Vinny
Vinny is one of 5 bothers. His father passed away when he was 17 and although he was a keen student, Vinny was chosen by his eldest brother to look after the family house.
When we arrived in Bajjo, Vinny was making his living as an ‘odd job’ man, finding work wherever he could. Keen to get involved, we initially employed Vinny as a translator, however the more time we spent with him, the more we were impressed by his potential. After a pilot run of our programmes, we offered him the opportunity to become our programme manager with full responsibility of all programmes, staff and budget.
After two years of running the programmes in Bajjo, Vinny moved on to become our programme manager in Bombo, running the Creative Studies and WhizzKids United programmes in the town’s schools, although he continues to work closely with the project in Bajjo.
He has now been working for Uganda Creates for coming up to 10 years.