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KAMPALA, UGANDA CONVENTION COMMUNIQUE 3rd December 2012 I) PREAMBLE We the over 1000 people of Uganda, having met on 3rd December 2012, from various walks of life including the youth, women, business community, persons with disability, media, political leaders, religious leaders and Non-Governmental organizations, met in Kampala, Uganda to discuss the most pressing challenges and creative solutions to fighting theft of public funds. Since the first Anti-Corruption Convention that was held on 8th December, 2011, Uganda has lost not less than 1.3 trillion shillings resulting into a situation of deplorable health services across the country, ill facilitated educational infrastructure, spiraling poverty levels, growing unemployment, ethnic tensions, land grabbing, declining fortunes of agriculture, environmental degradation. Aware that the unraveling theft in the office of the Prime Minister, Public Service, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Local Government, M...

They are men and women of valor They have a conviction they can die for They wait not for a decree to sacrifice They have no enemies as ling as they get help They surrender not and retreat not Achievers;they are called by their lives People of their own world A world where the fugitive tread not Where no one without scars appear The place of harvesting the seed sown Onlookers call it a divine blessing Not knowing the thin and thick The journey's demands and threats The many moments of sweat and pain The actual cost of climbing the ladder May they inspire the dead world Where non-actors sleep in confinement The world of the sluggard and vision less Without a voice to end the barrenness That has kept us in the unfair balance. GEOFFREY N.NSUBUGA Dedication to all the Alumni of Forum for Women in Democracy.

Fellow Citizens of Uganda: The President of Uganda, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has over the years publically condemned corruption and promised zero tolerance to theft in public offices. This was supposed to be exemplified through the setup of the Anti-Corruption Court and the National Strategy to fight Corruption, the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity in the President’s Office, among other institutions put in place to fight corruption. What has emerged is that, we have too many institutions and yet we see no concrete action on corruption. Uganda’s children continue to die of malaria, malnutrition, nodding disease and many other preventable diseases while our leaders and technocrats shamelessly loot with greed the money meant to provide medicine for our children. Our teachers sleep hungry and our children have no lunch at school, our policemen sleep like dogs and are paid peanuts, our doctors, nurses and midwives are underpaid, unpaid and on str...

While the state remains focused on entrenching and sustaining one individual,the Youth pay the price for this. That's why our defense budget receives the largest allocation (over 40%) while very little goes to critical Sectors that are important for Job Creation and development of Youth like Education (now at 14% of the budget) and health which you remember too well. The high cost of maintaining a leader is the reason the state can not find resources to help and change the situation of Young people. The state of Young people in Uganda today (85% unemployment,25% completion rate in U.P.E schools, very poor access or no timely access to health care is as a direct result of increasingly conflicting National and Individual Interests.

Childhood A time when all are available, possible, loving, smiles is the language and expectations from the whole bores Childhood Where humbleness, openness, fear covered, innocence realized, A time where even the little of the littlest peace of eatables Is , a pleasure when another person accepts from you as an offer. A time where all languages, care, attitudes, races, skin color, superiority, inferiority, privileges, praises on almighty from whatever corner of pegs are humbled onto the childhood protection.

At a time when even the employed are feeling the not-so-pleasant pinches of the hard economic times, the skyrocketing rise in unemployment levels is a disastrous puzzle that has defied all attempts muscled to solve it. The resultant situation is simply horrific. According to a study published in Social Indicator Research, even those who tend to be optimistic find it difficult to look on the bright side of things when unemployed. Among the many stakeholders brainstorming on practical means of addressing unemployment are the Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) companies. As their suggested version of the solution to this quandary, MLM companies also synonymously referred to as Network Marketing, have through their independent distribution networks, risen to the occasion to suggest that the unemployed youth can and should take advantage of MLM to realize their dreams. All one needs to do, they say, is to sign up on their respective programs and a windfall of unlimited prospects will abound. ...

EKAKS THE LAD: lets be realistic : we have all seen injustice, we have all applied injustice to some extent and all of us must have faced injustice some where some how. but t...

Our leaders who art in offices Cleansed be thy record Thy promises come Thy integrity be resurrected in you As it should, in all others, Give us this day our daily services And forgive us our constant urge for you to work As we forgive many of thy faults Lead us not into noisy conflicts But deliver us from the biting poverty For thine is the allowance, the salary and the responsibility Now and times to come Hope so!   (c) Samuel Amutuhaire Bakutana , Alumnus 2008 .

For God our country For God our life For God our universe Life that comes in a whole,wholly in holiness. A life that if given elaborates,only mice can wrestle for dejection. Kakoma, in luo 'ka-koma' to mean my body, A lament of pity upon self. A man who did not only amassed shame to the face of agents of national lies, Uncovered disguise of the propagandist

Background of the disease: A disease only known by many as “Nodding disease” was first reported by the Acholi parliamentary group to parliament to the then Minister of Health in 2004. However it was not called the nodding disease, it was referred to as the “strange disease”. It has since emerged that the report on the strange disease reached to the Ministry of health in 2009 according to the current Director General Health Services Dr. Jane Achieng. The cultural belief on the causes of the diseases: Witch craft and evil spirits Relief food that had pieces of  broken bottles and the chemically treated beans meant for agriculture that people ate due to hunger Bombs used during the war Epilepsy Dirty water from the wells/springs and bites from Black flies (mostly found along the water/river banks) Trauma due to the war Eating of the Bush meat. All in all the signs and symptoms are observed when a child is ...

Anthony Mugabira delivering amessage to leaders   Dear leaders, in church, Politics, NGOs, Tradition and other institutions!! We are happy for all that you do for this country, we love all your noble contributions; you are worthy of appreciation. We like the way you love our country, which is by buying luxurious vehicles for your comfortable travel along the badly potholed roads; you only reach out to us on independence, commemoration and burial days. We are humbled by the pathetic social state of our motherland which is on the brink of total

What does it mean to mentor a leader? Mentoring a leader is the art of: Giving her help and advice over a period of time and often teaching her how to lead. Guiding her to draw a mental picture of her as a leader and consistently helping her to see it grow to maturity. Consistently giving help to a leader to help her improve their skill of leadership and grow to greater heights. Who is a leader