In the memory of his sister, Gender Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Pius Bigirimana has built a community health unit for residents of Cyanika border. Town in Kisoro District.
The facility contains an Out-Patients Department, a fully equipped Maternity Ward and furnished staff units.
Bigirimana established it in collaboration with his family and well-wishers in memory of his late sister, Sr. Clare Nsenga.
Nsenga was a Catholic nun who passed on due to breast cancer in 1993. She was a member of the Religious Congregation of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Mbarara.
According to Bigirimana, the entire project cost a total of Shs 600 million, which was fundraised by family members and friends from Mercy Action, Norwich Diocese and St. Thomas Church in the United States.
The project now run under the Clare Nsenga Foundation targets saving the lives of mothers in Kisoro district andneighboring countries like Rwanda and DRCongo.
The Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda who presided over the opening ceremony said he was moved by the significant development in the health sector taking place in Kisoro district especially the facility initiated and inspired by the late Clare Nsenga.
