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  • Adopt a culture of saving

    “How I wished I got the knowledge before completing school, am sure savings from my pocket money would have done something for me at the moment. I wasted money. But, as they say: better late than never,” wrote Mercy Acen This is after participating in the first module, “Understanding Poverty in Rural Uganda” of the…

  • Dr. Catherine Anena, a great daughter of Northern Uganda rests

    Dr. Catherine Anena, PhD, was a fun-loving person; a selfless and an inspirational leader. A glimpse of who she was can be gleaned from her FAVORITE QUOTES as she shared them on her Facebook wall: “The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you.” “Never let yesterday’s…

  • Sarah Amongin joined mentoring programme

    We are delighted to formally welcome Sarah Amongin onto our project: “Mentoring Young Adults into Innovators against Poverty.” She effectively begun her journey with us in March 2021. Sarah’s stated personal objective, according to her curriculum vitae, is: “Working together with other hard working persons for better results and with the mission of achieving targeted goals.” Sarah…

  • Youth miscategorized unemployed & exploited

    Most people in Uganda, our parents inclusive, think having a salaried job is the only relevant thing to have after finishing school.   I give myself as an example. After school, I used to help my dad with legal advice for making decisions in his company, but I wasn’t even appreciated. He could ask me…

  • Uganda National Household Survey 2019/20 Summary

    UBOS released the 2019/20 National Household Survey report. In summary, this is Uganda today: Source: UBOS (2021) as published on Ramathan Ggoobi’s Facebook wall.

  • There is need for new vocabulary to describe Ugandan youth

    The way youth in Uganda are talked about, there are certain categories that emerge. “Well if people don’t have salaried work, they are idle, or they are unemployed,” it is often asserted. If you ask somebody in the place that I work in Eastern Uganda about youth schemes, they will say: “the thing just collapsed…

  • What is the meaning of success?

    “Today I feel a bit dizzy and tired, maybe because of the previous fun-filled Saturday. I woke up very early, to prepare for my 9 o’clock service at St. Francis. The preacher continues his series on the topic: “the fear of the lord” and today he tackles the subject of “the meaning of success”. He…

  • Jobs will not find you watching TV

    I always tell youth who are still at the university not to expect white-collar jobs immediately after graduation. I always emphasise to them how I graduated and I was all expectant that I could only sit at home to watch TV thinking that I was going to get a white-collar job soon. I refused to…

  • Are peer group outings beneficial?

    It’s an outing for the members of my former Christian Fellowship, which is taking its freshers to the beach for fun as a welcome gesture. The fee is shs 6,000 and I want to go but do not have it. After talking to “papa” (the fellowship leader), I am allowed to go. Mr. Bernard Sabiti…

  • Industrious youth wrongly categorized as ‘unemployed’

    After My Senior Six vacation in 2018, I was admitted to study clinical medicine at Gulu School of Clinical Officers and the excitement was much. Unfortunately, it did not happen as per my expectations. So, that year, I never went back to school, life wasn’t easy. My ambition was to get a job. In my…