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Faith In Motion: The Full Story

Akright City to Rwembyo, Kasese — 13 walking days, 19 calendar days, one church funded by footsteps. Told exactly as Mbanda Shyaka wrote it, day by day.

345KM Target
400+KM Walked
13Walking Days
19Calendar Days
414MUGX Church Target
The Route

Akright City → Rwembyo

Real waypoints named in Shyaka's own updates, connected here for reference. Small trading-centre coordinates are best-effort approximations — road distance always runs a bit longer than the straight lines shown.

Day By Day

The Journal

After The Walk

What Happened Next

Sponsor The Journey

The Walk Is Done. The Church Isn't Finished Yet.

St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Rwembyo, is built one step at a time — literally. Every one of the roughly 74 centimetres Shyaka covered on the road corresponds to a UGX 1,000 unit of the fundraising target. Choose how much of the road you want to own:

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Sponsor A Step
UGX 1,000
The base unit — and your entry into the Prayer Book. Write your intention and it travels the rest of the road with him.
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Sponsor A Leg
≈ UGX 35–41M
One full day's stretch (≈30–35km, town to town) — sized for a company, church group or family giving together.

Kilometre and leg prices are calculated, not invented — the per-step rate multiplied by the steps that stretch of road actually took, so the numbers stay honest as the record improves.

The Church Still Needs You

The community's fundraising target for St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Rwembyo, is UGX 414 million. Every contribution — however small — is still counted, exactly like the UGX 500 notes dropped into the collection bowls at Kiburara. Recent momentum includes a pledged in-kind gift of 100 iron roofing sheets for the church from the Mbusa John Tumwesige family.

📱 MTN/Airtel Money: +256 757 112 376 (Mbanda Shyaka)
More Ways To Give →

Giving through Shyaka's own channels above is what lets his community see the impact of their own support. St. Joseph's Parish Construction Committee also runs its own official campaign tracker with a step-by-step claiming ledger — ask via the contacts on this page if you'd like those details instead.