Top Musician Invites Judith Nahurira Foundation to Fight Poverty in Kalerwe Ghettos
One of Uganda’s top musicians, Ssebunya Alfa, aka Mudra, has started working with the Judith Nahurira Foundation to improve the living standards of the Kalerwe, Nsooba, and Kawempe Division communities.
The talented dancehall artist, also born in Kawempe, is known for his captivating music and energetic performances.
Mudra and the foundation under the “Ghetto Project” identified several youths and women to benefit from the project, which started this year in late January.
The Judith Nahurira Foundation is facilitating the ghetto project, which aims to improve the lives of people, especially young people and women who live in appalling conditions, and give them hope.
“When Mudra saw what the Judith Nahurira Foundation has done in other parts of the country, he contacted me to come to his community. To me, that is important, and I had to make sure that I come on board with a sustainable project,” says Judith Nahurira, the founder and CEO of the Judith Nahurira Foundation.
Nahurira added, “We thought about the women and the youth to improve their lives; it is just the beginning, and this project will help in self-helping their children.”
Speaking about the opportunity at a glance, Mudra commended the Judith Nahurira Foundation, and he is hopeful the founder’s objectives will change the lives of people in Kalerwe through the Ghetto Project.
“We have seen Judith helping people in many ways; she has helped so many people across the country, and I approached her to help our people. The money coming through the project has to help these people. We also need to look into those with concepts outside our concept,” he says.
Kawempe is one of the divisions making up the Kampala district and is characterized by people living in high poverty, violence, early pregnancies of young girls who are now single mothers and school dropouts, high drug abuse, prostitution, and gambling.
The people living in these areas may seem to be comfortable with the vices, but they work a lot to change their lives. This is because their society produces and grooms its people in an environment with relative values.
Children and youth grow up in an environment where people are smoking drugs, parents are drunk during the day and fighting all the time, old people speak vulgar words in public, prostitutes stand on the roadside during the day, old boys break into houses and grab other people’s things to split into the dark, and it all seems normal.
But all this is due to a generation that lacks the proper values and skills to live positively and later turns out to parent another generation. Kawempe Division was well known for habiting and generating thieves, prostitutes, gamblers, drug abuse, and all sorts of shameless acts in other parts of the city.
So, the Judith Nahurira Foundation empowering these communities with skills and values would completely improve their abilities, personalities, and mindsets, thus also positively changing the upcoming generation.
These poor communities consist of indigenous residents and people migrating from the northern and rural areas of Uganda to search for a better livelihood in Kampala.
As a means of survival, most of the residents are involved in hawking, gambling, prostitution, and theft by grabbing people’s valuable items and running away, and small businesses are put aside on the roads, like charcoal sales.
A large population of this area is living in poverty, with high HIV/AIDS levels, violence, and hopelessness, as they lack the skills and values to be productive in life.
