 Puja kalafi niwa yu bayiqa niwa na mbunilipi wakasha vanu wakamiaka In goto uwakiku niwa kili wa wakamiaberia, Y playground deo mbunilipi mbunila mbunila Tapei mbunani wo mbunilipi. Tapei mbunili niwa temaoshtana keto kutizu afrika. Naatiri na kutidu niwa sreza Uwakiku niwa kutidu niwa kutidu niwa kutidi wa founded by the Canadiens in the 1950s. These top-class schools provided quality education to children of main workers and businessmen who came not only from Uganda but also neighboring Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, DRC, Burundi, Sudan, among other countries to work in the Kilembe copper mines starting in the 1940s. But in May 2013, the people of Kilembe were robbed of the decades of shine and sparkle of these centers of academic excellence. Rwanyamwamba had poured all its waters into the town leaving the untold damage on its path. Over eight lives were lost and properties worth $54,054 were damaged and swept away by the river. Today, the 743 and 813 pupils who are enrolled in the schools have to cope up with a devastating situation in which they find themselves. All were buildings were swept away and all were documents, some books and the rest, desks and everything. They were all taken by Rwanyamwamba. So we have been here trying for all means to make sure that the schools still exist. Otherwise, when the minister came here, he ordered that this school should be closed. We are still lacking skolastic materials. Our children are still suffering. Some of them do not even receive lunch because Rwanyamwamba had to wash away most of the crops which were grown along the river banks. And these children are suffering a lot. I request that every stakeholder can come and assistance as a resourceful person to mobilize these young ones to go to school, stay in school and then complete at least premareo besk, education level. One of the children that we have here in the Brenda school is sitting in post-chap, whereby we are lacking desks. As you can see, the runners seated down. They think that they are seated down. These are containers that were but came here which they tend to have been put inside. But the tale of Rwanyamwamba's destructive capacity is neither limited in time nor space. Upon clearing with the Kasese district resident commissioner, we then rushed to Mohocha, internal displaced people's camp. It is located approximately 343 kilometers from Kampala, Uganda's capital. The camp is temporarily hosting over 1,000 victims of the Rwanyamwamba floods that hit Kanyangia, Nyamwamba division in 2020. It destroyed property worth 140,000 US dollars. Many residential and commercial facilities were destroyed, yet there is no certainty about the permanent relocation of the victims. Ni baby ya ni batuyambo, but still me yoni is kicking I came to Kim Permanent settlement. Hakuwa no bara tu later ahana waka tu gabire monto ka tu teina maka gatukuraramu kuruungi mama ditu iniba kikutupuraramu. Kakuwa tu tunga a maka gaitu, naito tukabuwa hadisa hazinu tulion tu burabura hakaja centers in mioga o wa noti di beneficiaries. Haizile perish modo wia noti manga di beneficiaries. Ha tia kesuturi bania Uganda rwundi. Kanda kiki kunsa aliza, nibaba batu naga muktunga services in kez. Nosa hangu, tuwaburezu services, betu kanda obiwa kwa kwa gama niba genda koma, nora niba tuwizirahan niba gama niba kulek, ito aba kazi tu genda koma. Nuti chikora mbu sasi, niniyendi hanga liki mani. Kanyangia is a renowned Breitling hub in the Rensori region since time immemorial. Angabati makuikisana niaja, nilimujiwa kwa ganda mbuiwa, nila ganda koma nike mbu m priwa. Tzimikiwa mbu samii mpa knuja kwa mula hozon na mbu mizuna wakama.出alали na hużina kwa m cabeza, ituliaj residentu kwa dirya soka m problema sa lucma, na hihuu en Surfisa tangusuuho kusunaputaka, hila tasa wadikanya h Giving, We have started now a campaign of educating our citizens about the good practices of farming that they should adopt. They should change from the traditional ones and come to the modern ones. For example, the government has started teaching them about pre-planting. That is a forestation. And we have gone ahead by giving them even three tree seedlings so that this exercise can smoothly be done. We hope that by the end of at least two to three years we shall have got some other trees which will start helping us to reduce the speed of water as how it used to be. Then secondly, we have also tried to teach them as a method of farming like terracing. When rain waters come in higher volumes, those terraces can try to reduce the speed of those waters which would be running from the mountains up to the valley of river Nyamaama. In so doing, we hope that we shall end up carving down the situation of the river getting mud. We hope that maybe the culture which is in the people of cutting the trees in search for food and the school fees can be reduced. In so doing, we shall have solved the problem of tree cutting. Several research studies have been carried out about Nyamaama among other flood rivers in the district. We have the October, December season which I just called October season. We also have May, rather February May season which I just called May season. If the extreme rainfall takes place and occurs during the October season, it means that it would occur mostly mid downstream. And of course rainfall which is mid downstream intensively does not cause an intense flood because the intensity is caused by where the river comes from, so from upstream. So if it happens that at the time of this intense rainfall, it is during the May season or it occurs upstream, then we can expect an intense flood. Research has also been conducted on the contribution of human activities to the recurrent flash floods. Recomendations have also been made. People are looking for food. They are planting crops for food at the household level. The strongest strategy would be to go nature-based solutions. And some of the practices or measures under nature-based solution could be apiculture. Because if people are keeping bees and producing honey and other products, then they can use the money they generate from apiculture to buy the food. Kasisa district has a disaster risk management committee. In spite of the financial difficulties that it is facing, it is working hand in hand with various stakeholders to contain the floods and come to the victims rescue as well. We have encouraged some counties to identify evacuation centers. In the case a disaster happens, in the case of a flood in your area, we would not want to see people or the affected persons to go to a school, a health facility. We should identify just a piece of land when this happens, you can quickly a ferry or evacuate people. Unfortunately, we do not have money or funds to address the issues of the disaster. Right from the end, what has been done as a district as part of the innovation is to consider this in a mature manner. Having lived through this repeatedly, the victims have clear ideas of what they think can be done to address the challenges they are facing. It is the government to make sure that they are working tooth and nail to control Riva Nyamamba. Then secondly is the ministry to see that really the school is re-arriokated from this valley, which is on a risk at any time. When the river overflows, again these buildings can be destroyed. Some non-government organizations are also involved in disaster risk management in Uganda. They have put in place a number of measures to address the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation in Uganda and believe that these will yield positive results. Now is to ensure that we reach out to the community through our community volunteers that were trained by Uganda Red Cross and ensure that they have the capacity to respond. Because we already developed a DPP by the district, the districts are in position now to support all other six stakeholders within the districts. We have a community action plan. This action plan supports the community to ensure that they identify areas where disaster always strikes. For instance, they know that in this area, this parish, there is always flooding. So they always know how to prevent it during the time of flooding. Kilimbi will forever have a special place in my heart. But flashbacks of the beautiful childhood memories I've kept for decades now contrast so sharply with the sight of a near-ghost suburb I've just visited. It is a tale of survival in a faded relationship between the river and the people that needs urgent mending.