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Daniel “Lucky” Muhwezi
Daniel was born on 5th Feb 1981. A Congolese refugee,
Daniel is from Ishasha in the North Kivu region of
the Congo. He was awarded an Educate! scholarship
in 2004 and attended Sir Tito Winyi Secondary School
in Hoima, Uganda.
Due
to outstanding academic performance, Daniel received
a scholarship to pay for his tuition (Educate! pays
for the rest of his expenses) from an NGO called HPCT.
HPCT receives a contract from the UNHCR (the UN's
refugee agency) to promote educational progress in
Ugandan refugee camps. HPCT thus aims to promote education
by giving scholarships to the brightest and hardest
working students. It gave two scholarships the year
Daniel received his, one to a student of each gender,
and Daniel was the male recipient. Daniel was awarded
the scholarship after finishing first out of 572 students
who took the required test in all of Kyangwali Refugee
Camp.
In
2008, Daniel attended Makerere University, studying
Information Technology in a three-year program. In
school he is a discussion group leader—he draws
timetables and organizes for course work and links
group members to lectures.
In
addition to his schoolwork, Daniel started an environmental
awareness club at his school called Tree Talk. With
Daniel’s leadership, Tree Talk has planted over
50 trees around campus.
Daniel,
and three other Educate! students were elected by
their peers to represent them on the Educate! student
board of directors, which acts as a bridge between
the students and the organization. His roles include
uniting and encouraging Educate! students, finding
problems facing Educate! students, coming up with
solutions to the problems and forwarding the solutions
to the Educate! executive directors.
In
addition to this prestigious position, Daniel and
other students started a youth club known as COBURWAS.
COBURWAS stands for the countries in the great lakes
region, including the Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda
and Sudan. Daniel works as the Secretary General for
this group.
In
his own words, “We came to the notice that our
countries face wars, corruption, diseases, poor resources,
exploitation which has led to massive killing of people,
the raise in number of orphans and widows, abuse of
human rights, unemployment, poverty and under-development
in our countries. The most causes of all these are
lack of love and unity among the youths, which brings
nepotism, corruption and misunderstanding between
different tribes hence tribe conflicts, divisions
and crushes.”
“If
we can unite and bring love among the youths especially
in Kivu region then we shall prosper. We happy that
COBURWAS is opening branches in different parts and
getting much support in the community.”
His
future goal is to “Work for peace, unity and
development mostly in my country of origin through
entrepreneurship and the modern ICT.”
“With
Educate! our dreams will come true", as the new
day starts more ideas come to my mind on possibly
how we can make a difference back home this is because
of great step Eduacte! has taken to provide us with
quality Education which is ephasising on inovations,
self sustainability and outstading leadership skills.
"Educate! has endeed restored our hopes"
to cause great impacts transformation back home.”
-Daniel
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