From teaching to gospel music
Sunday May 23 2021
Gereshon Kinyoro served as a teacher until 2003. He now spends a bigger part of his retirement pursuing music, his childhood passion. PHOTO/ALEX ASHABA
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Doing well in music: Gereshon Kinyoro, 78, is a retired teacher. His childhood passion was music and he got a chance to study it. In retirement, the passion is his source of solace among other activities.
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After spending 38 years in the classroom, Gereshon Kinyoro retired in 2003. His home in Kahungere Village, Mugusu Town Council in Kabarole District has a semblance of a music studio because of drumbeats, piano and fiddle tunes that emerge.
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Joy as flood-affected schools get new classrooms, latrines
Saturday May 15 2021
Pupils of Bikone Primary School jostle to enter one of the new classrooms built for them by Save the Children on Tuesday. PHOTO/ ALEX ASHABA
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The pupils had lost any hope of resuming classes after the reopening of schools by the government.
At Bikone Primary School in Kasese District in May last year, all the classroom blocks were washed away by floods after River Mubuku burst its banks, leaving more than 500 learners stranded with nowhere to study from.
The floods from River Thaku also swept away classrooms at Kisabu Primary School also in Kasese District, leaving more than 300 pupils helpless.