UCRF Luweero Focuses Cancer Message on Young Children

Greetings from UCRF Luweero.
 

Last week on from the 14th-16th June 2012 UCRF Luweero members, Mr. Anthony Isanga and Juliet Nankumba, attended a working for Caritas Kasanaensis Child Sponsorship Program in Kampala at Mazzoldi House. During the workshop, they visited a school in Mukono at a place called Malongwe called St. John Nepomuk Primary School, Kitula. Malongwe is 40 km away from Mukono Town, about 100 km from Luweero altogether. The visit was intended to see some of the fruits of Caritas Prague Child Sponsorship Program a project operating in the Kasana-Luweero, Gulu, Nebbi and Kampala Diocese and supported by the Czech Republic.
 

Members took the opportunity to talk to the teachers and pupils of the school about cancer .
They educated the pupils and also sensitized them on some of the simple tips of safeguarding them from Cancer to include hygiene, avoiding genetically modified foods etc.

We also communicated to the children how Cancer affects everyone – the young and old, the rich and poor, men, women and children – and represents a tremendous burden on patients, families and societies. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world.

While the children are still young, we know that in Uganda, children bear a large burden of cancer (more than 50% of the Ugandan population is composed of children).  Secondly, we also thought that a stitch in time  saves you ten - so we decided to lay the foundation for future generations.

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