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Story By Linda Ojore
(UCU School of Medicine student, sponsored by Uganda Partners)
Photos by Patty Huston-Holm and Mike Holm
I was first thinking about a career in medicine when my younger brother, Joash, was born with a heart problem. It required him to travel to Germany to get a valve implant to survive. He was sev...
By Patty Huston-Holm
On paper, Uganda Christian University (UCU) third-year student, Favour Maombi Vera, appears successful with academic marks, travels within the African continent and is purposeful about where she wants to go in life.
Her Grade-Point Average (GPA) since enrolling in the UCU School of Journalism, Media and Communicatio...
By Patty Huston-Holm
In the past 17 years, Sarah Igambi Nakayima Walamaku has taught me a thing or two about survival, resilience and hope.
I thought of this in 2026 as we sat side-by-side and talked in the back seat of a vehicle making its way in the dust, dodging and allowing passage of motorcycles and sometimes traveling in and out of...
By Michael Ainomugisha
On a quiet afternoon at Uganda Christian University (UCU), Dr. Henry Mugisha reflects on a journey that began as a commitment to teaching and has now grown into a leadership role.
Mugisha, who was recently appointed Dean of the School of Business at UCU, has taken over from Vincent Kisenyi, who now serves as the P...
By Christine Mirembe
Each school offered Newton Kucel a chance to learn. However, each unpaid tuition bill threatened to take that chance away. Once such threats became real, rather than abandon his education, Kucel adopted an unusual strategy: whenever fees accumulated beyond what he could pay, he moved to another school. That cycle defined ...