{"id":6284,"date":"2022-10-28T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:15:45","slug":"reach-out-mbuya-excites-grandmothers-on-day-of-older-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=6284","title":{"rendered":"Reach Out Mbuya excites grandmothers on day of older persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, it was no common day for grandmothers at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church grounds Kasaala in Luweero district. The Day of older persons is celebrated every 1<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">st<\/span>\u00a0October and the theme for 2022 was <em>\u2018Resilience of older persons in the changing world.\u2019\u00a0 <\/em>Full of hope and excitement, the elderly women, in company of a few males entertained guests with songs, dances, skits and poems that conveyed a very powerful message to the guests and colleagues. One of the groups, Bukadde Magezi Development group presented a skit in which the old women encouraged their colleagues to enroll into Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative (ROM) <em>Grandmothers project<\/em> if they are to live a good life. Through out the skits, they figuratively referred to ROM as their \u2019husband\u2019 who has given them entrepreneurship skills and supported them with different livelihood initiatives like piggery, poultry, crafts, soap making and backyard gardening among others.<\/p>\n<p>Reach Out Mbuya with support from the Stephen Lewis Foundation has improved lives of over 1000, grandmothers by supporting their care and treatment, social wellbeing and economic livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Muwonge Joseph, the District Senior Community Development Officer was the guest of honor, representing the Chief Administrative Officer for Luweero district. \u201cThank you Reach Out Mbuya for all you do for the grandmothers in Luweero. And to the older persons representatives, please endeavor to lobby for the 10% district funds allocated for older persons development activities, particularly those in already established groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>This day reminds us of what jajjas (read grandmas) do in our lives; are custodians of our homes, raise grandchildren, look after animals and much more.<\/em>\u201d She said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/P11111-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/P11111-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/P11111.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hilda Achayo, the Community and social Support manager at ROM appreciated the grandmothers for turning up at the function and all they do to for members of their families. \u201cThis day reminds us of what <em>jajjas<\/em> (read grandmas) do in our lives; are custodians of our homes, raise grandchildren, look after animals and much more.\u201d She said. She urged people to always love and value the elderly. The function was crowned with a sumptuous feast and dance by the grandmothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, it was no common day for grandmothers at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church grounds Kasaala in Luweero district. The Day of older persons is celebrated every 1st\u00a0October and the theme for 2022 was \u2018Resilience of older persons in the changing world.\u2019\u00a0 Full of hope and excitement, the elderly women, in company of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6290,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/6290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}