My Change Maker strategy started way back during my primary education level when I attended a rural school where most of the children were coming from peasant poor families. Life in a rural school was so measurable and I will never forget all about it. Due to the stated experience, I wanted much to have something done for the children in my community but I had no resources to fulfill my vision. That never scared me much so I used what I had and that was the knowledge I had acquired from school. I volunteered to teach poor children in my community who lacked teachers, room to study from, and scholastic materials among others. Classes were conducted mostly under tree shades and it was not really comfortable for the children as you can have a look at this link http://bix.yahoo.com/profile/rob_kib
I felt that what I had done was not enough so I thought of applying my computer skills to help to show the world how miserable children in my community were living in. In 2007, I participated in the bix competition and though I could not win the prize due to lack of appropriate technologies, some people like Pamela Smith and Jim Family appreciated my efforts and they went ahead to solicit for scholastic materials which I did distribute to all children in Kikandwa Primary school as you can have a look at this link www.krcdevorg.weebly.com
In 2007 I introduced beekeeping project in the village to help community people learn how to keep bees for economic development and raising up income to support their children in schools. Further more, I have compiled a proposal to establish a primary school which can offer free education to all children in well-structured environment. My vision is to have at least two children from each family in the village introduced to good education right from childhood which can be a good foundation for their future education progress. I believe that if two children from each family are given good education then they can help their respective families for future development thus terminating the poverty cycle.
Most of the time, I feel connected to rural community people with problems and always feel like extending a hand of help whenever I can. My contributions are mainly focused on rural communities because most of the poor people yet more productive live in villages. They are more productive because they mainly engage in Agriculture where everyone feeds from. They are very poor because no one cares to give the right price to their goods and services. So, they are poor not because they don’t work but they are just cheated. Now that land is becoming an issue in Uganda and Africa in general, rural community people are getting displace day and night unlawfully by the rich and this makes me feel very bad because the only valuable asset they have is land. So, engaging them in active policy or project designing, developing, monitoring, evaluation and advocacy and extending basic education in a number of important issues concerning their rights is very important.
Free education for all children in rural communities in well-structured environment. My target is to have at least two (2) children from every family in rural community introduced to good education with the aim of terminating the poverty cycle in poor rural community families.
Professional experience
? July 2006 up to date- serving as Executive Director/ head of Information and Communication Department of Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization.
? November 2007 up to date Representing World Campus International www.worldcampus.org in Africa.
? July 2008 up to date acting as African Regional Director for African Ball and Community Development (ABACODE) (www.abacode.org)
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? June 2006 up to date training at Soil, plant and water analytical laboratory, Soil Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University.
? 03 Feb 2007 up to date- part timing as a Micro Biologist on Below Ground Biodiversity Project at Makerere University.
? May 2003- May 2006 Trained and Worked with Mission Harvest Ministries Africa as system administrator/ instructor/ volunteer on ICT4Schools & Community Project.
? 2001-Trained in soil science analytical Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University.
Community activities and workshops/seminars attended
? 04-07 Feb 2009 participated, presented a paper and led up a panel on Refugee Life and Internally Displaced People during WCHS (www.humanitarianstudies2009.org) in Groningen The Netherlands.
? 12th to 14th November 2008 Contributed a paper on Information Production with Satellite Receivers in Rural Communities of Africa during the 6th International Conference on Open Access held in Lilongwe Malawi www.wideopenaccess.net
? 26-31 October 2008 participated and presented a poster on Commercial Algae Farming for sustainable energy and Carbon free environment during CTA Annual International Seminar (Implication of climate change for sustainable agricultural production systems) held in Ouagadougou Bukina Faso.
? 1-5 September 2008, attended a training workshop in Accra Ghana in Agricultural Information Production with Satellite Receivers Organised and sponsored by CTA (www.cta.int)
? July 20 – October 15, 2007 Attended World Campus-Japan Program (Global Education Program www.worldcampus.org) which covered: Peace and Conflict Studies, Education Systems, Social Welfare, Japan and the Western World, Environment and Discrimination/ Valuing Human Life, Leadership Styles, World Religions, Corporate Social Responsibity, International Business and Immigration, Urban Renewal, Schools and Communities.
? 2-7 March 2008, Participated in First Global Forum on Human Resources For Health at Speak Resort Hotel in Kampala Uganda organised by Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organisation, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland; Tel: +41-22-791-1616; Fax: +41-22-791-4841; E-Mail: ghwa@who.int
? 29 November to 30 November 2007 Training workshop on Information and Communication Infrastructures for Rural Areas in African Countries Nairobi, Kenya organised by International Centre for Science and High Technology (ICS) and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO).
? 07th October 2007 attended Global Festa Japan 2007 in Hibiya Park Tokyo Japan. Tel: 03-5434-8247 Fax: 03-5434-8697
? E-Mail: gfesta@ns.jic.co.jp
? World Information Society Day 17th May 2007 Public Dialogue & ICT4D Expo at Hotel Africana, Organised by Uganda Communication Commission, UNDP, Uganda ICT Ministry, I – Network-
