My First Scout Uniform

Byamukama Rogers of Buganda Road Primary School had always had the compelling desire to acquire a Scout uniform to be smart like his fellow Scouts and participate in activities like hoisting the flag and even public duties which would ordinarily require one to be in Scout uniform.

Rather than go the easy way of asking his parents to buy the uniform for him, he decided to put what he had always learnt in Scouting in practice. That is to always earn every single coin. He had seen this from elder Scouts participating in annual Scout job week to raise funds.

He requested to handle some chores over the school holidays to raise enough money to buy his first ever Scout uniform. In this regard, he washed his father’s car on twelve occasions and this earned him 63,000 Uganda shillings which, is the amount he needed for the uniform.

Rodgers decided to share his story so as to inspire other Scouts around the world that it is possible to work your way towards a Scout uniform or any other thing you need. He concludes that he was just being a good Scout.