Haumba’s Trendy Thoughts

Eradicating poverty in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. While the number of people living in extreme poverty dropped by more than half between 1990 and 2015 – from 1.9 billion to 836 million – too many are still struggling for the most basic human needs. Globally, more than 800 million people are still living on less than US$1.25 a day, many lacking access to adequate food, clean drinking water and sanitation.  Rapid economic growth in countries like China and India has lifted millions out of poverty, but progress has been uneven. Women are more likely to live in poverty than men due to unequal access to paid work, education and property. Progress has also been limited in other regions, such as South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, which account for 80 percent of those living in extreme poverty. New threats brought on by climate change, conflict and food insecurity, mean even more work is needed to bring people out of poverty. The

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are often called the people’s goals. The SDGs were born at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 with the objective of producing a set of universal goals that meet the urgent environmental, political and economic challenges facing our world. The SDGs substitute the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which started a global effort in 2000 to tackle the indignity of poverty. The MDGs established measurable, universally-agreed objectives for tackling extreme poverty and hunger, preventing deadly diseases, and expanding primary education to all children, among other development priorities. For 15 years, the MDGs drove progress in several important areas: reducing income poverty, providing much needed access to water and sanitation, driving down child mortality and drastically improving maternal health. They also kick-started a global movement for free primary education, inspiring countries t

Fellow citizens, I write with a lot of sympathy and underwhelming confidence rooted inside my soul. This is premised on the fact that our country is rapidly experiencing a serious humanitarian crisis which many over (70 percent) of the Ugandans have never seen by the fact of their age. (Remember over 70% of the Population is below 35 years). We are surely living our days to forget.  Total anarchy and terror. Everyone fears everyone. Nobody can trust anybody. Even the men of God were we could be running to for divine intervention are being suspected to be involved.  The case of Brinah Nalule 22 (R.I.P), a student of YMCA Buwambo campus who was on Saturday 5th, May kidnapped by yet to be identified assailants from the Old Taxi Park as she headed to school. According to reports, the assailants who pretended to be taxi operates in the taxi park later used Nalule’s phone to call her parents demanding UGX10 million as ransom and when the family failed to make this amount, they

The Republic of Uganda and Kingdom of Lesotho have become the 36th and 37th countries respectively in the world to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty.  At an Expert Panel Discussion on the Marrakesh Treaty on the 27th April 2018 in Entebbe Uganda during SCECSAL 2018 , it was unanimously agreed that member countries should take on this task seriously and this will form the basis for future discussions like in Namibia 2020. The massage was well received as two more African countries Uganda and Lesotho joined the ever growing list of countries who have ratified the treaty. Other countries in Africa who have already ratified the treaty are: Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Tunisia and Mali. Before the treaty, one could not access information from other countries in a format suitable for blind persons. This situation resulted in reproducing what was already available at an extra cost just because sharing such material is blocked by the copyright jurisdiction. 

There is an old joke that 'if you want to hide something from an African, put it in writing.' This stereotype wasn't based on scanty mockery but sheer reality. While reading is not guaranteed to revolutionize your life, it changes one's perceptions, ideologies and increases general knowledge. It is here that literacy is exercised and great intellectual introspection skills are built. There is personal freedom in knowledge and that knowledge can be attained through reading. This personal freedom "opens a world" of opportunity and enhances the quality of one's life.  It’s therefore evident that the permanent cure for ignorance is the application of knowledge gained through reading what others have discovered and written in books or shared in seminars about their experiences, theories and ideologies regarding individual and societal perceptions. An individual or society that fails to read and study will definitely lag behind, because the dark cloud of