The first lady and minister of Education has encouraged women in Mityana District to know and fear God.
She has also told them to make Him the foundation of their families.
Mrs. Janet Museveni said all this while addressing a Symposium of grassroots women leaders at Enro Hotel in Mityana Municipality recently.
The symposium to sensitize and empower the women on how to improve on their household incomes was organized by Mityana Woman MP Hon. Judith Nabakooba.
“The fear of God is the beginning of all wisdom. If you know God and make him the foundation of your family, He [God] will not allow your family to remain backward. He will give you wisdom to develop your home,” She said.
Mrs Museveni further urged that it is important for all families in the country to work hard and earn an income at household level because even if Government excelled at all the work it is required to do and the families remained poor, Uganda would still be a poor country.
Mityana Grassroots Women Development Organization, a brain child of Hon. Judith Nabakooba, aims at improving the social welfare and economic status of women, their households and the community as a whole through community driven initiatives.
Hon. Judith Nabakooba said the impact of continued land disputes, domestic violence and poverty has affected the women, youth, widows and orphans hence the increasing number of vulnerable people in Mityana District. She said their organization has come up with non-formal skills training projects to help the women and youth boost their livelihoods and projects like bee keeping, poultry, piggery, vegetable and fruit growing among others are being promoted.
Nabakooba thanked Government for the development programs including the support to women groups under the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Program and the youth under the Youth livelihood program. She however cited the hustle women go through to access agriculture inputs from NAADS and Operation Wealth Creation and requested for specific consideration for the women and youth.
The State Minister for Tourism who is also MP Mityana North Hon. Godfrey Kiwanda lauded Mrs. Janet Museveni for being a good and exemplary mother and for always using her God-given gifts for the benefit of the most vulnerable in society.
