Makerere University 88th vice guild president Margaret Nattabi has made an attempt to revive the guild tuition trust fund, an initiative that was launched by past regimes to help solicit funds for financially challenged students.
The guild tuition trust fund has been ineffective in the past years due to several challenges among which is lack of a legal frame work to guide how the fund should be run and lack of transparency.
In her letter dated February 25th, Margaret Nattabi wrote to the minister of justice and constitutional affairs directing her to initiate a process to establish a legal frame work for the Guild tuition trust fund. The frame work shall guide on who and how they exactly access the funds.
“The legal process is to establish a correct way in which the fund is to be operated transparently and with clear responsibilities for each stakeholder. It is also meant to guide our students on how to access the funds, qualification for them and how the Trust is operated,” she said in a statement.
As the justice minister continues to work on the legal frame work, today March 6th, 2023 Margaret Nattabi officially launched the donate 1000 campaign. The campaign is aimed at soliciting funds that the fund shall begin with when legally incepted.
The donate 1000 campaign will be run by class representatives at different colleges who shall register and declare all funds collected to their class members for purposes of accountability. The funds shall then be merged and a total sum shall be declared by the office of the vice president.
Nattabi believes that with a legal frame work in place, the tuition trust fund shall be able to serve it purpose and save the hundreds of Makerereans that drop out of school due to lack of tuition.
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