Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye

I love my dream world-i am so passionate about it...i think about it ..work through it...live it ...and fantasise it.... i pray through it_my dream world shapes my personality...I love it-it sets my standards in all aspects of my life My Late Mother Keku, my biggest inspiration, used to say a person who doesn't appreciate greatness and extraodinary is a no dreamer...the bigger your dreams the bigger your devine portion in life...settling for the obvious is accepting to be secondary in life and conclusively choosing to be an option not a priority in life Those are heavy statements Mum engraved into my heart, I fear being an option, being secondary and dreaming small for I will be a disappointment to Mum. I am a dreamer, I don't care who doesnt believe, understand or cheerish my dreams..they are my dreams- my portion in life..personal Colin Powel says:- A dream doesn't become reality through magic, it takes sweat, determination & hardwork For a drea...

By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye The pangs of a poor city child are never ending; the child doesn’t know the true meaning of being a child. The poor city child in Kampala knows no right to play, no right to learn from mistakes, no right to be forced into mid-afternoon sleep- the child literally crosses from being a baby into maturity.   The Kampala poor child earns the food, the clothes, health care, school fees and everything that would look obvious. This is the child who dares all types of weather and all insecurity to earn his child hood. The poor child in Kampala knows no child mythical scare every child seems to go through during the innocent years- myths like:-Don’t cry or make noise at night the Night dancers will eat you…because making unnecessary noise at night is luxury to a poor city child Nakate (not her real name) is a poor city child, the first time I met her, was one of those wet cold evenings with heavy traffic jam in Kampala city. She was hawking sweet banana...

By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye Self-Esteem is self-respect, confidence in one's own worth, it is the overall sense of self-worth, it is about how much you appreciate and like yourself. It is often a result of personal appraisal of own-self, in terms beliefs, abilities, emotions, behaviors and so many other such attributes. Self-Esteem can be low or high depending on personal own appraisal. It is a key determinant on how one looks at life, appreciates success and failures, handles challenges and relationships- it is the underlying factor of ones personality Low Self-Esteem,often presents with Low Self confidence even in areas where you have high expertise and abilities, it is about criticizing your inner person negatively,creating the "I can't manage " Personality Always thinking the other person is better and deserves better than yourself Low self-Esteem makes you try so hard to please others when they never try at all to please you in return Low s...

By Nankwanga Eunice  Kasirye Liars don't have a life of their own, they trade self confidence for emptiness .Everyone lie you tell, comes with emptiness, takes away self esteem, steals your freedom of expression and turns you into a fool, a victim of your own lies. Lying is self enslavement, takes away your true personality turning you into an ambiguous low esteem person. The truth you tell immediately becomes part of your past, every lie you tell builds up burdens into your future-it makes you a miserable person, never sure of yourself but always thinking of the next lie to keep the previous lie_what a life! My personal standards are hinged on the belief that no one has a right to take away my freedom of self-worth by making me turn into a virtual personality to attain approval _Never! I tell the truth for my self not for the recipient of information... I am who I am, if you don't approve of the true me then you aren't looking for me in any form of...

Do something to STOP it "…..I was dosing seated on a bed breast-feeding one of the twins, when i felt a sharp slap on the head, opened my eyes and it was my husband , I thought he was slapping me because he always beats me whenever he is drank, But then I noticed blood was oozing from my head that is when I realized that he was cutting me with a Panga, he cut my right ear , cut the twin I was carrying in my right hand from head through to her stomach and then my hand, he moved on to the other twin and did the same, He went a ahead and hacked to death the four year old girl who was sleeping with me in the same bedroom and then he run away………." Florence Nabaterega from Mityana in Uganda, narrates the ghastly incidences of the night her husband cut off her hands , ear and killed three of their children over a bar challenge against his ability to father the twins she had just had a few months back The mother of nine now lives with one ear, half hands...

A tribute to my big brother-Moses Lugolole When people talk about HIV/AIDS after 2010, it is sounds like it is just some kind of sickness where one just has to take a test, be sure of the status and then start taking medication consistently and that is all- you live a positive life- But the HIV/AIDS I know is not the one of knowing your status and taking medication to live a positive life there after- It is the HIV/AIDS that meant one person being assumed or proved to be Positive meant the entire family, neighbors friends clan...name it carrying an equal burden of the Cross of the disease through STIGMA... My story with that painful HIV/AIDS AND STIGMA. .... When I was in primary seven 13 years of age it was really a tough time My big brother RIP Moses who was around 23 years of age then..was linked to HIV/AIDS through a wild village rumor- for his relationship with a young widow whose husband had been rumored to have died of AIDS I suffered a lot of pain for the r...

By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye The United Nations High Commission for Refuges UNHCR says South Sudan’s refugee crisis is now the world’s fastest growing putting Uganda and region in critical need of help Eight months after fresh violence erupted in South Sudan, a famine produced by the vicious combination of fighting and drought is now driving the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Total displacement from South Sudan into the surrounding region is now 1.6 million people. The rate of new displacement is alarming, representing an impossible burden on a region that is significantly poorer and which is fast running short of resources to cope. Refugees are fleeing into Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Central African Republic with almost half crossing into Uganda at a rate of 2,000 new arrivals daily. The influx peaked in February at more than 6,000 in a single day, In March, at more than 5,000 with the current daily average of over 2,800 arrivals...