ENTEBBE
Spouses of Updf soldiers were on Thursday (August 30) urged to remain supportive and anchoring household income in their families.
The women under their SACCO – Entebbe Spouses of Soldiers SACCO (ESOSS) were on Thursday receiving sewing machines donated to them by Wazalendo SACCO at Air Force headquarters Entebbe. During the handover ceremony, SACCO members were also urged to make use of the SACCO projects to generate income and support the welfare of their families. At least five (05) Sewing Machines were handed over to ESOSS from Wazalendo SACCO.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, Col. Ketty Akello, Deputy Director of Personnel and Administration of Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces said the donation will boost their tailoring project. She asked members to benchmark other tailoring projects with a view of making business out of the equipment donated.
She tasked ESOSS members to emulate the working methods of Wazalendo SACCO which started small and has now grown to greater heights.
The Chief Executive Officer of Wazalendo SACCO Col Joseph Freddy Onata who delivered the donation said that it is intended to beef up the production capacity of ESOSS tailoring project and also enable the members to generate side income for their families.
“Encouraged by transparency and proper accounting that was demonstrated in the reports, I made a donation on of 5 sewing machines on behalf of WSACCO. These are the machines that we have delivered today,” said Col Onata.
The CEO noted that the WSACCO and ESOSS are focusing on the same goal of improving members’ welfare that which will ultimately guarantee stability in the families. He challenged upon the ladies to make good use of the machines in order to add value to the SACCO.
Doreen Birungi, ESOSS, chairperson hailed WazalendoCEO for their generosity and pledged to ensure proper utilization of the equipment received.
“We thank Wazalendo for making our dream come true because we dreamt of having enough machines and to have a tailoring centre in future. Wazalendo has eased our journey,” said Birungi.
