{"id":37924,"date":"2018-10-17T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=37924"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:15:41","slug":"uganda-red-cross-launches-drive-to-help-bududa-victims-and-neighboring-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/uganda-red-cross-launches-drive-to-help-bududa-victims-and-neighboring-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Red Cross launches drive to help Bududa victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ritah Kemigisa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Uganda Red Cross Society has today launched a three months emergency appeal to mobilize resources to help\u00a0victims of Bududa mudslides and over 5000 families in neighboring districts whose lives remain at stake due to adverse effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists at their headquarters in Kampala, the secretary general of the society Peter Kwesiga said they are seeking for over shs 1.2 billion to support the people in various ways.<\/p>\n<p>The services to be offered include;\u00a0 provision of nonfood items, temporary shelter for the displaced, provision\u00a0 of clean and safe water, Early warning sensitization for communities on climate change,\u00a0 sanitation improvement and psycho social support.<\/p>\n<p>Kwesiga says for accountability and\u00a0reassurance of the money people will send, an international audit firm has been hired.<\/p>\n<p>The money will also help the districts of Butaleja, Namisindwa and Manafwa whose residents are also in danger.<\/p>\n<p>He meanwhile expressed fear that districts neighboring the mudslide ravaged Bududa are also going to experience similar landslides.<\/p>\n<p>t Kwesiga says early warning communication indicates that heavy rainfall is to continue and the three districts of Namisindwa, Manafwa and Butaleja are prone to experience disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah Kemigisa. The Uganda Red Cross Society has today launched a three months emergency appeal to mobilize resources to help\u00a0victims of Bududa mudslides and over 5000 families in neighboring districts whose lives remain at stake due to adverse effects of climate change. Addressing journalists at their headquarters in Kampala, the secretary general of the society Peter Kwesiga said they are seeking for over shs 1.2 billion to support the people in various ways. The services to be offered include;\u00a0 provision of nonfood items, temporary shelter for the displaced, provision\u00a0 of clean and safe water, Early warning sensitization for communities on climate change,\u00a0 sanitation improvement and psycho social support. Kwesiga says for accountability and\u00a0reassurance of the money people will send, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":37851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}