{"id":71899,"date":"2024-04-24T18:21:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=71899"},"modified":"2024-04-24T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:53:08","slug":"elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant","title":{"rendered":"Elderly, PWDs in Jinja get Shs80m grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span><b>Jinja District has secured a Shs80million grant to cater for Special Interest Groups\u2019 income generating activities.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Jinja District LC5 chairman Moses Batwala said government offered this grant particularly to help the elderly and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) to set up projects to enable them live a better life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to announce that the government released Shs80m to the two vulnerable groups attending a training on how to manage projects set up to generate income for your better life,\u2019\u2019 Batwala said on April 23.<\/p>\n<p>According to Batwala, \u201cboth groups are very hard working when empowered with capital, which they lack sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that \u201cthe decision by government to give them grants reduces their dependence burden on the people assisting them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Batwala further directed technocrats in charge of Special Interest Groups to verify their numbers in the district for better planning.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cPlease ensure that you register everyone in the district, especially the elderly, so that we make a follow-up on their social grants because I got information that many of them in villages are missing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The district focal person for the elderly and PWDs, Sarah Tibafana said four groups of about twenty elders are to share Shs20m, while twelve groups of about sixty PWDs share Shs60m.<\/p>\n<p>The groups, she said, were selected from the sub-counties of Butagaya, Buwenge and Kakira.<\/p>\n<p>The Jinja District Community Development Officer, Ivan Kyangwa, said limited funding poses a big challenge to the implementation of this programme, adding that the two groups are faced with inferiority complex, weakness of the bodies and continuous theft of their items since they are vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>The councilor representing female elders, Irene Mawanda, asked the beneficiaries to uphold integrity as elders by not misusing money given to them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Jinja District has secured a Shs80million grant to cater for Special Interest Groups\u2019 income generating activities. Jinja District LC5 chairman Moses Batwala said government offered this grant particularly to help the elderly and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) to set up projects to enable them live a better life. \u201cI am happy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":71898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-71899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elderly, PWDs in Jinja get Shs80m grant - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jinja District has secured a Shs80million grant to cater for Special Interest Groups\u2019 income generating activities.&lt;\/ ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elderly, PWDs in Jinja get Shs80m grant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jinja District has secured a Shs80million grant to cater for Special Interest Groups\u2019 income generating activities.&lt;\/ ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-24T18:21:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2024\/04\/sm_1713968398.939171.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Elderly, PWDs in Jinja get Shs80m grant\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-24T18:21:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant\"},\"wordCount\":314,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2024\/04\/sm_1713968398.939171.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/elderly-pwds-in-jinja-get-shs80m-grant\",\"name\":\"Elderly, PWDs in Jinja get Shs80m grant - 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