Hope Mafaranga

A pain of a mother who looks after 15 blind members of her family  By Hope Mafaranga I have been through a lot, looking after my blind husband, my blind children and blind in-laws is not a joke.  I am just putting on a smile on my face to keep me going.  These are the words of Celina Tushemereire a mother of six a resident of Numba-Kajumero, in Nyakishenyi Sub County in Rukungiri district says. Among her six children five are totally blind while one can only see during the night. She is married to blind man, her mother in-law is blind, her two brothers and one sister in laws are blind and also looks after four more children who are blind that are born by brothers in-law.  She is the only person that sees and is tasked to look after all the 15 blind family members on day to day lives.  Tushemereire tells a story of pain, agony, disappointments and the sacrifice she has made in ensuring that the family stands by her own. Patience and Hope  She got married to

Town dwellers are lazy and idlers- Kagombe By Hope Mafaranga  “People who stay in town and depend on small salaries are lazy and idle. They fear to engage in agriculture because they lack the right vision to see the goodness in farming,” these are the first words Charles Kagombe told me as I arrived at his home in Kitoma village, Nyakayojo Sub-county in Mbarara district.   How he started Kagombe becomes popular when his Zana Complex pub and lodge was booming, it was the first happening place in Ruti and people who were heading to Kabale and Rwanda would make a stopover for a cold beer. Augustine Murebe, one of the locals in the area said: “Zana Complex was a prominent place to an extend that people around used to sell their land and property to come and hang out there,” Kagombe was a prominent business and most people thought he was doing well because he used to import clothes from India and sell them in Mbarara. He owned multiple business entities that one ever t