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2010
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Dear Friends,
If you can afford to donate Please come in we are badly off any with
Clothes, Iron sheets, Medical Contains, Water Equipments, Food and
Funds Bunabumali Good Samaritan Orphan & Needy school will be used as
a centre to Supply what have been donated to the survivals. This is
the Address Good Samaritan Orphan & Needy school
Bunabumali ,Buwali ,Bubiita ,Manjiya
P O Box 36021 kampala Uganda
Mobile:+256772465135
Home:+256711465135 http://bunabumali.org
Bank Account Name “Bubiita Good Samaritan Orphan & Needy school
Name of the Bank: Centenary Rural Development bank
Branch name: Mbale
Account Number : 3120417753,
Or through western Union or Moneygram
With Bunabumali project we are willing to pick up some children and
they stay at the Project meanwhile the Government Looks into the
matter
BGSON therefore requests Friends and well wishers to make
contributions of anything which will be used to help household
necessities for those who have lost their homes. We need emergency kit
we to be offered the affected household that has lost their homes and
property includes blankets, jerricans, basins, saucepans and Plates
tarpaulins, blankets, jerrycans, soap, saucepans, cups and plates as
well as water purification tablets As MASSIVE landslide swept the
slopes of Mt. Elgon Near our Project area in Bududa on Monday night,
killing at least 80 people, with 350 missing and feared dead. The
landslide erased three villages in Bududa district known as Kubehwo,
Namakansa and Nametsi located in Bukalasi sub-county.
Over 200 pupils, who could not walk home in time because River Wukha
was flooded, and took shelter in a shops in Nametsi, were buried. The
shop attendant, Michael Nabute, and the Headteacher of the school who
had reportedly sheltered them, took off when he heard thunderous sound
of rolling earth up-hill. Other people were trapped for running in
the wrong direction in a desperate attempt to escape. Weeping
residents, who lost all their belongings and livelihood, were
inconsolable. They stood in small groups trying to come to terms with
the loss. Men shook their heads in disbelief while others placed
their hands over their heads in shock.
Children sat on the ground helplessly. “It’s a mourning mood,” Alex
Bright, a security officer at the scene, remarked. Nametsi health
centre III was wiped away along with two medical assistants who were
attending to two patients.They were identified as nurse Phoebe Namwano
and Kalori. Pastor Agnes of Church of God Mabowo along with five
members of the church was also buried by the earth. “It’s terrible,”
exclaimed Kevin Nabutuwa of the Uganda Red Cross Mbale office. “It’s
a disaster. Hundreds of people have been killed and buried by the
landslide; the roads are impassable and the rains have resumed,”
Nabutuwa commented. She said earth moving equipment was needed for the
rescue process. The disaster which struck at 6:30pm, followed
torrential rains that pounded the sub-region for three days.
Addressing Parliament about the tragedy yesterday, disaster minister
Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere said the downpour triggered off the landslides
from about 800 metres above Nametsi trading centre. “A mudslide
covering an area of 200 meters wide came down and buried the three
villages,” he said. “The situation is sad,” Kabwegyere’s deputy Musa
Ecweru said. The army, the Police, the Uganda Red Cross and district
leaders rushed to the area which was reduced to a brown slope with
bodies buried underneath. Rescuers joined residents to dig up the
soil for survivors and the dead for burial. The survivors were rushed
to Bududa Hospital . Landslides occur when there is a downward slide
of a dry mass of earth and rock.
Over 800 hectares of rice crop in Doho rice scheme have been affected
as well as potatoes and cassava destroyed. Expressing condolence over
the deaths, the UgandaWildlife Authority, said the landslide started
from the encroached area of the park and spread about 250 metres into
the community land.
If you can afford to donate Please come in we are badly off any with
Clothes, Iron sheets, Medical Contains, Water Equipments, Food and
Funds Bunabumali Good Samaritan Orphan & Needy school will be used as
a centre to Supply what have been donated to the survivals. This is
the Address Good Samaritan Orphan & Needy school
Bunabumali ,Buwali ,Bubiita ,Manjiya
P O Box 36021 kampala Uganda
Mobile:+256772465135
Home:+256711465135 http://bunabumali.org
Bank Account Name “Bubiita Good Samaritan Orphan & Needy school
Name of the Bank: Centenary Rural Development bank
Branch name: Mbale
Account Number : 3120417753,
Or through western Union or Moneygram
With Bunabumali project we are willing to pick up some children and
they stay at the Project meanwhile the Government Looks into the
matter
BGSON therefore requests Friends and well wishers to make
contributions of anything which will be used to help household
necessities for those who have lost their homes. We need emergency kit
we to be offered the affected household that has lost their homes and
property includes blankets, jerricans, basins, saucepans and Plates
tarpaulins, blankets, jerrycans, soap, saucepans, cups and plates as
well as water purification tablets As MASSIVE landslide swept the
slopes of Mt. Elgon Near our Project area in Bududa on Monday night,
killing at least 80 people, with 350 missing and feared dead. The
landslide erased three villages in Bududa district known as Kubehwo,
Namakansa and Nametsi located in Bukalasi sub-county.
Over 200 pupils, who could not walk home in time because River Wukha
was flooded, and took shelter in a shops in Nametsi, were buried. The
shop attendant, Michael Nabute, and the Headteacher of the school who
had reportedly sheltered them, took off when he heard thunderous sound
of rolling earth up-hill. Other people were trapped for running in
the wrong direction in a desperate attempt to escape. Weeping
residents, who lost all their belongings and livelihood, were
inconsolable. They stood in small groups trying to come to terms with
the loss. Men shook their heads in disbelief while others placed
their hands over their heads in shock.
Children sat on the ground helplessly. “It’s a mourning mood,” Alex
Bright, a security officer at the scene, remarked. Nametsi health
centre III was wiped away along with two medical assistants who were
attending to two patients.They were identified as nurse Phoebe Namwano
and Kalori. Pastor Agnes of Church of God Mabowo along with five
members of the church was also buried by the earth. “It’s terrible,”
exclaimed Kevin Nabutuwa of the Uganda Red Cross Mbale office. “It’s
a disaster. Hundreds of people have been killed and buried by the
landslide; the roads are impassable and the rains have resumed,”
Nabutuwa commented. She said earth moving equipment was needed for the
rescue process. The disaster which struck at 6:30pm, followed
torrential rains that pounded the sub-region for three days.
Addressing Parliament about the tragedy yesterday, disaster minister
Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere said the downpour triggered off the landslides
from about 800 metres above Nametsi trading centre. “A mudslide
covering an area of 200 meters wide came down and buried the three
villages,” he said. “The situation is sad,” Kabwegyere’s deputy Musa
Ecweru said. The army, the Police, the Uganda Red Cross and district
leaders rushed to the area which was reduced to a brown slope with
bodies buried underneath. Rescuers joined residents to dig up the
soil for survivors and the dead for burial. The survivors were rushed
to Bududa Hospital . Landslides occur when there is a downward slide
of a dry mass of earth and rock.
Over 800 hectares of rice crop in Doho rice scheme have been affected
as well as potatoes and cassava destroyed. Expressing condolence over
the deaths, the UgandaWildlife Authority, said the landslide started
from the encroached area of the park and spread about 250 metres into
the community land.