This year, mental health services were added to the health awareness week’s activities to increase awareness. 

Following a recently signed partnership agreement between Uganda Christian University (UCU) Vice Chancellor, Prof. Aaron Mushengyezi, and Graham Yoko, the CEO of the Accelerated Education Enterprise (AEE) in Durban, South Africa,

Ugandan-Dutch journalist and director Michiel van Oosterhout takes us back to the turbulent 70s through the music documentary film Bwana Jogoo: The Ballad of Jessy Gitta. The major subject of the film is Jessy Gitta Kasirivu, a charismatic musician who was in a love triangle with Idi Amin Dada and Sarah Kyolaba-a queen dancer. 

“As you nurture yourself, family and friends spiritually, it is important for us to remember that the purposes we have need a healthy body.”

Uganda is a tale of natural beauty and environmental struggle, from the verdant shores of Lake Victoria to the busy streets of Kampala. Despite all these attributes, a hidden but ubiquitous menace looms large amid the nation’s rapid economic and urbanization growth: pollution from plastic waste.