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Single mothers in Irundu Town Council, Buyende District under Situka Single Mothers’ Foundation have resorted to planting 11,700 trees in memory of two of their 117 members who faced devastating tragedies three years ago.

In 2021, one of their members was reportedly raped by a suspected patient with mental illness, while another purportedly fell off a tree from which she was cutting for firewood and sustained injuries.

The Foundation chairperson Aisha Nakyola, said the tree-planting drive comes ahead of Independence Day celebrations.

She added that this year, they have chosen to remember these incidents with a lesson for every single mother to have her own woodlots, preserve the environment and save the burden of buying firewood whose price has reportedly shot up from Shs500 to Shs2,000 per four-piece bundle.

“Today, we honour the horror memories of our colleagues and decided that each member plants only 10 trees for a start so that in the future, we do not have to go to the forest or far to look for firewood,” Ms Nakyola said on Saturday.

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