Elections In Uganda: Is Change Possible?

By Jacob Waiswa Buganga

It is election season in Uganda and other parts of the World.

It is time for prospective leaders to contest for power to serve citizens and experience 'successful' careers in politics.

Ms. Nancy Linda Kalembe - a Presidential Aspirant in Uganda,

There is one issue for sure that prospective leaders never mention: the fierce search for jobs and survival, or at least be recognised and open new opportunities for future appointments. They are like any other citizens who chose different avenues to find sources of livelihood.

Service to one's country has been most noble since the introduction of formal democracy around the World. However, it has had a sharp twist in recent years, when individual ambition to exercise power before others has proven stronger aspiration than the real desire serve and change lives of fellow citizens. The rhetoric is citizens' concern, yet in practice, concerns about the self matters most.

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Museveni (above) at one of the international press interviews revealed the truth about what and for whom he really stood for since coming to power in 1986

His statement on being a servant of his children and grand children only did not affect support he had and still enjoys, because of vested interests supporters have in his rule, as protection of business interests and enjoyment of favours in case of any threat to such interests.

While everyone has a duty to determine a leader of his or her choice, over time, those in power have restricted citizens' efforts to decide who that person should be, and even influenced decisions against national values. This has not gone on without opposition. The question though is: how effectively organised, knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced are they? Even with the experience they have, have they learned anything, or are simply time-wasters?

Patrick Oboi Amuriat -the president of leading opposition political party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)

Despite the limited success at changing leadership, very costly elections are organised every 5 and exhausted voters asked to actively participate. It is costly in terms financial resources spent, lives maimed or lost, and further deterioration of the quality of life of citizens. But, then, it goes on and on.

If loss of lives is the cost for a successful election contest, of what relevancy is such an election, when millions continue to live in poverty and social services are limited in quality and access? An election should be one, not a game or joke as it has proven to be in recent years. In fact, lowly voices argue that, other than run costly and unproductive elections, it is best for those in power to invest in social services and improve citizens' quality of lives. A section of the opposition, noteable People Power/ NUP believe that any earlier efforts by the opposition was comedy, and at no time would Museveni stay in power, even after rigging elections. However, experience has so far indicated that they never live by their word and cannot be trusted. Often, NUP leader was seen escaping arrest or confrontation with security personnel, while below they can be seen without berrets or red tops, which they vowed to wear as long as they existed.

People Power / NUP Party spokesman shortly after confrontation by security security forces.

People Power / NUP leader in red tie after going through a test of his own courtesy of security forces

While, again, everyone may have the power to influence leadership, much of what can be seen indicate practices like vote-buying and selling, supporting incumbent to guarantee security of one's property and business dealings, voting based on perceived chances of candidate winning elections, and culture of election-rigging that ensures preservation of the statusquo.

Nevertheless, election time still provides an opportunity to turn despair into fortune, to turn hopelessness into hope, to reawaken veteran voters to play active role in elections, to organise effectively and massively towards ultimate victory, and to strategically defend people's victory with the best mechanism to successfully deter alteration of voter numbers. If any such actions are impossible for the opposition, in their respective formations, then it is better to save one's effort and those of the people, time and resources, or even avoid risks to live through destruction of livelihoods, injury or death.

As interested citizens surge to contest for leadership, voters must seek for accountability from, first; the incumbents, much of which is lived experiences; second, assess individual personality and values of political parties in relation to aspirations as masses, and probe their knowledge, skills, experiences in leadership, and abilities shown in solving past challenges. He or she should not be a leader who says one thing and does another, or one who is renowned for self-talk, self-gratification, or whose message does not make sense, and are impractical, whose talk is usual noise and meaningless.

Leadership of a country should not be about ability to excite people and shift moods from one end to another. It should be about having knowledge of the country's policies and policy gaps, from which to build from planned actions.

It should be about understanding the real needs of the population and drawing interventions to address them in the order of priorities, and on record time.

Amb. Irene Wekiya, former NRC Jinja City and integrity of Parliament.

It should be about strongest desire to serve others rather than protect own interests as leader, or business interests of the individual. He or she should be a leader for all and have a national outlook, without regards to where he or she comes from.

It should be about ability to explain his or her vision and articurate clearly the very needs of the population, describe with accuracy and in a replicable and comprehensive manner how such needs will be translated into tangible goods and services, envisioned, and in a reasonable time, like within a year rather than 10 or 30 years.

It should be about a leader, who will render current generation of youths productive rather than let them expire intelletually and physically, or even face extinction without any known contribution to the country or themselves. These youths should able to leave a legacy behind for newer generations to inspired-to-aspire, as Prof. Amb. Badru Kateregga loved to say during his very arousing and memorable lectures.

Wanzala Richard has been champion of youth causes since 2004.

It should be about a leadership that can make use of existing manpower to contribute towards the economy without undermining the integrity of the natural environment, and ensure sustainable livelihoods of families.

This leadership should guarantee families effective means to secure decent shelter, nutrious for healthy development of children, decent income, quality healthcare, and quality education for their children. There is no best guarantees for sustainable security and peace for all, including reigning leader and his expendables, as securing quality services for sustainable livelihoods and wellbeing of citizens that no weapons of mass destruction can guarantee. Instead, they are rendered dormant and non-essential, or unjustifiable to dwell on as the basis of security.

It should be about leaders, who respect life and work towards nurturing it. Otherwise, how can a fox be the shepherd or even part of the sheep? It should be elsewhere.

It should be about leaders, who have strong foresight, enough to undo impending danger, prepare in advance for undesirable scenes with high-degree risk management strategy in pursuit of ultimate goals, and put in place systems and mechanisms for safety of his or her people, including ensuring confidentiality of information sources, or one that could endanger anyone in their political parties, against the increasing uncompromising, insensitive, robotic, and reckless security agencies.

They should exercise high-degree intelligence and awareness of the dangers at-hand posed by the incumbent, enough to win confidence of citizens and faith that change is possible, while pursuing leadership and a country for all to be proud of as citizens, where future of all citizens lay and disinterested in facing racism and xenophobia in other countries, with leaders who value lives of their people and work tirelessly and meaningfully towards prosperity for all.

Jacob Waiswa Buganga at an International Event

The author is a peace psychologist and founder of IMI-BMA

Kenya General Elections 2017

Kenya Elections 2017: Possible outcomes

By

Jacob Waiswa Buganga
IMI Uganda
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Kenya set precedence. It broke bare the traditional tendencies of African democracies - sticking to power and rigging elections or suspending elections, altogether. Therefore, it was "Unafrican" and strange part of the governance system in the region. Also, it must have been received with surprise by the regional leaders.

 Several reports showed that Uganda ever interfered in the electoral process of Kenya in the efforts to defend the statuesque. There were similar reports that Uganda security wore Kenya police uniform, with a mission of influencing election outcomes in Uhuru's favour. Russia too was said to have been involved. Besides, calls from Uganda and other regional countries to cling to power and reject Supreme Court outcomes were expected.

Analysts said that the court decision had a lot to do with the 2007 election violence in which over 1400 people died. The awful memories of the violence could not encourage perpetrators to stage a similar episode this time around. On the contrary, militant civilians were determined to die for justice or otherwise see Raila in power. Two of my friends in Kenya told said to me, "no Raila, no peace, and we are ready to die." This followed my question that, "what if Raila does not become president?" From their responses you could see sheer determination to see Raila in power. It was also evident from the conversation that, for long Raila was cheated out of elections and Kenyans had simply lost the patience. This time no chance would be given to Uhuru to either rig his way to power or assume the presidency. Simply, he had to go. It was just enough for majority of Kenyans to keep Uhuru and Ruto at the helm of Kenya leadership.

Early congratulatory messages and reports from observers caused outrage. At least, this time, civilians did not burst out in full-scale violence as the case in the Kibaki era. Media reports indicated total number of the dead as about 24 people. The congratulatory messages were sent along side concessions from some elite Raila supporters, who traditionally knew that once announced winner, no matter how victory was achieved, it remained valid. Not even the courts would nullify it. It would have been most pleasing if congratulatory messages returned after court ruling for the very extraordinary occasion in the history of democratic governance and thank Uhuru for consideration of nationhood against self. I think, on this event, Uhuru rose to become a hero, to be remembered alongside the likes of Nelson Mandela and other renowned statesmen and women.

Although there were some cases of violence, restraint was well exercised to give way for the courts to decide. The two "elephants" too made efforts to control respective supporters and give the courts a chance to arbitrate and decide on the matter. The outcome of the court was most eventful in the history of electoral disputes in any African country, when it ruled in favour of the opposition. The court decision was celebrated by oppressed people and opposition leaders in the region and made week-long news globally. Some opinion leaders explained that court action aimed at preventing another election violence that threatened the election process.

One aspect about Kenya people though, is: they are decisive and very well know what they want and get it if they have to, unlike people in other African countries. I would say, for example; that, Kenyans are not like Ugandans, even the Armies in both countries are different. Ugandans have been suppressed for long whose reaction is latent in a short run, but highly explosive in the long run, more over carrying an ethnic context.

Unlike Ugandan Army, which is still tied to a personality cult in Museveni, Kenyan Army is largely national. Uganda Army is still evolving in as far as carrying national image and appeal are concerned. Indeed the soldiers in Uganda care so much about their country, but the regime will never allow them to express it and respond to the plunder and chaotic socioeconomic and political environment in which the dictatorship thrives best. They only wish that civilians make the changes possible on their behalf, instead. Morally, they are at par with oppressed civilians as for any professional soldier or as human beings with families and friends within the civilian population.

The general elections in Kenya, as a whole, has for long carried a sharp ethnic line - featuring Kikuyu verses rest of the country's tribes. The country's socio-economic and socio-political structures have for decades been aligned, according Tribes, with the Kikuyu taking the biggest share of every aspect of Kenya resources and good life. There has been hopelessness on the part of other tribes, owing to generations of poverty and marginalisation, where urban crime has emerged as major way of life for the marginalised youths.

Despite the awful conditions of life most Kenyans have gone through for centuries, their proactive, principled and bold tendencies have never been compromised, and always showed promise that one day they would liberated themselves from maladministration and nepotism.

The Kenya's revolutionary outcomes I see today are therefore not surprising. I have had a chance to interact with Kenya youthful activists, but one thing you can never take away from them is the zeal and courage, which are very characteristic of youth-hood. In Uganda such activism happens in isolation, one time in a long time. Universities and colleges, which were the brains of the whole country ceased to be, activism significantly declined, vibrant intellectual debates at universities went so low down the drain, and any political discussions are now highly compromised. The Mamdanis and Nsibambis have never been replaced. From here, other public sectors assumed dysfunctional states and private sectors suffer as a consequence. A country where youths once became national leaders at 30 during the pre-colonial and post-colonial eras, active drivers of country's development endeavours, is no longer the same. Museveni succeeded at shuttering social life of Ugandans through poverty and political alienation as tools of oppression. What we have in Uganda is rule by pensioners who have ceased to act visionary and representative of the country's future. Should the majority and corrupt members of parliament also decide that, there should no longer be retirement age for civil servants. Incidentally, the regime youths working for pensioner-politicians are shameless, celebrating the short term pleasures from regime handouts and unknowingly compromises their lifelong legacies of being champions of youth-hood they ought to have and be part of the good history of Uganda and democratic Africa. That is very possible, more so, now, when the regime can change anytime, any day and very soon.

Kenya is very impressive. Young people are very much at the forefront of change, and never succumb to tendencies of oppression that Uhuru regime tried to exhibit. The 2017 general elections were not only about the struggle for the structural and fundamental changes, but a desperate need to change the highly corrupt and gangster government of Uhuru Kenyatta.

As such, for the first time in Kenya history, the tribal factor counted was minimal, and Uhuru was bound to fall. In fact, the election defeat of Uhuru was bound to be a rebirth of Kenya. The active participation of youths and women was very spectacular. It was a true reflection of the need for structural reforms, to eliminate structural violence and achieve lasting peace for Kenya.

Particularly, the women; their socioeconomic and political liberation has been long overdue. Their enormous entry into the political arena marks the end of much dreaded cultural stereotypes against them. And a new Kenya, without Uhuru, was bound to break the myth of change-of-regimes as evil, and instead push for change as guarantor of new lease of life for citizens in neighbouring countries, and change as much desirable if national development is to be fast tracked.

The court decision on disputed elections was highly celebrated as victory for democratic governance in Africa. Kenya took the model role of revolutionarising the region from military dictatorship to democratic governance, and join Southern and Western African countries. It showed how strong-willed Kenyans are and independence judicial arm of government, which in countries like Uganda, is only a dream. The poor young lawyers are nurtured in the same sorry state of the legal environment and are recycled to become corrupt as part of the profession. Many Ugandans wished to be citizens of Kenya, to be led justly and genuinely and express their political will, which they lack. This showed how proud Ugandans are of Kenya. They would beg Kenyans to keep pushing for good governance; inspire them so that they can aspire to become the Kenya of today.

The changes in Kenya will have some interesting yet positive outcomes in the region, as the decline in wars and humanitarian crises which characterise the region from independence times. Since independence, the departure of imperialists has seemed to be more curse than a blessing. The promising African leaders turned rulers and dictators, worse than the foreign colonisers. They became new colonisers.

Therefore, the final nail in the coffin of bad governance in the region shall be realised, when the Uhuru leadership finally falls. This should the prayer for Africa from any lover of liberated minds and fully liberated Africa. However, with all these said, Uhuru must be congratulated for respecting the court decision, which any other person in his position would castigate and, instead, stick to power. Even possible influences from his counterparts - Museveni and others could be resisted! It is a legacy set, for which he can always be remembered for.

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Indigenous Psychology and Integrated Psychotherapy Development

INDIGENOUS Mental Health Services
It is IMI position that transforming communities comes with a lot of resistance engraved in the spiritual, cultural, mental, social, economic, and political set-up of nomadic. This, however, must be done carefully with the right human tools, with a clear understanding of pastoralists psychology and the need to preserve indigenous knowledge systems associated to it, from which the country thrives as a tourist destination point, basing on attractions from strong cultural traditional, arid landscape, featured wild animals, and how all are related.

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 Mental Health Services

Mental Health and Governance in Uganda

MENTAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE
Psychologically, the ekimeza (round table discussions) offered an opportunity for frustrated and disappointed citizens to vent such psychopathological conditions off –which alone was therapeutic as affected participants will leave the forum calmer and feeling better than they came –having ‘blown’ out the toxics of anger on those leaders that betray their people. In the same way as earlier noted above, the need for identification can have significant influence on stability of the state once that state fails to respect such a need.  But according Whitman (2005:2), the objective of policy was to preserve and increase the relations (like ekimeza) we value and to exclude or reduce the relations we hated. Preserving hate feelings only generated conditions for conflict rather than peace.

Good governance catered for citizens’ cultural (leadership), political (decision making),  economic rights (access to development opportunities) and safety concerns –which if the government of Uganda had valued as one way to grant wellness and peace to a society that deserved such rights, violence would not have occurred. True measure of good governance was its ability to deliver development based on realizing people’s humanrights.  Indeed, the cultural-led violence was merely a spark that triggered the silence conflicts of economic deprivation, ineffective representation, and hopelessness of life under the sets of political, economic and security rights or concerns of the people of Uganda, as the case in point.

It can be submitted, now, that there is  need to let ebimeeza (plural) flourish at all leaves as forums to brainstorm societal problems, for problem-solving, for venting and psychological healing or peace and for enabling policy reform and formulation for the benefit of the common man, and for healthy relationship building as meaningful avenues for good governance and peace-building. However, more research is needed to define and set limit of the ekimeza/group discussions so that, while it assumes the rights and freedoms of assembly, information and expression, and appreciative of its responsibilities to society and governance, it knows it limits for orderliness Uganda and common good of its people.

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DISABILITY Services
Society and economics influence one another. While society evolves and sees the need to value, hoard and cost resources for status reasons, the consequential inequalities between the ‘haves’ and ‘don’t-haves’ create new conditions of instability whose failure to address, further create the different forms of disability simultaneously –escalating ignorance, poor physical, mental and heightened levels of instability within the socioeconomically lowly communities.
Disability is known to be more mental than physical as a well adapting mental faculty has the means to overcome challenges at physical level. Disability is relative and minimal bit of it may be motivating rather than socioeconomically challenging.
"Poor socioeconomic conditions are the greatest causes and predictors of disability, preventable illnesses and early deaths."

-Jacob Waiswa
Pilot project for the mentally and physically challenged
Purpose:
The purpose of this project to promote mental health seeking behaviours of mentally challenged members of the community through family/homebased interventions in order to increase access to mental health services and support mental adjustment, recovery, reduce vulnerability and achieve sustainable mental wellbeing.
Main Activities:
-Creating awareness
-Conducting research to know existing mental health problems and inform stakeholders
-Identify partners to support activities
-Identify households that need mental health services
-Conduct mental health assessments for respective households
-Develop interventions for respective households
-Conduct training for field workers
-Allocate resources and coordinate management of interventions
-Daily-weekly-monthly and annual monitoring and evaluations by field staff and organisations
-Share reports with stakeholders and seek their input in next phases of interventions
Specific Actions
-Family visits for general conversations to understand psychological concerns of respective family members and how they affect entire family
-Identify and restore family structures that are psychopathological
-Discuss new old and new family structures with first respective family members and later common roles and responsibilities towards new healing family structures.
-Monitor adaptations to new family structures for 6 to 12 months
-Align and strength community and institutional linkages mentally well families.
-Reconcile family members with missed growth and development stages
-Establish reward systems from within family to keep it developing
-Enact situations to elicit family based solutions under conditions of difficulty
-Supervise daily affirmations to new
-Identify and incorporate nutrients for mental strength
-Identify and incorporate physical exercises for mental and physical strength
-Identify common family roles and responsibilities into new family mental health structure.
Expected results
-Attain an understanding of each family member’s mental health and sources of mental and shared knowledge of how each family member should be handled to achieve individual mental development and wellbeing
-Discard of old relationship treatment patterns that were maladaptive
-Adoption of new relationship patterns that support mental wellbeing of respective family members.
-Realise individual roles and responsibilities for respective family members towards the mental wellbeing of the entire family unit.
-Assertion of each ones identity in the new roles and responsibilities
-Development of individual goals away from environment for personal fulfilment
- Ensure collective support for each other’s new roles to be practiced over time
-Knowledge of supportive links outside family setting that can be sought to support new family mental health structure
-Motivation to seek support both from within and outside family structure to support new family mental health view
-Motivation to take steps towards ones emotional, physical, social and spiritual needs with implication to mental wellbeing
Changes overtime
Discernment abilities of each family member to feed into the mental wellbeing of the family unit.
Happy family life that reinforces healthier family relationships
Development of strong family character that is stronger against external shocks
Better problem-solving mechanism with openness and input of respective family members
Development of appropriate goals for better life outside family(school, work and social relationships)
Greater concentration levels at work
Greater productivity and rewards (academic and occupational)
Better and supportive relations outside family life
Greater positive sense of self and togetherness as family (positive identify)
Complementary and supplementary support to each family members who need it for the greater family life
Easy assimilation of trauma and mental healing in future in current and future trauma encounters.

Addressing widespread socioeconomic conditions which impact most on individuals and their families, with emphasis on families that have been hit most, through reliefs such as;
- Reading materials,
- Breakfast to starving women and children,
- Clean water
- Infections prevention kits
- Toilet facilities
- Pads for girls
- Vocation skills training
- Clothes
- Medicine
- Sanitation facilities
- Longterm rehabilitation of those facing addiction to alcohol and other drugs
- Demystify maladaptive religious and cultural dogmas as well as physio/yoga for the physically challenges yet impacting mental wellness.
- Agroforestry (fruit trees)
- Subsistence agriculture for families without food
- Commercial agriculture for livelihood development of families in need
Environmental impacts or benefits the project might have:
- Inaccessibility to safe and clean water, proper food diet and proper household incomes are the greatest challenges to families affected by mental problems, which in many respects are influenced by climate change. Therefore initiatives to preserve the environment and restore degraded cover are one significant motivation for the project. Demonstrations shall be established and seedlings given at affordable price for value addition to this particular activity, in order for families to be actively responsible to the environment by way of agroforestry and fruit tree growing that support efforts to promote food security and agriculture related employment for the majority of women and youths. And institute and promote policy of planting 30 trees for every one cut down.

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Public Mental Health and Governance in Uganda

We yearn to survive, to feel secure, to find pleasure, and overcome pain from the day of coming into existence. There are specific needs to achieve those goals, such as food, water, medicine, social and professional support, renewable environment resources, and their continuous and anticipated access. Because they are survival, security, social, pleasure needs, we realize the right to access them and the responsibility and duty to work towards their realization. When these rights are not achieved at the moments they are most needed, the individual will be overwhelmed to levels when he or she cannot cope, which subsequently disrupts rational clues of achieving them or even any such hope, belief, and abilities to do so. Without interventions to address rising vulnerability of the individual, the cognitive, emotional, physical, social, spiritual and environmental connections are impaired yet are the ones responsible for his or her existence and achievement of the greatest of that person’s goals. There are specific references given to cases of mental illness that develop –one after the other –leading to total mental breakdown. Each of these cases ought to be addressed in singularity in new environments that accelerate healing, until the point the individual relearns the old environment and develops healthy coping mechanism to live and attain development goals there. This organization suggests th creation of a mental health infrastructure that creates contact with vulnerable groups and boosts their recovery while building their strength of coping and resilience to overcome their obstacles to expressing and obtaining their needs and rights. The infrastructure will be able to spot their unmet needs in some development time and process better the unhealthy mental attachments and images, provide natural means of negotiating access to natural needs and rights, enable such accesses to individuals who show natural effort and negotiation mechanism around challenges to expressing and realizing their needs and rights while using successful individuals to inspire others, until we achieve levels when the individuals can fix own challenges, express desires in most healthy way possible, seek assistance where they are trapped, and become responsible to themselves and society to achieve their aspirations. In doing so, the infrastructure will enable realization of people who are empowered and mentally well –sustainably.
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Psychological Trauma Project in Uganda

PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA HANDLING SERVICES

The project provided knowledge on interventions necessary to proactively manage trauma as first aid package to individuals; to mental health workers who time and again face trauma cases; and to institutions and organizations with interest in the subject of trauma interventions. The project helped to strengthen the mental health infrastructure to support sustained healing of traumatized families. It recognised and catered for the diverse approaches employed to manage trauma with a special emphasis on terrorism; both professionally or institutionally structuralised and unprofessionally or non-institutionalised. Their overall outputs and outcomes got highlighted. The study served as referral point for researchers and the general readers, and went a long way to guide them in the management of both natural and artificial disasters. While this study limited itself to affected families, it inspired researchers to cover psychological trauma and interventions among members of the security forces, medical personnel, and other service providers such as the media fraternity and general community, who were vulnerable to psychological trauma. Thereafter, appropriate interventions were designed to effectively and efficiently manage the different contexts it (trauma) occurred.

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Integrated Mental Heath Initiative 2016/17

INTEGRATED MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE
Current and on-going activities:
• Regular studies and analyses on mental health related subjects.  
• Home visits and home based care.

• Psychotherapy sessions.

• Mindfulness practice for mental development and peaceful states of the mind and the environment

• Caregiver training.

• Community sensitisation for mental health empowerment.

• Partnerships and collaborations for conducting interventions and resources mobilisation.

• Formation of community mental health clubs for self-help and achieve self-sufficiency.

• Capacity building for organisations, community leaders, teachers and parents.

• Strengthening development linkages and form affiliation for clients, supported communities and auxiliary mental health services reinforcers.

• Streamlining mental health practices among development agencies and grass root organisations.

• Monitoring and learning.

• Integration of best practices in programing.

• Competency and professional development for staff and updates and newly developed psychotherapeutic programmes.

• Advocacies and campaigns to promote public mental health.

IMI Experience (Lessons):

The mind was the vehicle for achieving the highest of goals, including public health goals. However, mental illness from across the globe was increasingly evident highly contagious. The sick and neglected environment set the stage for the trials and tribulations. Healing needed integration. The macro level conditions provided trying moments for individuals to either be subdued or to subdue and prevail. It was those who failed to overcome the conditions that suffered. And both preventive and healing medicines were rendered ineffective. Life after chronic stage was not catered for, yet clinical conditions were insufficient without aspects of environment and spiritual diagnostics of mental illnesses. Without dealing with macro level conditions, mental health care was not care at all. Stronger attention ought to focus on institutional net-working and cooperation with related institutions and persons combining forces to realize the project’s goal, through carrying out annual national-wide conferences on conflict resolution, international relations and nurturing peace as gateways to human and ecological security as well as initiating community-led and support development infrastructure to reduce vulnerability to mental dysfunction and prosperity for all. Such conferences formulate adoptable guidelines, legislative or legal structural designs and policies for local and international managers for use in decision-making processes. The project membership and affiliation was unlimited (consisting of its staff, hired experts, researchers, volunteers, interns, guest speakers, collaborating institutions, etc) in nature, since we all need one another in the struggle for human and ecological rights and entitled to them. In its interventional programmes, the project has interests and undertakings in spirituality (faiths, beliefs or religious sects); mental and general health, including socio-cultural, socio-environmental, ecological, socio-economical, and socio-political spheres for general well being and functioning of the communities in their day-to-day lives.
Sustainability strategy and lessons:
• Community ownership and mainstreaming mental health services in the main vessel of health care delivery.
• Representation of mental health concerns in key areas of health administration and policy formulation.
• Formation of mental health clubs and associations -with which to build capacity and help reduce pressure on existing manpower while helping to reduce adverse impact caused by mental poor health -characterising violence, abuse and neglect of family and social responsibilities.
• Integrate major predisposing factors to mental illnesses such as human rights abuses, environmental degradation, ignorance and poor socioeconomic environment to lessen vulnerability and promote economic and general mental well being.
• Beneficiaries will be grouped in viable economic forces to gain economic, social and participation power so as to recover fully from economic and psychological depression -in addition to strengthening mental abilities to adjust towards and forth from any degree of depression (Mental health empowerment).
• After working for the parent organisation, they are graduated to manage their own businesses with minimal supervision.
• The IMI continues to thrive from the shared resources to run organisations projects further ahead with remits from its internal investments build from tapping from the mighty talents and skills of its clients.
Replicability:
• After three years of clients working with IMI, they are prepared to enter a one year transition into gaining administrative independence so that they can run and thrive on their own using the proceeds gained from working for the parent organization (IMI) plus a booster grant of 500USD -given to them.

• First by widening resources base through renewable resource strategy, direct engagement with potential funding, utilise local engagement -to raise resources for self-help, and investment in its accumulated assets for sustainable revenue and self-funding as well as maximise private consultations. In line with increased resource base, the organisation, which now operates at district level, will initialize country-wide, regional, inter-regional, and global mental health facilities for it service and products utilization.
Best practices:
• Improve office infrastructure,
• Support sessions so that we do not have to charge fees to needy clients,
• Reach out to communities who cannot make it to our offices,
• Provide free food and clothings to beneficiaries,
• Support self-sustenance of our beneficiaries,
• Provide basic literacy trainings to children and youth,
• Support mental empowerment programme for our beneficiaries -including youths, parents and local leaders.
• First by widening resources base through renewable resource strategy, direct engagement with potential funding, utilize local engagement -to raise resources for self-help, and investment in its accumulated assets for sustainable revenue and self-funding as well as maximize private consultations. In line with increased resource base, the organisation, which now operates at district level, will initialize country-wide, regional, inter-regional, and global mental health facilities for it service and products utilization.
Way forward:
Future IMI will provide entrance for sustained healing and empower affected individuals to cope with the wider worldly challenges, brave the test, find mechanisms for problem solving and overcoming them so that they emerge victorious and happy yet mentally well. IMI in its response relishes multi-systemic and multi-ideological strategies to transform afflictions of individuals, groups, communities, nationals, and regions for into drivers of mental and general wellbeing. Without such amount of leadership that rallies forces and professional responses towards social, economic, governance and individual afflictions, communities like any other organism will endlessly be threatened by misery and extermination from life while adding more pressure to already vulnerable sections of society, unable to cope with macro development pressures and overcome them in order to be mentally well –with established comprehensive mental healing infrastructure under IMI that, after chronic stages of mental illness, gives caregivers support; community is prepared on how best to relate with vulnerable members, leadership is lobbied to allocate resources, and support vulnerable communities physical and spiritual needs with ties to mental illness, and mental and skills training for vulnerable sections of the community.

IMI Sponsored Information - SunSystems Hotel Management System

Internationally Digitised Hotel

Computerised Hotel Management System 

SunSystems Hotel Management System is a new generation of hotel management software for Windows. It is a complete solution, beginning with reservations, checkIn/checkOut, and ending with billing and tax reports. Other privileges; you can make reservations, indicates current stays, gives restaurant orders and prices prints invoices and receipts, gives clients' financial statements, shows status of rooms and calender of days lived, provides for staff shift management, provides for computerised stock management of hotel, shows purchase orders made by hotel, provides for management of vendors and suppliers, gives timely reports about all transactions, has emailing system, gives client invoices and many more from the system. The user interface is highly optimised for high speed in put and the prevention of common mistakes. It is designed for use of multiComputers, and contains reliable and secure authorisation levels. The program can be set up for any currencies, taxes and gratuities. Payments can be accepted by cash, credit cards and checks.

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Or email: Jacob, mailto:waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk

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IMI MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AS AT 2017/2018

Founder Speaking at Psychological Trauma Conference and Training Workshop in Catholic University of East Africa, Nairobi-Kenya, 2011

IMI HOMEBASED AND CLIENTCENTERED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

• Psychotherapy Research and Development Services
• Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Services 
• Psychological Trauma Management
• Psychosocial Support Services – Social crisis interventions
• Mindful Therapy and Development Services
• Children Mental Health and Development Services
• Love and Marriage Development and Psychotherapy Services 
• Education Support, Mental Health and Development Services
• Livelihood Support and Development Services
• Refugee Mental Health and Development Services
• Disability Support and Recreation Services
• Conflict Transformation and Peace Building Services
• Counterterrorism and Terror Handling Services 
• Organisation Process and Development Services
• Mental Health Governance and Development Services
• Indigenous and Alternative Psychotherapy Services
• Spirituality and Faith Healing Services

HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED

• As client
• As volunteer
• As service activity sponsor
• As client sponsor
• As fundraiser
• As donor/funder
• As ambassador
• As development partner
• As friend
• Visit us
• Visit our blog www.integratedmhi.blogspot.ug
• Visit our facebook page: www.facebook.com/integratedmentalhealthinitiative 

HOW YOU CAN REACH US

Telephone: +256774336277 or +256752542504

Email: waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk or dishma.imhs@gmail.com 

Sex and Genderbased Violence Workshops, Uganda 2018-2020

Championing Gender Equality and Peace Earlier in Life

Introduction
Sex and Genderbased Violence Workshop 2017 is an activity of the Integrated Mental Health Initiative (IMI) under the theme "mental health and peace twins for sustainable livelihoods and wellness". It aims at making sense out of gender issues and easing as much as succeeding at efforts towards poverty eradication and conflict transformation for sustainable development, wellness and peace.

Expectations:
The workshop will present rightful tools for understanding gender and SGBV and transforming the lives of affected and at-risk groups for better health, livelihoods and peace.
The workshop will empower individuals and organizations working in gender and peace development sectors with best practices for creating behavior chance and transforming SGBV into peaceful co-existence and inclusive development.
The workshop will speed up efforts towards meeting sustainable development goals.

Context
There is a steady rise of women and gender movements advocating equal treatment for women as for men. They have helped to cause awakenment and mass consciousness. However, women and movement have not actualized yet the principle of equity as responses have proved to be a more a conflict between feminism and masculinism without common ground for approaching development challenges. This  conflict has ironically evolved masculine tendencies in women to compete and struggle against men rather than work together. Many such women have ended up straining marriage relationships and opting to live as either single women, lesbians or single mothers. As such women movements created a worse social structure and imbalances that deny families stability and happy development of children. Rather than stabilize society women and gender movements have destabilized them, with increasing number of women as much as men failing and support continuity of society. Empowering service providers and at-risk communities help gain access to greater protection for affected communities and allows survivors to fully recover and live their lives in dignity.
Unique aspects of the training 
The Gender Based Transformative Workshop provides rightful understanding gender, sexuality and gender equality to improve behavior of men and women towards equal access to development opportunities and roles in meeting community challenges, without breaking and undermining the existing social structure for social continuity, such that men remain men and women as such, and that efforts to emancipate women do not victimise men - so that both contribute and benefit to and/or from development opportunities available regardless of their respective nature and conceivable thoughts on potential differences.
Objectives:

• To reduce burden of women and in key production areas needed for stable families and society.
• To ensure transmission of rightful message and programmes on gender to beneficiaries of respective organizations
• To support gender mainstreaming in key sectors of development
• To encourage weaker genders attain their development goals, without bias 
• To prevent violence based on gender 
• To realise peace and security as a whole 

Key programme outcomes:

• Equal access to development opportunities.
• Active and mass participation in economic production 
• Rapid socioeconomic growth and development 
• Socioeconomic stability and peace
• General state of wellness.

Championing Gender Equality Yields a More Equal World, Sustainable Development and Peace

Target:

• Civil servants
• Corporate managers 
• Parents 
• School heads and class teachers
• Student heads

Dates: 25/09/17 - 29/09/17

Venue: 

Jinja Central Division
Plot 15, Narambhai Road
Jinja, Uganda

Fee: $50 per participant

Accommodation:
$20

Contact us to request registration form:
Phone: +256774336277/+256752542504
Email: dishma.imhs@gmail.com/waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk

Wakiso Town Primary School: Education for a God-fearing, self-reliant, upright and responsible Citizens

Introduction

Wakiso Town Primary School (Watops) is a proud supporter of children wellbeing and education, both of which feed into each other (Wellbeing and Education).

Watops is a foundation of excellence, modeling young men and women to be God-fearing, self-reliant and patriotic. At Watops, we make the difference we want to see. 

Description of Watops:

Watops is a privately-owned primary education school that has impacted lives of community in Wakiso Town Council and Uganda in general, for the last 15 years. 

Location: 

We are located in Kasengejje road in Wakiso Town, along Hoima road.  

Services offered:

We offer pre-primary and primary education, mentorship and co-curricular services.

Our Vision:

Our vision is to mold upright generations for an upright nation.

Our Motto: 

“We struggle for tomorrow.” 

Our Mission:

Our mission is to provide a purposeful education that will help the children to be God-fearing, self-reliant, patriotic and responsible citizens.

Below are the visual impressions:

Upper School: Photo By Patience, March 2017

Headteacher Monitoring School: Photo By Patience, March 2017

Lower school learners happy to appear in photo:
By Patience, March 2017

Lower School: By Patience, March 2017

For further inquiries please do not hesitate to reach us

instantly by telephone +256772651018 or +256782393851

Kasese Massacres Cannot Be Justified At All!

There are always alternatives, but the war culture in these people resisted. How can a weak person fail to negotiate if you have all the money, all the weapons, all the technical people -local and international, to consult and have a peace settlement! Do we care to take deep insights before or after the tragedy? We should be able to get unbiased answers, free from Egos! Surely, there is nothing inevitable, nothing Divine or natural about justification of Kasese massacres! Remember, we have had same massacres before in this country that help us understand how humans can stop being humans, deliberately and later unconsciously. There was much in common with the senseless killings in #SouthSudan. And somebody simply sits back, relaxes and be happy about that, as job well done? What a world! And, therefore, there are completely no justifications that can be imagined for the killings, unless there is something seriously wrong also with the person doing so. You know we all die for once and for good. It is not a holiday or leave from work. The fact that no one is immune to death should make us have a heart for others, show some love and care, and some empathy where sympathy fails! But that ease of conducting so much killings show something terribly wrong that must make everyone worry about the kind of people in our amidst and the future with them. If a sobber man is found fighting a drunkard, what difference does it make of the two? Even mad men and wild animals are tamed! These massacred victims are humans like those who claim to love their lives more, and were entitled to life and emancipation and become civil citizens that could live happily in peace with the rest of the Ugandans! Much us it is said that, a seed of violence has been planted by those massively killed, like for so many killings that have happened in this country, what happened in Kasese were new seeds planted of future killings, immediately after harvesting all those lives. Who know who the future killings could affect. Nothing prophetic about this! It is a natural law and justice! Architects are in 'good' moods about job 'well done', a victorious 'war' and 'worthy' for a professional soldier (a Noble protector and servant of the people) to 'die' for. Even war has rules that we didn't see in Kasese killings! What sort of soldiers does Uganda have!?? Are Ugandans safe!?? And what can they hold of the future??? Then, what message do we send to the rest of the World, that we operate in as a unit??? There is nothing surely to boast about, be proud about or to celebrate about these massacres, really! Who can you be to do that, like yourself you kill at will and have mandate to kill fellow humans with ease, as though oneself (killer) is immune to death at any other single moment? Really, we need to have some respect for life, humility before others (servant leadership, regardless) and show a difference between levels of civilisation and animal nature in us, much as we all have the elements to kill by our natural design. Let's be a little bit human for the beginning, at least.  May the people of Kasese live to see the true judgement, justice happen and peace return to the land, country and region, already in fear or threatened!

FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY

A Peace Psychologist’s Response to the Gay Debate in Uganda

By

Jacob W. Buganga – Associated Projects Research (APR)

In brief:

Signing into law the anti-gay bill in Uganda appeals highly to Africans and Ugandans in particular: it is great stride in his role of championing Pan-Africanism and African culture that understood for centuries that the behavior was anti-social, a taboo like very many other socially-undesirable ones, which also was Divine, they way of life, religious exception! To naturalists, good for ecology and sustainability as it allows humanity to continue to regenerate rather than degenerate and thrive. He, m7 becomes a leader, straight away by providing leadership necessary to safe the human face, wherever elsewhere guys have failed! They now want other nations to fail by keeping them disunited and weak to help themselves. Every effort for Africa and other nations to unite and help themselves has been met by a terror hand of CIA. By doing so they are able to force anything down the throat of other nations, people -however horrific! Which justifies reactions from the people offended, who rely on weak-man's approach to save humanity face and Divine order! Such reactions amount to terrorism as much as CIA's and the West tendencies towards the developing world! So they create worse problems for themselves like terrorism and waste military resources to fight it, forgetting where they come from... Contempt for other countries norms, values and rich history will always be returned by a bad blow for them. Russia is already showing its fatigue for that... Then, react by cutting 'aid' whose impact has never been known. Despite it being given as the situations in hospitals, Agriculture sector are still the same. It only keeps Africans more poor and depend. ‘Cutting’ aid it will enhance creativity and stronger alliances in Africa, Russia and South America to continue to thrive. Aren't those bigger markets? President Museveni thus becomes a global hero and potentially rejuvenates his career as leader/politician! His action was also democratic as it expressed the wishes of the people of Uganda. I am told Americans believe in democracy. The universal human rights did not cater for the interests of Africans for them to ride by them. They were extreme views of victors in world war two, still angry. Ideas generated in anger are always very fundamentalist, terrorist! Respect for indigenous peoples' rights is consistent with the signed law, which is okay. Until do they start respecting other stakeholder in the world, will we find peace? Of course the law will define and redefine behavior. I have seen changed people (former gay). Good they are only a small number whose behavioral problems can be managed and helped for their better functioning.

I Begin with a True Story:

I am largely vegetarian for health reasons, not much in practice through... Great! Always knowledge comes first by understanding, when one understands makes rightful responses towards another person he or she has understood. You simply never go wrong in such a relationship... I travelled in taxi over the weekend when a woman stopped it to board. As soon as she did, she began preaching to us on board... guys began complaining to her, saying: we too have our religions. You are making noise... you did not ask whether we are first interested in your stuff...' do you know? She persisted! Everyone got disgusted! And to save the situation, the driver stopped and asked her to step out. As soon as she did, there was peace! That is what Ugandans are now experiencing at the moment... Conservative!? Essentially, every being has what it tolerates and what it does not –both physical and non-physical ones so that they can continue to regenerate and thrive in their natural states. Some natural states are only perceived so after years of getting convinced and practicing the same behavior with positive reinforcement for it to thrive and mean ‘natural.’ I prefer being described by others not myself... I can only guess: I am neither: I like living around the point of equilibrium... extremes can be irrational and dangerous... one an easily lose oneself... yet I am someone who struggles to be in control of my mind and behavior no matter my attempts to be either conservative or not... sexual? I am someone who likes to be in control and struggle to... to be able to manage my sexual needs, desires, interests, thoughts, feelings, and decisions I may make... religion? I like to think above religion: religions is organized from of worship to the superior being... I prefer to organize myself instead on how I relate with my God... because those organizations have people, are lead by people who are also prone to mistakes... if am a follower, I can easily make mistakes... nonetheless, I pick interesting stuff from all religions! Of course, by the time I came into being there were already religions! I was bound to be raised under one, and live among others! I have enjoyed them and came up with reservations, though for them all... I am happy for the good morals they greatly instill in followers and saddened by some aspects of conduct that are misleading, which instead of bringing prosperity, joy and happiness, they focus on taking it away!

Triggers to the Signing of the Gay Law:

because some foreign forces had started a campaign here among young people to make it an issue; intensively recruiting them into taking on the habit... so that after video-casing their work, including their women victims, they send back to their funders for more money... I mean, it had become a fortune for some people, who leaned their trade from overseas... and now wish others they left back home should experience as well... now imagine the case of one who married a dog? Would you now go around campaigning for the vice to develop in SA being is it the guy's human right... that is what Professor Mamdani the other day called 'human rights fundamentalism.' this in my terms becomes psychopathological situation/condition!

Implications of the Gay Law and Justifications:

If other countries neglect and avoid taking the moral leadership, Uganda will and be a role model to Africa as for the rest of the World. Of course a single country cannot provide leadership for everything; Uganda will provide it in this respect. The signing of the anti-gay bill will simply mean that whoever visits Uganda should respect the norms until he or she leaves. Even President Museveni can be in trouble to legalize it. He would be despised and thrown out easily even by his closest local allies. Signing it can only rejuvenate his rulership! People here believe in acting orderly ('mannerisms'), otherwise you never belong here. It is a yes or no response to the matter. this is what it is here: different; no question, no debate... that the way it is... if you were here, you could soon begin to agree to the notion here because you will never find anyone that will take you serious if fronted it as topic... guys will just walk away, not until you conform... conforming will only heal the behavior... otherwise any impulse has can easily be helped, even to kills, to have sex with a mosquito, sex with a blue fly... really... The west reacted by threatening to stop their aid to Africa, forgetting the by aiding Africa, they are adding to the menace of lack of creativity and dependency syndrome, a relationship that only empowers the west to force anything down the throats of the perceptually weak nations. Gay sympathizers have identified multifaceted personalities with felt and tested powers to model gay behavior by any means, anyhow. They have come up with individual scientists with their expert opinion on the subject –without a molecular background of African science. The gay missionaries raise memories that followed after the coming of church missionaries, leading to loss of independence. Africans who have always had their wise men based on experience are now said to be in need of lectures from another tradition that only tears it apart under their insensitive determination to universalize gay behavior, basing on the so-called universal norms, whose formation did not include Africans and Ugandans in particular but angry victors of the world war two –guided by far extreme ideas.

...definitely, the law will shape their behavior to be compatible with the national moral and ethical goals common to every tribe and culture here, exclusive of homosexuality... new law will help create order... some reactions may exist, but soon they end. We have seen behaviors change from the worst scenarios! Even dogs learn to do human work! I have seen reformist gays, now working against! Terribly so! Luckily, they are only a handful, which makes their case easy to manage. Phobia or negative force is essential to encourage behavior change. If you see a lion in its case, you cannot force your way to it just because you feel it is your right.  You will begin to avoid such a place.  ...globalization of opinion is dangerous as already seen in most African countries, whose wars hardly come to an end... national identity to the wellbeing of not only individuals but the nation... I cannot imagine a nation without values or just an individual... that nation of individual must be headed for nowhere: hell! these values vary; cannot necessarily be the same, otherwise we lose the true meaning of nature, rather than human concoctions... human curiosity is limitless, though...  it can try out anything! The more trials, the more realistic it begins to seem... and overtime, it is not only a trial but 'natural' as some people put it! ...man or woman has the power to concoct everything, anything; even to terminate personal life or of another... that's why he or she must work under certain common rules such that, if one is eating, he or she does not place the food in the nostrils, but rather in the mouth... that is a simple natural law, very recognizable...; that food must pass through the mouth! Otherwise, it is great to have working rules to achieve life goals... some people are now suggesting that, like poles attract... hm!? ...and suggesting that natural laws can be creatively reversed!?  Natural laws are also worship as Divine! So it is also as good as saying that the Divine can be challenged!? Nonetheless, man has all the powers to determine his destiny for the good (Divine) or for the worse (not Divine/artificial making/ from the human right of practicing the freedom of conscience). the ultimate goals/motive must be examined to safeguard life systems and support them (evolutionary nature) rather than destroy... and save humanity from other excesses that lead to self destruction and stalemates of the future generations under the guise of human rights fundamentalism... the west views are also draconian -true cases of human rights extremism that they wish to spread all over the world like some sort of religion -moreover by any means! Crazy! Will terrorism ever end? Indeed they created it! They do so by forcing what is understood to be dehumanizing down the resenting throats of other people, without any respect. The reaction from the offended becomes more terror than the offence as per the definition of terrorism today.  The extreme reading on the scale must be monitored to help support life patterns rather than dislodge... the complex nature of humanity has already caused problems around the world perpetuated by the same human rights fundamentalists that has placed African in endless violence... should they be listened to over matters of life or death of life systems? The law is thus important to moderate such fundamentalism... and help to achieve first, natural peace (or peace with Divine) and them human peace. We cannot see the world get wasted away yet we cannot some, through creation of order through respective laws. NO... if the so called world powers fail to lead the world through harmonious relationship with life systems, and only choose their destruction... someone who comes to save the situation is only JESUS CHRIST   to the entire world... Uganda can only take the leadership when it is not there... there is nothing that can make a Ugandans proud more than recognition of their culture, African culture, which is Divine in nature.

Comparison with the rest of other Countries that Okayed the Gay Behavior

...there is always a motive for everything we see or hear about: he certainly has his reasons, very strongly held by him as an outcome of his relationship with the gay world... everything evolves from somewhere: if is he is gay sympathizer today, tomorrow, who knows? To some people rationale or irrationality are the same. They have so many faces and heads to serve in different situations as means of survival and development. Already some countries with developed and nurtured gay tradition have made it a measure of development partnership with the countries that may need them. To some others, one is in the place of another, and others are specific to one for specific reasons best known after getting to learn well about the person, and others, because of the general standard set that has reigned for generations and that have to be preserved. So all these are people that we will come across... at the end of the day, however, rationality and irrationality, nonsense and sense, natural orderliness and natural disorderliness will always have a line drawn between themselves. Our people only need to make informed decisions so that they are not taken advantage of. This is therefore to help those who may be shocked to see any renowned social and media personality? That every one admired since the 90s and I have grown up doing so... what if he himself or herself is one? So what? What if not, so what? Life may be full of surprises. Anything is possible in life, more so from any person who feels he or she if got the power of anything, for anything and anybody... these may only serve to avoid any shocks of the kind from anyone, whether a big personality or small.

In Uganda, these events began their day last year... before then, they had never been an issue, not even microscopic one for discussion.... unfortunately, I am one of those that only have concern about it being an issue... it can be a subject matter for me even to research about, therefore. If you google gay issues in Uganda, it will bring you events how they have been unfolding... the industry has never been there! who registered it for it to take up the market... they were just agents (Ugandans who had picked up the vice and returned here), who were taking it up the campaign job based here to be able to raise money for themselves at any cost, despite the horrible nature it appears to anyone here... until videos of those agents leaked, and how they were recruiting young chaps, promising them to go live 'good' life in Sweden and wherever... Imagine those luring even women with the pretext of having normal sex, and instead pass the other way! All these can be found on line if you are interested... In SA, had the indigenous African been in control, given the strength of the cultures there as witnessed by me, even stronger than Ugandan's, I bet if homosexuality law would be passed there... Anyway, as I said this is never an issue that people here will want to even talk about... like anything you can imagine that only stresses you acutely... you can call it traumatic thing to talk about with a Ugandan... just like terrorism. that is how best you can understand the situation here... it became an issue to other countries other than Uganda last year, and probably, there were researchers who might have gone into it... try searching... probably someone might have travelled in to do research on it. And wonder if there is any CIVIL SOCEITY registered locally to promote gay rights here. These, if they were around, probably could have had the researched information and experience you may need. I doubt because those words, therefore are not the best to share here in Uganda. Not at all... It is a new issue as you now know... so you can take it up a research question: maybe you could be the first one of the kind to give a Uganda context results! I think I am also acting to the contrary by making it an issue to discuss here... LOOK: I have never voted this Museveni, but because of his position over the matter, I may vote him and forget the issues that never compelled me to... I think we better talk about some other things my friend, brother –not this one... inbox me!

It is not just about me or my it is not just my views, it is about the country's position, including the clergy, Muslims communities and all cultures all over this place... it is not just about me... That is what makes Uganda different at this time when the gay thing has become an issue... Even when you are here, you will not have break the countries laws just like I when I come to SA, or to anywhere in the world. In Thailand where I often go, if you caught ferrying or using drugs, that is death sentence... In Uganda it is ok... So many young people use them without police wasting their time... for some reason... I have never heard of a death sentence for anyone on those grounds... Never. As a result many Ugandans are serving death sentences elsewhere in Asia for the same reason. But our country has never complained to anyone about it! They only show respect for the laws governing those places... So it is about respect, really... I can only play a role of helping manage behavioral change... I can do my best on such researches: on how to help gays, rather than on how to promote... I think lets look at Uganda from the perspective of another context altogether, different from others... as differences are normal, be if in the worst form of best form: the issue remains contextual to consider... If I was doing research on the matter, my conclusion would be that gay tradition is not for Uganda, it could be only for some other country... Every place has its norms, traditions, standards, and so is Uganda... I cannot move around imposing my values to places I travel to... I may speak about them, but it is up to them to take it or leave it... But I only try to speak well about them full stop... Just like thieves, robbers... and all other characters exist; definitely, you will find some of them... Already as I said, there has been underground recruitment and inductions into the practice... that why authorities came up... otherwise, guys had the resources and foreign support to do their trade... As I said, the issue arose just recently... you can as well do a content analysis and come up with something... I like to deal with issues contextually... I usually do not mix... And that is also what research is all about. This can be considered a Uganda's case... All I am saying here mean much to what any Ugandan will tell you... even the least or uneducated one... Here we have Christians... powerful Christian leaders and practitioners... but they cannot receive this topic. Never... And they have serious Biblical considerations... to prove that... That same is the case to Muslims... and others...