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Namutebi credits her internship for sharpening her time management and storytelling skills. “I learned how to package stories under tight timelines and how to interact with professionals in the field. It’s an experience that gave me confidence and clarity about my career goals,” she says.

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In her speech at the 2024 National Safe Motherhood Conference, Dr Chamberlain-Froese said that most efforts at communication on maternal health were targeted towards adults. Speaking on the importance of individuals, she noted that adolescents are a large part of Uganda’s population and are often most likely affected by the issues STM seeks to solve. For messaging to ignore them is a huge disservice. 

“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.

In 2017, when Bazibu Magidu had completed his S4, his mother told him that she could no longer afford his school fees. “She told me she had done her part and it was now my journey,” he said.

Vincent Kisenyi, the dean of the School of Business, was asked by the university administration to move the school to Ankrah. He expressed his gratitude that the school would have enough space to house all the activities of the school.