Wava Challenges Churches On Poverty

from All Africa

Byline: Mathias Mazinga

Kampala, - GORDON Wavamunno, the honorary counsel to Hungary, has asked church leaders to start poverty eradication programmes for their followers.

Wavamunno, also the chairman of Wavah Group of Companies, said although the churches had made a significant contribution in education and health, the abject poverty and rampant immorality required them to go back to the springboard. This, he said, would ensure that Ugandans attain better standards of living.

Wavamunno discouraged dependency on foreign aid, arguing that church leaders could use the local resources to improve the quality of life of their flocks.

"You can use what you have, or what is within your means to improve the living standards of your people," he said.

"The Good Samaritan in the Bible, for example, did not have to go to the bank when he found a victim of assault.

"He just used his personal resources to help the victim," Wavamunno advised.

He was recently addressing delegates of the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) at their plenary at the Pope Paul Memorial Hotel, Lubaga, Kampala.

The meeting was held under the theme: "Building the Church's economic capacity to serve."

UJCC is an umbrella organisation that brings together the Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox churches.