Monitor delivers first newspapers to Uganda's Bukwo district
By Erina Lin, Monday 29 October 2007 at 21:34 :: Circulaton & Distribution :: #773 :: rss
The first Ugandan newspaper was recently delivered to Bukwo, the newly created remote eastern border district.
The very first copies of Daily Monitor were delivered to five schools in Suam town council.
"We have been reading Kenyan newspapers and in fact the majority of our children don't know that there are newspapers in Uganda at all," said Martin Kiplagat, the acting chief administrative officer, according to AllAfrica.com.
The papers were delivered under the Daily Monitor's Newspapers in Education project of the Young Readers' Programme. A total of 550 copies will be sent to the district every Monday.
Bukwo District was separated from Kapchorwa District over a year ago. Most of its residents, who seldom travel out of Bukwo, had never seen a Ugandan newspaper.
Kiplagat said residents mainly trade in Kitale town in neighbouring Kenya because of the impassable road that connects the district to Kapchorwa.
"I have no words for Daily Monitor for being the first Ugandan newspaper to dare penetrate Bukwo. It is not easy to access this place," he said.
The product is meant for children, but many adults in Bukwo flocked to the schools to see a Ugandan paper.
Augustine Cherop, the District Education Officer, said that people at Suam, Kamet, Mugoyoni and Chepkwasta primary schools who received the first copies of the paper were ecstatic.
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