An Administrative Building in Mukono District Formally Handed-over in Uganda

Ágústa Gísladóttir, ICEIDA’s Country Director in Uganda, recently handed-over the first floor of the administrative building in Mukono District. Icelanders’ contribution to the building is one of the many parts of ICEIDA’s adult education project in the district which covers two island clusters on Lake Victoria.

On the first floor of the administrative building are the offices of the District Chief and the district’s social service department. Lilja Dóra Kolbeinsdóttir, ICEIDA’s Project Manager of social projects in Uganda, says that one of the main goals of the project in Mukono District is to enhance the capacity of the social services to implement a plan regarding adult education in the fishermen communities on Buvuma and Koome islands. “The employees of the social service department have thus far worked under poor conditions and the ameliorations of the working conditions are thus welcomed,” says Lilja Dóra. She points out that the social service departments in the country’s districts are one of the pillars of the government’s plan regarding equality and eradication of poverty.

When the new building was handed-over, ICEIDA and the Icelandic nation received a gratitude plaque from the authorities in the district and the residents of Buvuma and Koome islands on Lake Victoria. Residents on the two island clusters are about 55 thousand and from the year 2005 over 10 thousand have attended adult education classes. The residents of the whole district are, on the other hand, 900 thousand.