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Students conduct workshops during January’s school break.

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

We train our students to be leaders: to see a problem and do something about it. Sanyu saw that our new students were shy and reluctant to speak up. So she enlisted the help of other students and ran a public speaking workshop for our dozen new students.

Many of our student-leadera held workshops and tutored their peers to help them perform better in school:

• Six of our high school students held workshops.

• 7th grader Amos conducted a workshop for primary students.

• Twenty students tutored and mentored younger students.

• Katongole held a workshop on getting into university.

• Moses won a scholarship to attend a leadership seminar in India.

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Emails from Moses in India

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Hi Dad, My school- is a very good school. I like it because there are a lot of students from different places especially Asians. It makes me feel good to be one of the pioneer African students at school. My roommates is a Ugandan who a got a scholarship too. There are also students from South Africa and the Ivory Coast. The food is too spicey but I am kinda of getting used to it. Though when I first arrived, I hardly ate.

II enjoy electronics class. I managed to get a third position in a group discussion which was organised on science day celebrations at school. I also got selected on the school basketball team, thanks to Brian Moll who used to teach me while we played against each other.

What i like about india is that there is a high rate of infrastructure development.  A lot is lacking in Uganda.  Our generation must work on these things in the next five years. This is what Uganda must do to attain a rate of development equivalent to countries like India, which were once third world but are now advancing:

• empower women,
• invest in education,
• encourage investments through offering incentives,
• offer help to NGOs like L.E.A.D Uganda

People in india are hardworking. I guarantee you in the next 20 years India is going to have a strong economy which will see its GDP rise more than that of America.

I had never seen women engineers who work on building sites but I was astonished when I noticed that in india actually they might be more than the men. There is no job discrimination. In fact most of the lecturers at our school are women

Thank you for laying a foundation for me. It is now up to me to build on it.

Moses

Hi, Dad
Here is my academic progress report for the mid-semester exams. I was ranked best in the class.
Moses
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Hi, Scholarships were awarded last semester to the most outstanding students who displayed leadership potential. I was the best in my class last so iIwas chosen. Professors are coming from the USA to teach the workshop. One of them is an advisor and consultant to over 53 internation companies on matters relating to leadership and development issues so am really happy and proud of myself that I was picked.
lots of love
moses
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Dad, I want to conduct a five day leadership and organization development program with 5 LEAD Uganda students when I come home on break.This will motivate them and they will probably learn a lot from this as I did. This could be the begining of something new in the program. As the program’s motive is to create FUTURE leaders this will really be a big oppurtunity.I can’t wait to conduct this workshop.
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Hi Dad, i wanted to inform that I am really happy that i am here in India and do not regret ever coming here.Its the best place to pursue my career in software engineering and programing. Thank you for your encouragement. I am really happy. I just feel even though you are not near me, with your words, I just feel I am complete. Dad you can always count on me and I will never disappoint you.
Moses

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