Kaddu Wasswa: A Dream for Lifelong Education. Alternative Paths.
To whom it may concern, may this convince you.
We are here to make an unusual plea. We would like to bring to your attention the cause of Mzee Kaddu Wasswa John, without whom History In Progress Uganda would not have existed.
From the 1950s onwards, Kaddu Wasswa has placed energy in community service of various sorts. Moreover, he had the presence of mind to document his activities extensively because;
“Usually people do not write their own history.
Some people are given a history that is not really theirs.
But who can oppose and prove otherwise?”
Overtime this led to quite a collection. Perhaps we should, as the first publication devoted to his life and efforts does, call it An Archive.
Late last year, Kaddu Wasswa who has turned 92 early this month, gave us a big scare. A big health crisis led to the Archive ending up with us, i.e. History In Progress Uganda c/o Andrea Stultiens & R. Canon Griffin). We are now its provisional custodian.
Against what appeared to be the odds, Mzee amazingly recovered. And even ran a run with the King of Buganda the Kabaka Ronald M. Mutebi this year in April to support the nationwide campaign to remove the disaster of HIV/AIDS.
This recovery is not just his physical strength, but also his long standing ambitions to turn his home into a meeting place for his community as well as a proper archive. An example of taking charge of how history can and should be told from a grassroots position.
It is, of course, important that this legacy will be accessible, consultable, and lives on. Digitisation can do part of that job. That lies within the locus of our abilities.
But material documents tell a story of their own. And this is where Mzee Kaddu Wasswa has a dream that has recurrently motivated him to keep working on it up to 92 years of age and counting. He has always had a plan to build a resource center that houses his legacy, the archive inclusive of course, and has active facilities like an informal rural learning center, with special focus on the elderly, and interests in alternative learning paths such as indigenous methodologies that have not yet been integrated into standard educational formats for reasons that supporting his dream would contribute to solving.
And this effort is proving to be beyond our means hitherto.
We as the current custodians of The Archive, therefore invite you that has the means and sees his vision worth it, to contact Mzee Kaddu Wasswa by phone +256777394655, to discuss what could be done to realise this vision. We hope he will be most happy to engage you.
In the event of certain practicalities making it impossible or less meaningful to directly reach Mzee Kaddu Wasswa John, You may reach Andrea Stultiens (EU) via email to andreastultiens@gmail.com or reach R. Canon Griffin (UG) via phone/WhatsApp +256773561057 as well as email to canon.anon@gmail.com.
Thanks for giving this your precious attention. Great stories of constructive persistence, even miraculous, are many times made of holding on, such as to the dreams of a man of many false starts and shock stops in the past, Mzee Kaddu Wasswa John.
Once again, thank you.
Kaddu Wasswa: A Dream for Lifelong Education. Alternative Paths.
To whom it may concern, may this convince you.
We are here to make an unusual plea. We would like to bring to your attention the cause of Mzee Kaddu Wasswa John, without whom History In Progress Uganda would not have existed.
From the 1950s onwards, Kaddu Wasswa has placed energy in community service of various sorts. Moreover, he had the presence of mind to document his activities extensively because;
“Usually people do not write their own history.
Some people are given a history that is not really theirs.
But who can oppose and prove otherwise?”
Overtime this led to quite a collection. Perhaps we should, as the first publication devoted to his life and efforts does, call it An Archive.
Late last year, Kaddu Wasswa who has turned 92 early this month, gave us a big scare. A big health crisis led to the Archive ending up with us, i.e. History In Progress Uganda c/o Andrea Stultiens & R. Canon Griffin). We are now its provisional custodian.
Against what appeared to be the odds, Mzee amazingly recovered. And even ran a run with the King of Buganda the Kabaka Ronald M. Mutebi this year in April to support the nationwide campaign to remove the disaster of HIV/AIDS.
This recovery is not just his physical strength, but also his long standing ambitions to turn his home into a meeting place for his community as well as a proper archive. An example of taking charge of how history can and should be told from a grassroots position.
It is, of course, important that this legacy will be accessible, consultable, and lives on. Digitisation can do part of that job. That lies within the locus of our abilities.
But material documents tell a story of their own. And this is where Mzee Kaddu Wasswa has a dream that has recurrently motivated him to keep working on it up to 92 years of age and counting. He has always had a plan to build a resource center that houses his legacy, the archive inclusive of course, and has active facilities like an informal rural learning center, with special focus on the elderly, and interests in alternative learning paths such as indigenous methodologies that have not yet been integrated into standard educational formats for reasons that supporting his dream would contribute to solving.
And this effort is proving to be beyond our means hitherto.
We as the current custodians of The Archive, therefore invite you that has the means and sees his vision worth it, to contact Mzee Kaddu Wasswa by phone +256777394655, to discuss what could be done to realise this vision. We hope he will be most happy to engage you.
In the event of certain practicalities making it impossible or less meaningful to directly reach Mzee Kaddu Wasswa John, You may reach Andrea Stultiens (EU) via email to andreastultiens@gmail.com or reach R. Canon Griffin (UG) via phone/WhatsApp +256773561057 as well as email to canon.anon@gmail.com.
Thanks for giving this your precious attention. Great stories of constructive persistence, even miraculous, are many times made of holding on, such as to the dreams of a man of many false starts and shock stops in the past, Mzee Kaddu Wasswa John.
Once again, thank you.
