Giving Stories Blog

Nelson Mandela once said, “education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” There are few places where this rings as true as it does in Mukozi, a small lakeside village in Kisoro, South West Uganda.

August 15th 2019 was an awesome and humbling birthday spent with the inmates of Ntenjeru Prison in Kayunga District. This was a follow up of a visit we had made on the 27t of July 2019 as part of our Uganda Christian Lawyers Fraternity (UCLF) Monthly Fellowship. During that first visit, our own John Osapiri ministered the love of Christ to the inmates and 18 of them gave their lives to Christ.

I remember, quite starkly, in my early days as a first-year student at Makerere University’s School of Law, we were settling in for an afternoon lecture when our attention was drawn to the podium at the front of the lecture room.

August 2019 saw the start of another semester at Makerere University (MUK) in Kampala, Uganda. Students from all walks of life flocked the university, to many, a dream come true. If you have been admitted to MUK, you probably can relate.