Education is the path out of poverty. Thanks to their career training and education, women can be independent. They can choose their husbands, and as they marry later, have fewer children, and fewer premature infants. There is a far greater chance that all their children will be sent to school. Because of their own career training, they can support siblings, allowing them to be educated as well; parents benefit too; with additional structure and support, they are not forced to give up their land.
Business Economist, MSc in International Management
Africa has fascinated and been a constant presence in my life for many years. At the same time, I am convinced that sustainable development arises above all where people are given the opportunity to shape their own future. Education provides one of the most important foundations for this: it opens up prospects, fosters personal responsibility and enables economic independence.
For me, UECD’s work brings precisely these aspects together. Through a sound education, young people in Uganda receive not merely short-term support, but the chance to build long-term prospects through their own efforts and, in doing so, to play a positive role in shaping both their personal lives and the development of their country. I would like to contribute to this through my involvement with UECD.
We are one world and share it with each other. However, resources and opportunities are still unequally distributed. I am happy to work for more justice. Education is the key to achieve it. Furthermore, I find Africa simply fascinating: the people, the landscapes, the animals, the life.
Education opens up new horizons and lays the foundation for shaping one’s own life independently. At the same time, opportunities for a good education are still distributed very unevenly around the world. Through my work with UECD, I want to help give young people in Uganda access to higher education and, in the long term, better professional and personal opportunities. It is particularly important to me that this support has a lasting impact and empowers people to shape their own futures.
The future of young people in Africa should not depend on having to emigrate and leave their country. The fact that UECD offers Ugandans from humble backgrounds a perspective in their own country makes volunteering so valuable to me. To support the funding of studies in Uganda, especially for women, means for me a contribution to the advancement of the individual, the country of Uganda and to the promotion of justice and equal opportunities in the world.
I am convinced that aid for developing nations can only work when the nation being helped does not become more dependent as a result. The core element of help is education, giving people the possibility of helping themselves over the long term. It is precisely this which is the aim of UECD, an aim which I support entirely, for when one invests in youth one is investing in the future of a nation and our world.
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