{UAH} Go home, buy from home, and take home”*

*"Go home, buy from home, and take home"*

Some years back I used to buy all groceries from the supermarkets in Kampala, Mbarara and Rukungiri town whenever I went to visit my parents in Buyundo village , Nyakashure Parish, Nyamirama Sub county, Kanungu district. I would spend about 200,000/= to 500,000/= on average. It had never crossed my mind that I could buy most of these groceries from the trading centres in my village. Then one day in some mad rush against time, I forgot to do the usual purchases and only realized when I had almost reached home. In desperation I stopped in the local trading centre and to my surprise I got 90% of the goods I needed to buy that day (Soap, sugar, salt, cooking oil etc). I was happy and the local traders in Nyamirama were also happy with me. From that day on, I do much of my shopping from the local trading centres. The local traders now look at me from a different angle, not only am I their son but also a friend and a loyal customer. That little action makes a difference in their sales and henceforth their lives. I can just imagine if for example 100,000 sons and daughters of Gulu visited  their home villages every week, and we spent  say a minimum of 30,000/= on local purchases in our local trading centers, that would be a phenomenal  3,000,000,000/= Ugx . Okay let us be pessimistic and have only 10,000 persons visiting, it is still an enormous 300,000,000/= Ugx.  That is the money we are leaving in the Chinese and Indians supermarkets in Kampala and we would now be indirectly injecting in our local village economies. Trust me through these simple interventions society will no doubt begin looking at us differently, we can cause a fundamental change. We can have our own Nakumatts, Uchumi, shoprite, etc in Kanungu. Please join me  in the campaign 

"Go home, buy home, take home"

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