20 Oct
Resilience Program: How Mukunzi overcame her fear ...
When Alana Mukunzi took time off her finance job to take care of an ailing family member, she began thinking of what to do for a living in the meantime. As she saw a truck painted with various species of mushrooms, the
12 Aug
How A Young Refugee is Positively Influencing His ...
Before Issa Mwamba Patrick left his homeland the Democratic Republic of Congo to seek refugee, he was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Development Studies at the university. The political instability in DRC forced him to flee in 2017 to Uganda
08 Jul
The Bootcamp Creating Coding Queens
For a while, Jane Masawi nursed the dream of a career in coding. Even as she pursued a degree in business computing which despite its name, offered no meaningful programming training, she didn’t give up. Opportunity knocked for her to
05 Jul
The Innovation Village Mbarara: One Year Of Accele...
The story of The Innovation Village Mbarara begins in an unconventional way. It is the quintessential story of a rose that grew through the concrete given the circumstances of 2020, a year that is marked by an unprecedented havoc-wrecking pandemic
29 Jun
How A Business Foundations Course Is Transforming ...
With a heart for entrepreneurship, Augustine Busimba always thought that the most important thing to have for any aspiring entrepreneur is a business plan. This changed instantly after attending the two-day Business Foundations Course at The Innovation Village. “I asked
23 Jun
Creating An Empowered Youthful Population With The...
When The Mastercard Foundation launched its Young Africa Works strategy in Uganda in July 2020, it was met with a lot of anticipation about how transformative it would be in the area of youth employment. As a nation, Uganda has
07 Jun
Afro Health Connect makes big strides in access to...
The quality of care and access to health care services in Uganda has remained wanting for years now. Take for instance the fact that a total of 1,192 maternal deaths and 28,174 perinatal deaths were recorded according to the Annual
31 May
Bitum Is Reviving His Dreams Through Tukole
Even though Steven Bitum is clad in a green Tukole Uniform in a corner of The Innovation Village all day, his occupations switch through the day. A cleaner by day and an enrolled University student in between the cleaning breaks,
24 May
Fellowship Program yields fresh prospects for youn...
The path of a fresh Ugandan graduate can be reinvented this way. You leave university with your qualifications and instead of walking the streets in search of employment, you are ushered into a dynamic company that builds onto the hard
11 May
UPSKILL Creating Uganda’s Next Unique Workfo...
If there is one thing that the pandemic has shown the world, it is that employment is undergoing a rapid change and that there is a need to adjust accordingly to this future that is nigh. The migration of jobs
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