The Paramount Chief of Lango is using a new fundraising event, the inaugural Won Nyaci Run, to gather resources for persons with disabilities in the sub-region, NTV Uganda reports. The campaign is aimed at providing essential mobility devices and opening up opportunities for more independent lives. The effort comes as Lango Sub-region records the highest disability prevalence in Uganda, at 17.4 percent against a national average of 13.2 percent, according to the broadcaster.
Why it matters
The figures cited by NTV Uganda place Lango ahead of every other part of the country on a measure that shapes access to schooling, work and everyday mobility. A disability prevalence rate of 17.4 percent means the sub-region carries a heavier share of need than the national picture suggests, and the Paramount Chief's decision to attach a public event to the issue gives it a visible platform.
The run is framed as a resource-mobilisation exercise rather than a one-off gesture. NTV Uganda reports that the funds raised are intended to cover mobility devices and to support persons with disabilities in living more independently — practical goals that sit at the centre of daily life for people who often face barriers getting to school, work or health services.
A life shaped by early loss of sight
The broadcaster's reporting centres on Edward Mansur, a 48-year-old man who lost his eyesight at the age of three in what NTV Uganda describes as a horrific act of violence. Mansur went on to pursue an education and build a future for himself despite that early loss.
His experience is presented as an illustration of the difficulties persons with disabilities encounter in the sub-region — and of what can be achieved when those difficulties are met with support. NTV Uganda uses his story to anchor the wider statistics, showing that the prevalence numbers translate into individual lives with their own trajectories.
The details of Mansur's education and the path he built are not elaborated in the reporting, and CYBEV.io has not added to them. What the broadcaster does make clear is that his case is offered as a reflection of the broader struggle, not as an exception to be marvelled at.
A sub-region's numbers in national context
The gap between Lango's 17.4 percent and the national average of 13.2 percent is the statistical backdrop to the Paramount Chief's campaign. NTV Uganda does not, in its reporting, break down the causes of that disparity or set out how the figures were compiled.
What the reporting does establish is the response: a run organised under the Won Nyaci name, with the Paramount Chief as the driving figure behind the mobilisation. The event is described as the first of its kind, though the broadcaster gives no date, route, fundraising target or list of partners.
CYBEV.io has likewise not been able to verify those operational details from the source material and has not supplied them.
What to watch
The immediate question is how much the inaugural Won Nyaci Run raises and how quickly mobility devices reach the people the campaign is meant to serve. NTV Uganda's reporting does not yet answer that, and the months ahead will show whether a single event can translate into sustained support for persons with disabilities across Lango Sub-region.
