How to form a NASWU branch:
The process of starting a branch involves a voluntary offer of a Social Worker who works in any district out of Kampala to organize others in one or more districts to start a branch. NASWU will send such a person a copy of our Constitution. The interested persons in the area hold meetings and usually elect a steering committee. They also work out strategies to reach other Social Workers in the area. The steering Committee can invite a representative of the National Executive Committee to visit them and share more information and encouragement. Later, the branch may write formally to NEC requesting approval to operate as a branch. NEC will consider the request and once approved, will issue a warrant formally establishing the branch.

Proposed: NASWU Kigezi Branch

Over the last few months, under the initiative and able leadership of Lydia Komugisha, the proposed Kigezi branch has mobilized Social Workers in Kabale and held several meetings. The proposed branch has elected a Steering Committee and appointed a patron (who sadly, passed recently – see tribute below). The President NASWU National Executive Committee visited the proposed branch in June 2009, had a meeting with some of its members and also met their patron at Kabale University. Consequently, the proposed NASWU Kigezi branch has applied for approval as a NASWU branch under Article 14 of the NASWU Constitution.

Tribute :

(The Late) Prof. Joy Kyamunyogonya, (former) Professor of Social Work, Uganda Christian University, Bishop Barham Campus, Kabale (Seated) and Lydia Komugisha, Chairperson NASWU Kigezi Branch (standing).

NASWU announces with sorrow, the passing of Prof. Joy Kyamunyogonya, who was lecturing in Social Work at Uganda Christian University, Bishop Barham Campus, Kabale where she also started a Master's in Social Work Program.

Prof. Kyamunyogonya was instrumental in the starting of the proposed NASWU Kigezi branch, of which she was patron. She was also one of the poineers of Social Work degree Course at Makerere University.

She will be greatly missed by all the members of NASWU Kigezi branch and the entire Social Work fraternity in Uganda. May her soul rest in eternal peace.