Mukono Diocese Donates 33 Acres To Scouts, DEOs Urged to Promote Scouting In Schools.
Uganda Scouts Association chief commissioner Gen. Katumba Wamala has appealed to district education officers and parents to promote scouting in schools and parents to enroll their children to scouting programmes as a way of molding them against social problems such as drug abuse and early pregnancies.
Gen. Katumba said this while receiving 33 acres of land which was donated to Uganda Scouts Association by the Mukono Mukono diocese, at Kulubbi village in Katosi town council in Mukono district.
“Scouting provides that platform for young people all the way from age 6 to be properly engaged through non-formal education courses that develop them, makes them useful, obedient to their parents and adults, organised and courageous,” Katumba said.
Gen. Katumba Wamala added that there is a need for...