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Culture4 months ago

Baraka Performers is Helping Thousands of Children Trapped in Poverty Through Cultural Exchange And Creativity

With the mission to make sure that young people and the youth can archive education and a bright future through...

Unsung Heroes8 months ago

The Soroti Cricket Academy: Transforming Young Lives Through Sport

Africa9 months ago

This Organisation is continuously tailoring projects to save the girl child and support needy women in the Community

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Uganda Innovates1 year ago

Makerere University Students Build Computer from Scratch

Profiles2 years ago

Turning Rubbish into Money In The Fight Against Unemployment

Profiles2 years ago

How This Group of Young Men is Creating Employment Through Art and Craft

Profiles2 years ago

How Kasule Is Changing The Lives Of Children Of Prisoners One By One

Unsung Heroes9 months ago

Disability is not inability: Meet Aisha, a blind hair dresser

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Unsung Heroes9 months ago

Disability is not inability: Meet Aisha, a blind hair dresser

In a world full of uncertainties, Malengo Foundation is a living testimony through its Girl 50 50 project that no...

Plainly speaking10 months ago

The Alice Dora Foundation is committed to providing safe water to rural communities by providing boreholes

Health is a very great component of development. Unfortunately, in Uganda today, it’s still quite a struggle regardless of the...

Uganda Innovates1 year ago

Makerere University Students Build Computer from Scratch

BY MARVIN MUTYABA & ISAIAH NGABIRANO Computers today have become part of our lives that basically most of the things...

Women

Unsung Heroes2 years ago

How Kirabo is Empowering Youth To Turn Passion Into Professions

Meet Noeline Kirabo, a change agent and the founder of Kyusa, a non-profit organization that seeks to empower out of...

Unsung Heroes2 years ago

How Kakoma Is Creating A Generation Of Book Readers Right From The Grass Roots

Nyana Kakoma is the founder of Sooo Many Stories, a publishing house and online platform which allows Ugandan writers to...

Unsung Heroes2 years ago

This organisation is sensitizing communities living around the chimpanzee corridors on how to coexist together

Guest post by David Kangye* In 1990, four chimpanzees; Sunday, Masiko, Jim and Megan were sent from Uganda to Moscow...

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Profiles2 years ago

How This Group of Young Men is Creating Employment Through Art and Craft

BY MARVIN MUTYABA A group of 6 youths in Makindye has embarked on a life changing journey, turning their passions...

Profiles2 years ago

Turning Rubbish into Money In The Fight Against Unemployment

BY: MARVIN MUTYABA Meet Calvin Matovu, a twenty-five-year old graduate from Makerere University who recycles wastes and rubbish into charcoal....

Lifestyle2 years ago

Kalule is using visual art to link Ugandan youth with their role models

Meet Emmanuel Sekitto Kalule, one of the founders and Team Leader of Faces Up Uganda – a youth led organization...

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Poetry5 years ago

Sings Like a Crested Crane

The new Legion Behold, For I have seen a new legion That is black yellow red And sings like a crested Crane With elegance and versatility...
Profiles5 years ago

She is Armed Against Human Trafficking: Meet Uganda’s Daughter Agnes Igoye

Agnes Igoye is unstoppable. She has her sleeves rolled up to fight human trafficking in Uganda. Sadly, Ugandan children are trafficked within the country, as well...
Profiles5 years ago

Victor Ochen: The 33-Year-Old Ugandan Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

When he was in the middle of an Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP) camp, risking his life to burn charcoal to raise his school fees, mending...
Plainly speaking5 years ago

Uganda’s Raymond Besiga’s Pursuit of Social Justice through Technology

Raymond Besiga, a technologist, software engineer, an entrepreneur, a Global health corps alumnus is an agent of social change who is passionate about using technology for...