“I started my journey from Nakapiripirit and boarded a taxi to connect to Soroti. When I reached Soroti I was so excited to reach Lira City so that I would catch up with classes. As I was waiting to connect to a Lira bound taxi, a certain broker deceived me that going to Lira costs Ug. Shs. 20,000 yet it was Ug. Shs. 12,000, I got to know after I had already paid him and he had disappeared. I was so disappointed. Never the less, despite of the of the disappointment and the long journey, I arrived Lira City at around 6.00 p.m. I boarded a boda boda (motorbike taxi) that brought me to CPAR Uganda. I knocked on the red painted gate, mama Catherine welcomed me and ushered me inside the compound…,” writes Osekeny.

He writes of his journey to the CPAR Youth Media Training, which started last month, November 2025, training youth, such as he into Media Change Agent who are skilled behavioral change communicators.

Four weeks of intensive residential training later, from 1st December 2025, he embarks on the second part of his training journey – fieldwork. Applying and practicing lessons learned for the benefit of the community among which he lives.

His exciting human development journey would have not been possible without the generous legacy grant from kin of late Dr. Paul Hargrave via Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR).

CLICK HERE to learn more about our Dr. Paul Hargrave Memorial Centre Human Development Project, jointly implemented by CPAR and CPAR Uganda.

Watch this space for up-dates on his learning journey, while at the same time he stimulates positive change for the greater good of the wider community in which he lives in Northern Uganda.