Today, many universities have introduced initiatives intended to equip learners with practical skills. Uganda Christian University (UCU), for example, runs a university newspaper, The Standard, which helps journalism and communication students develop their writing, photography, and newspaper production skills.

Nine years ago, Beles Bubu Africa began in a single room inside a refugee community. There were no studios or big cameras, just a determination to tell stories that were missing from mainstream narratives.

Pamela was graceful and vibrant. Her warmth and charm quietly won the
admiration of many students, though no one openly said so. She carried herself
with simplicity, yet she was firm and disciplined in her work. After teaching us for a year, she moved on, and we no longer had her in class.

UCU lost three promising young women to separate road accidents. The deceased include Laurine Murungi and Britney Sarah Treasure who perished in an accident along Bweyogerere. Eye witnesses say a taxi that was trying to overtake lost control and knocked a boda which the two girls were on. Both the girls and the boda rider perished. A third student, Maria Angella Namirembe, was involved in an accident near Angels Nest Primary School

Former students of Uganda Christian University (UCU) mobilised and renovated the home of Mr. Ben Bella Illakut, in his ancestral village of Komolo, Aka Dot, Mukongoro Sub-county in Kumi District. Mr Illakut was a founding member of the Department of Mass Communication.

Behind the quiet walls of student hostels and university corridors, a silent reproductive health crisis is brewing. What is meant to be an emergency solution,  the morning-after pill, is increasingly being misused as a routine contraceptive among university students.