Katunku Edith Mary
Date of Birth
Katunku Edith Mary (born in 1945 – 2016) was a Ugandan agriculturalist, environmentalist, politician, and wife of Katunku Nicholas. She was the first elected Woman Resistance Council V (RC5) member representing Budaka at Tororo District and she served in that capacity from 1987 to 1989. Before that, she served as an Assistant Agricultural officer from 1970 to 2005.
Education
She was born in Budaka District on 20 May 1945. She attended Naboa Primary School in Budaka District from 1954 to 1959. She then studied (J1–J2) at Bubulo Girls High School in Manafwa District from 1960 to 1961. In 1962, she entered Nabumali High School in Mbale to pursue her O-Level (S1–S4) education and sat her Cambridge English exams, graduating in 1965.
Qualifications
She graduated from Bukalasa Agricultural College with a Diploma in General Agriculture from 1966 to 1970; Sarah Kataike also graduated from the same college. In 1990, she obtained a Certificate in General Horticulture from Mukono District Farm Institute. Also in 1990, she received a Certificate in Soil Conservation and Community Forestry from Bulegeni District Farm Institute. In 1998, she received Certificates in Marketing Management and Financial Management from Mbale District Private Sector Development Promotion Center. In 2000, she received a Certificate in Environmental Education and Community Training for District and Sub-County Trainers from Salem Brotherhood Uganda, Mbale District.
=Business
Katunku Edith Mary was a shareholder in N. Katunku & Sons Bookshop Limited and Katunku Printers Limited.
Posts Served
She served as Assistant District Agricultural officer of Mbale District from 1970 to 1982. In 1971, she served as head of the home economics, nutrition, catering, and horticulture outreach programme of Bulegeni District Farm Institute. From 1972 to 1981, she served as head of the home economics section of Mbale District. She went into exile in the Republic of Kenya from 1982 to 1986. She then served as Farm manager of Bulegeni District Farm Institute from 1993 to 1997. In 1993, she served as the extension Agricultural officer for women and youth activities of Bulambuli County.
In 1998, she served as extension officer of Muyembe sub-County, in charge of training women's groups and nutrition, home hygiene, sanitation, energy-saving fuel stoves, mobilization, and training farmers on food security and resource mobilization. In 1999, she then went on to train farmers in the modernization of agriculture, organic farming, soil and water conservation, tree planting, nursery establishment for fertility management, farming record keeping, crop management, preservation and storage, and practical skills in establishing backyard and kitchen gardens.
From 1999 to 2000, she served in charge of Sisiyi Sub-County, training environmental committees on environmental programmes to implement the District Environmental Action Plan, mobilizing women's groups for grant facilities to increase household income, disseminating new technologies in organic farming practices, using animal urine, practical skills in compost making, making pesticides and fungicides using local materials, coffee establishment and management, banana establishment and management, energy conservation techniques in cooking, and practical skills in project proposal writing.
From 2001 to 2002, she served as extension officer of Muyembe Sub-County, training farmers in improving the quantity and quality of coffee, improving the quality of bananas, establishment and management practical skills, mobilization, soil fertility improvement, planting Napier grass along contour bunds, contour planting in Bukibologoto parish, compost making, tree nursery establishment, tree planting, and initiated the Masaba Integrated Widows Association.
In 2003, she served as the production officer of Bulegeni Sub-County, training farmers in farming as a business, cost-benefit analysis, improved nutrition, oil crop utilization, sunflower products, soya beans, cotton production, sunflower production, and control of HIV/Aids prevention under the CHAI project, in addition to her other responsibilities. Naula Edith Mary and Kabasa Grace were the first women in Bukedi to graduate in Agriculture in 1970.
Exile
After the election of 1981 in Uganda, Katunku Edith Mary went with her family into exile in the Republic of Kenya and lived at Karuri Banana Hill, Kiambaa, Kiambu District.
In 1982, Katunku Edith Mary and her family registered as refugees with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Nairobi, and in 1985 she returned to Uganda on voluntary return. She was cleared by the Uganda Government as one of the returning exiles.
Political Office
Her first foray into national politics was in 1987, when she contested and became the first Woman Resistance Council V (RC5) member representing Budaka in the Tororo Resistance Council.
References
(Source: The Resistance Councils in Uganda, by P.Tidemand, 1994)
(Source: Bukalasa Agricultural College, founded 1920)
(Source: Bulegeni Agricultural Farm Institute)
(Source: Salem brotherhood Uganda)
External links
N.KATUNKU & SONS BOOKSHOP LTD :: OpenCorporates https://opencorporates.com/companies/ug/6753
KATUNKU PRINTERS LTD :: OpenCorporates https://opencorporates.com/companies/ug/6153
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