Sometimes, we cry because life’s sorrows have become chronic, filling our life like unwelcome houseguests who just won’t leave. Other times, we cry because some unexpected misery lands like a meteor and carves a crater in our soul. And still other times, we cry and don’t know quite why; the grief evades description and analysis.
In the book of Psalms, chapter 30:5 says that weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
The first visit to the Ghetto land was based on a sad account now a few weeks later, the Bravo Shoes Community Support Team carried good news back to Nalunkuuma Teopista, the grandmother of Geraldine Rahim Bakka, a 4-year-old boy who trended on the social media for bad reasons.
At the age of four (4), the fatherless Bakka was in the bad books of the local authorities and the Police for allegedly participating in deadly robberies executed at night.
Bakka was probably fending for his family in which his mother Namugerwa Rebecca 24, a mother of 2 who is rotting on her sick bed in a place, now a paradise to them called the Ghetto Land situated in the wetland in Kibumbiro Busega along the Northern Bypass.
Our ardent follower, Regina Seyire through Bravo Shoes Community Support Organisation (BSCSO) was the guardian angel who heard her cry.
Monday was a blissful day for grandma Nalunkuuma with a sigh of relief after receiving the capital to run her dream business.
Based on the previous experience of our first visit, Nalunkuuma raised her daughter (Namugerwa Rebecca) single-handedly in the house of a relative without a serious income.
“She has been sick for 4 months. She can’t move without aid. I struggle to get what to eat or pay school fees because I can’t live alone to look for something to work. If I manage to get some clothes to wash, it is the only way we survive,” she said previously.
Today, Bravo Shoes Community Support Organisation spearheaded the revolution to change Bakka’s family, his tears were not in vain.
Nalunkuuma will now vend charcoal and serve the community which hated her most and she has since buried the hatchet and hoping to start a new chapter in her life.
Thanks go to Gadimba Fagaro, the Secretary for Environment and Development, Kibumbiro LC Zone B who has been the link between the organization and the family which is still in dire need of help.
Gadimba took Nalunkuuma and the team around the community to get a glimpse of how the business of charcoal works, she also had to do goodwill by offering free services to cater to her tomorrow’s client.
Though catching the smile of Nalunkuuma on spot takes a while, it was due when the track of charcoal arrived and the community seem to have welcomed Nalunkuuma’s new lease of life and face.
The onus is upon her to live the life the community is over demanding from her family, luckily, there was Bravo Shoes Community Support to make this come true.
Bravo Shoes Community Organisation Support organization founder Yesigye Brian said that the organization came in to help market the business to the community.
“This lady said she can hand this type of business and our coming here was to wrap up, we go to the communities and we market and give to some of her friends to help her connect to the community. This is why we are here,” he said.
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According to Yesigye Brian Bravo, marketing your business is very important and today, he took her through on how to market her business.
“We are going to distribute part of it to some communities around so that they can be able to connect back with her. Because of the bad images with her, we believe everything has been made better,” he explained adding
“ I told her that whenever a customer comes here, mothers will always send children to buy charcoal, food and everything so I told her it is a small tactic when you are marketing your business, if the child comes, you are able to hand over the business to the young ones, when you give them, they are the same who come and support her,” he said.
The organization bought some of the biscuits to help Nalunkuuma to market her business.
Before we could move to the community with Nalunkuuma, her new stall had started attracting customers with anxiety and they wanted to take a sip on this free promotion.
The promotion was led by the Bravo Shoes Community Support Team and Gadimba with Nalunkuuma leading the way to her neighbors for reconciliation and business.
The gesture was received with a glance and Nalunkuuma must be on cloud nine should her business continue receiving the same welcome it is receiving at its inception.
One of the customers caught on the way expressed gratitude and happiness upon receiving free charcoal from Nalunkuuma.
“We are really grateful; we have a big challenge ahead of us but we don’t know. She was a very hard-working lady, they used to be my tenants. They left here and went down there but still, they have been under different challenges, the man left her and she raised her children alone. They have grown up with our children here,” she said.
She said many husbands have abandoned their families and women are suffering hard without help.
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