Training

- We are involved in training teachers, parents, catechists and leaders in the Catholic Social Teaching (CST), in six parishes of the 19 dioceses of Uganda.
- Designing short booklets on the CST for parents and catechists.
- Designing a Manual on ethical values (cultural, social and religious) for S.S.S. teachers, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Sports.
- Planning meetings with teachers, together with the Ministry of Education, to present the new manual on ethical education, hopefully as part of the curriculum.


Research

- We have carried out the second  research on the cost of living in some of the ten slums of Kampala: Kampala Basic Needs Basket (KBNB).
- A research on the trafficking of minors in Kampala.
- We held a third Traditional Wisdom workshop to gather from the cultural representatives of all the main ethnic groups in Uganda their stories, proverbs, songs and other materials to deal with issues of justice, reconciliation and peace building issues in their own cultures.

Advocacy
- The  launchings of KBNB in each of the slums and the major ones to be launched by the Minister of Lands and Urban Development early October 2009. All in view of influencing policy makers.
- Publications by the staff of articles in the Daily Monitor newspaper.
- Open Forums for selected leaders groups on critical social issues.
- Radio programs on the CST and the currents events in Advent and Lent.
- Networking for lobbying with many NGO and JP groups.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The ethical-civic education manual will soon be published.
- Booklet: Kampala Basic Needs Basket, on the Relevance of the African    Synod to Uganda and the Calendar of 2010 are available at JPIIJPC and at St Paul’s bookshops.
- John Paul II Justice and Peace Centre is being registered as a legal entity.
- The building of JPIIJPC premises  is in progress. 
- We shall broadcast on Radio Maria a program called: The Social Gospel,        every Sunday of Advent from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm.
- There was a conference on Sustainable Justice, Peace and Reconciliation organised by the Inter-Religious Council of Churches and convened by the Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga from 10-12 Sept. 09.