Alice
Victims of the Ntoroko floods have a reason to smile after Caritas Fort Portal intervened with relief shelter regarding tents and tarpaulins worth 200 million shillings.
While handing over the relief to the RDC Ntoroko, the director of Caritas Fort Portal Rev. Fr. Joseph Musana said they used a crisis modification fund funded by the government of Belgium through Caritas International Belgium to respond to the emergency of floods in the Ntoroko district. He says that they have provided 10 tents with 100 capacities that will go to churches, schools, and health centers, and over 400 tarpaulins to vulnerable communities.
Wilfred Sekanabo, the Ntoroko district disaster focal person, said that since 2019, over 11 camps have been created for 9000 flood victims from the six sub-counties of Bweramule, Rwebisengo, Butungama, Kanara Nombe, and Rwebisengo Town Council.
He says that the government has plans to reallocate the victims of the floods but it is still hard for them since most of them are fishermen who do not want to leave the place since they survive on L. Albert. He added that others do not want to leave their land since they are herdsmen.
He commended Caritas Fort Portal for providing shelter to the victims as one way of giving them joy and hope.
Rtd. Major Johns Mugabirwe the RDC Ntoroko district said that hopefully by the next financial year, the government will secure land where they will reallocate the victims as one way of decongesting the camps since the floods came to stay forever.
He advised people with hundreds of herds of cattle to scale them down and buy land in other areas where there are no floods.
However, Simon Kanyoro the chairperson of the Butorwa, Rwentomi, and Rwenyana camp was grateful for the support from Caritas saying that the tarpaulins they received were previously worn out and other victims have been sleeping on the verandas of other victims.
In contrast, others shared with others hence calling upon other organizations and well-wishers to intervene in the matter.
