WE CAN START COMPUTER REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE, MOBILE PHONE REPAIR & TV AS WELL AS RADIO REPAIR TRAINING AT NAMUTAMBA

WE CAN START COMPUTER REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE, MOBILE PHONE REPAIR & TV AS WELL AS RADIO REPAIR TRAINING AT NAMUTAMBA

Andrew Lubega was supposed to be in Senior Six in 2005 at Kajjansi Progressive Secondary School. He had not attended part of his Senior Five due to fees problems. This problem started when his Late Father Mathodiuos Luyiga was knocked by a vehicle opposite Uganda Clays at Kajjansi in 2004. Andrew tried to make ends meet by working on people’s compounds and painting houses. In May 2005, Andrew’s father died after complications partly attributed to wrong medication he got after the motor accident. Andrew decided to leave school as the mother did not have sure money to meet the fees as well as feeding the family.

Shortly, in the course of 2005, Andrew joined training in computer repair and maintenance after he terminated his academics at Kajjansi Progressive School. Today, Lubega has more demand for work than he can satisfy. He was able to open an office at Kajjansi where clients deliver computers and other hardware for repairs and maintenance, while he has clients whom he gives services in Kampala and beyond. Andrew is able to support himself, his mother and family as well as help meet part of fees for his siblings still at school.

The above is evidence enough that if the youth of Namutamba get training in areas where demand for their services is increasing, chances are that these youth will be able to start own employment or have employable skills. Against the above background, I wish to propose the starting of training in Computer Repairs and Maintenance as well as Mobile phone repairs together with TV and Radio repairing and maintenance. This training can initially take off at Namutamba Church of Uganda where Namutamba Health Centre was initially located or any other location that may be agreed to by the promoters. Namutamba Secondary School can be one good source of students to join this type of training. The students may need classes in Mathematics, Physics and Technical drawing so that they have chance for higher studies.

I worked on the proposal for this institute, can we see Namulanda replaced by Namutamba?

It is becoming real that every office worth mention and now households are increasingly acquiring computers, the mobile phones are even found with people digging in farms and so many students own a mobile phone and the strategies by mobile phone companies to get more users of their services are leading to people owning more than one set to take advantage when ringing one on same network. When it comes to radios, many people have sets, while TV sets are also not that few. All these need people to repair and maintain them; hence the job prospects for those trained in the above outlined areas are good.


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