial drugs, clothes, beddings, kitchen kits, psychosocial support, safe water, face masks, sanitizers, surgical and disposable gloves, tarpaulins and mama kits.
“With the current pandemic of COVID 19 and the outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo which borders the Kasese district of South Western Uganda, these vulnerable communities are left starving and many homeless as their property and farmland has been swept away by the flash floods,” he said.
Background
Media reports recently indicated that more than 100,000 people have been affected by floods in Kasese. These floods they say came as a result of torrential rains that caused four major river banks to give way. The rivers are; Nyamwamba, Mubuku, Nyamughasana and Lhubiriha. Besides Kasese Municipality, the effects of the floods were felt across Kitholhu Sub County, Kisinga Subcounty, Kisinga Town Council, Ihandiro Subcounty, Kitholhu Subcounty, Karambi Sub-county, and Mpondwe Lhubiriha Town Council.
By Civsource Africa Team