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The awards recognize the company’s innovative fruit shelving technology that leverages nanotechnology to combat post-harvest losses. In a world struggling with food security challenges, the innovation, which preserves fruits and vegetables by releasing a safe organic formulation extending shelf life by 30 days, offers hope and demonstrates the power of homegrown solutions. 

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

One would say technology was his “thing,” but no. Even after mastering such a skill, Muchwa still felt like something was lacking. “It was all not satisfactory,” he said. He continued to figure out where his heart was.

Many students, including those pursuing business-related courses at Uganda Christian University (UCU), have been graduating from the institution into a world of job-hunting. But  that trajectory may be reversed if a collaboration plan involving UCU and the Dutch-based, Hanze University of Applied Sciences is achieved.

Uganda Christian University (UCU) has added a new guesthouse to its collection of hospitality facilities. The Kingdom View Guest House, located on Besania Hill, Mukono, was acquired as a ministry donation from The Rock Kingdom LTD (UG), funded by The Rock Outreach (USA) late 2022. The guesthouse, completed in 2016, becomes the university’s fifth hospitality facility, but the first outside the precincts of UCU’s main campus. The other four guesthouses — Eunice, Garry, Missionary House and Tech Park Units — are within the university. 

“Usually the big boys would give us a run for our money, but I made a tackle on this one guy, and people started screaming. I was the talk of that night’s prep,” he said with a smile. “It was exhilarating.”

As a child, Juliet Sekabunga Nalwanga was fascinated whenever she saw tellers in banks with bundles of cash. As such, she made up her mind to work in a bank. However, as she grew up, she realized that the money saved there was not actually theirs. She started feeling the pull to save human life instead. She opted for a career in medicine.