ELISHA BAGALWA

...In just three months of learning, I was surprised to see that I could be able to design a simple website and gain first knowledge of hosting it online. After 4 months, I started teaching myself the basics of JavaScript programming focusing on the front end. By now I feel like I am a front-end web developer and It’s my pleasure to let you know that Up With Africa has given me an internship.

AISHA TUMUKUNDE

...Living in Nakivale all this time has been the most challenging moment of my life due to so many factors and situations happening in the settlement, such as lack of water, lack of food at home, not having access to education and many other problems that I couldn’t even understand why they’re happening to us; all these issues led me (and other young girls) to get stressed almost everyday.

PETER BISIMWA

...After attending UWA and NTG Stress management training in 2023, I have been able to learn to use many techniques to help me feel better whenever I was stressed out. I learned how to integrate with other people to look for support feeling depressed and to support each other in the community. I also learned that sport is another way of reducing stress that I have started again playing football.

APPOLINE MUHUZA

...Having stress nearly every day is a very big problem to us because it keeps affecting our mental and physical health. I am so much grateful to UWA – Up With Africa together with New Talent for the Best Future for training us in Stress and Problem Management in Nakivale. By now I can be able to manage different stresses using the techniques we learnt in the training and I teach my family members.

JEREMIE NAJIKA

...Without UWA (Up With Africa), I wouldn’t complete any single term at school. I thank their leaders who come to our school to visit us, talking to my mother to understand which kind of support we would need especially for our education. The little support they provided was really helpful to I and my siblings to keep going to school for the year 2023.

MADAMA GRACE

...Before I use to think that using a computer is very hard that I need to reach university level to be able to use a computer, but our teacher (Tr. Justin) showed us that a computer works just like smartphones we are using, if we can be able to use a smartphone, it means that we can also use a computer because they both can receive data.

REBECCA AKILIMALI

...We studied Introduction to computer, how to use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher and Introduction to the internet. The program I enjoyed learning was Publisher because I love designs and I was excited to learn more of designing things using a computer – my dream is now to become a professional graphic designer.

SUDANESE WOMEN GROUP

Our work was not documented online before UWA trained us, we use to just write in books and only one/two person hard some knowledge of typing in MS Word and Excel. We are glad that we can now use Excel to create budgets and keep our files safe online. We also learned how to protect our data by creating strong passwords.

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