BACKGROUND
BUUMO INTEGRATED ORGANISATION here also referred as “BIO” is a Non-Profit
Community Based Organisation Licensed by the Ministry of Local Government
Under Registration Number; BLG/CBS/622 and Certificate No.138196 in Budaka
District Local Government in Eastern Uganda.
We believe that the Children’s right to Education is one of the fundamental building
arenas in which a child’s development and future priorities in life are determined and
certain.
BIO was established in the year 2019, as a response to an avalanche of orphans
created by the International rebel called HIV/AIDS and malaria. Mr. David Fagayo and
Jacob Katantazi both Ugandan Humanitarians came to a round table to discuss the
several challenges facing these children, the youth and the Elderly widows. Using their
own little resources and some small assistance from Trinity Child Care Ministry.
In Uganda, especially Kerekerene, orphaned girls are suffering the most as they have
been marginalized in the culture for many centuries. They are regarded as creatures of
no hope and obliged to marriage as an asset to settle debts that their brothers and
parents have caused. They are thus seen as a major source of income to the family.
Therefore, Buumo Integrated Community based Organisation is a steadfast initiative
intended to cause a fundamental change on lives of the dis-advantaged, needy children
and the elderly widows of the communities here in Budaka and Katira Sub-county in
particular.
Uganda as a country has endured a tortured history, and continues to persevere under
the burden of political instability, High levels of poverty, famine, racial and ethnic strife.
Kerekerene and Katira sub-county is a victim of these circumstance.
Over two decades ago, nearly eight hundred thousand Ugandans from the north of the
country were murdered and over one Million and six hundred thousand displaced as a
result of the civil war. This means that, the political instability in Uganda has over-scaled
the catastrophe. And Uganda today, struggles to come to terms with its painful history
due to the relative peace currently witnessed. BIO is the only future with a sustainable
realistic victory.
However, it is said of the Jewish Holocaust that, “the world slept and did not know”
Today, there is, perhaps, nowhere else on earth where poverty, disease, illiteracy and
war are more glaring than in Africa and Uganda in particular. In this continent, the
domestic ignorance, slavery and rebellion have served to create a humanitarian
emergency of epic proportion. The world community, church and other organizations
have responded to this crisis, however, much more needs to be done to address a most