FMT in partnership with The Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT) brings you a Covid-19 “healer” from Uganda.

Children in Uganda were not able to study for the first three months of Uganda’s Covid-19 lockdown, as schools were shut to contain the spread of the deadly virus.

Thus, Nambooze Hadijah, a local potter, took time off from her pottery work every day at 4pm to teach children in her neighbourhood in Bweyogerere, near Kampala city.

Hadijah said that she needed to teach the children so that “they don’t forget what they learned before the lockdown.”

Her community is labelled as the “vulnerable urban poor”, as people there mostly sleep in makeshift structures along the railway.

Their main source of income comes from the sale of pottery objects, such as cooking pots, flower pots and charcoal stoves.

Business has been affected by the lockdown as there is no means of transporting the finished products to customers.

Nonetheless, the local government has been providing food relief of maize and beans to the area.

Naibi Turihohabwe is a Ugandan freelance photographer focusing on documenting daily life. View his portfolio here.

‘The Other Hundred Healers’ is an initiative by the non-profit organisation GIFT. The 240-page, full-colour, hardcover book can be purchased here at US$40 per copy for a minimum order of 20 copies.