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For many people today, saving money is a helpful way to put some money away that they might need in the future for an emergency or to pay for a goal they have had, such as furthering their studies or building their house. However, saving on your own is not as easy to do. It takes discipline and commitment.

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“I genuinely love all the changes around campus, especially the pavers. My favourite area is around Bishop Tucker, which is really pleasing to the eye,” said Michelle Lubogo, a second-year law student.

His radiance is hard to miss. Bubbly and so full of life, a young man with dreams the size of a truck. Though Somali by descent, he hasn’t let borders confine his pursuit for knowledge. He has decided to transcend boundaries. 

This insatiable desire to build personal competence has landed him in Mukono and he is upbeat. “Uganda is an organized country, the education system in Uganda is well-developed, and I believed it would provide me with the right skills and knowledge,” he tells me as he smiles.

Aturinda recalls the first rugby game he watched in 2011, in his senior year. “When the school team was training, one of the players knocked someone, and they even bled,” he said. “I swore never to play rugby in my life.”

A display of national and international moot competition trophies and certificates, Fulbright scholars, and visiting professors to Uganda Christian University’s (UCU) school of law justifies the many law alumni thriving on the national and international scene.

A 2007 incident in the family of Jethro Odoi Okoth was the impetus for a medicine career choice for Odoi, now age 23 and a year away from becoming a doctor. Odoi, then a teenager, saw his younger brother suffer a fractured skull, necessitating surgery in a country where neurosurgeons are scarce.