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Tag: Mentoring

  • Fundraising to give welding apprenticeships to youth

    Fundraising to give welding apprenticeships to youth

    Little acts of kindness can make a BIG difference. That’s what GlobalGiving’s Little by Little campaign is all about! From TODAY, Monday,  3rd April 2023 until Good Friday, 7th April 2023, give up to $50 (about Ugx. 190,000) and receive a 50 percent match on your donation. As in if you give: We ask you…

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  • Life is just like a menu from a hotel

    Life is just like a menu from a hotel

    “Sometimes, when I look back, I can only see thousands of tears which I poured during my struggle to get myself where I am today. It only takes determination, sacrifice and real, real commitment for someone to breakout from the silence of a village like Ocelakur. One thing I have discovered is that, life is just like a menu from…

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  • The development assistance that Pallisa needs

    The development assistance that Pallisa needs

    We would welcome 100 percent interventions that come to Pallisa to do empirical research in Pallisa for Pallisa. The doctor will assess you and will send you to the lab to conduct that test to know what he is treating. For us in Pallisa we are treating something we don’t know. Is that allowed, to…

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  • Leave job correctly – technically, legally & morally

    Leave job correctly – technically, legally & morally

    Dear Innovators under my mentorship, “YOUR NOTICE PERIOD WHEN RESIGNING,” is an article that contains great advice for some of you who are conflicted for you are forced to demonstrate that you have resigned. The important lesson to be learned is that a resignation is a negotiated processes between you, the employee and your employer;…

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  • Training exercise – are educated people idle?

    Training exercise – are educated people idle?

    In village settings, those who have attained a certain level of education are always seen as being organized in the way that they participate in doing most of community activities. And they can voluntarily take lead or else they are appointed in taking lead. For example, they are always given a role to be secretaries…

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  • Training exercise – lazy ‘money-minded’ youth

    Training exercise – lazy ‘money-minded’ youth

    Some youth these days are living a disorderly and an idle way. In a way that some youth don’t want to do work that takes long for them to earn money. For example, they only know “hand to month,” but digging or doing other economic activities are hard. You find someone selling land to buy…

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  • Training exercise – does education widen thinking?

    Training exercise – does education widen thinking?

    If I look back at some of our parents and grandparents who never went through formal education yet they were smart with organized minds. If our grandparents, for example, didn’t have an organised mind, we wouldn’t be where we are now. But they were organized in the way they brought up our mums and dads.…

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  • Norah Owaraga lecture on youth in political processes

    Norah Owaraga lecture on youth in political processes

    On invitation from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), as part of the activities for their SPACE Project Accountability Week, in Gulu District, on the morning of 7th February 2022, our Managing Director, Ms. Norah Owaraga, delivered a “University lecture on the importance of youth participation in political processes.” Our media team was on sight and video…

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  • Are internships in Uganda becoming meaningless?

    Are internships in Uganda becoming meaningless?

    “I didn’t get to do the practical part even during internship. I thought maybe finally there was going to be practical, but sincerely our work as interns there was to sit and observe what would take place in a court room, without any participation. And maybe sending us around offices and arranging files. It looked…

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  • Young people get lost after university

    Young people get lost after university

    “It’s a reality we have to deal with. Many young people get lost when they leave university, because they enter in another world. We will continue to engage universities but we should also do something to mentor those out to give them directions. I appreciate the “Mentoring Young Adults into Innovators Against Poverty” project by…

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