The Uganda Registration Services Bureau
(URSB) has donated various items to the Mapeera Bakateyamba home for vulnerable people in
Kampala.
The donations included sugar, rice, posho, salt, soap, flour, eggs, toilet paper and beans.
Handing over the items, URSB Registrar General Mercy K.Kainobwisho said the donation was
in line with the organisation’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy and promised that the
Bureau will continue to support the needy.
“We care about the communities in which we operate. As such, we try as much as possible to
look out for their needs and make our contribution, however small it is,” Kainobwisho said.
The elderly home accommodates over 100 people elderly and sick young people was started by
the late Emmanuel Cardinal Nsubuga with the aim of providing shelter for less advantaged
elderly people.
Sister Mary Lawrence Nakiwu, the Administrator, Mapeera Bakateyamba Home, said that the
donated items will go a long in helping improve the lives of the people in the home. Mapeera
Bakateyamba Home is currently residence to needy people from all walks of life.
Sister Mary added that although they have a pick up truck used for transporting food from their farm, it is too old that it breaks every so often and requested for help on the matter.
The institution houses a 90 year old as the oldest.
Founded by the late Emmanuel Cardinal Nsubuga in 1978, the Mapeera Bakateyamba home is
run by the Good Samaritan Sisters under the patronage of Kampala Catholic Archdiocese.
Located at Nalukolongo, along the Kampala-Masaka road, the home has a hostel with capacity
for 300 people. Currently, there are disabled, elderly, destitute and otherwise vulnerable
persons at the facility.
