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Francis Ssuuna is the founder of the Slum Run in Uganda. He is seeking funds for his first and second semester at Makerere University.
I’m Francis Ssuuna, from the Butterfly project, which was started in 2009 by Ben Parkinson, “To empower young and gifted talented children in Uganda”
This year I’m preparing to join Makerere University and I’m looking for £500 to cover for my tuition, function fees, internship and transport at the University for one semester for the course of “Bachelor of Arts in Social Development”
The course is two semesters per year and the £500 will enable me embark on the first semester. As for the rest of the semesters, I’ll be looking for a private sponsor and a mentor to support me over the next semesters.
I choose this course above all because I believe it’s important for a social entrepreneur to acquire extra skills and knowledge about social development. Therefore after this course I’ll be well prepared to move on with my projects and to help reach out to as many young people as I can.
Below, is a brief story about my projects and what I have achieved as a social entrepreneur
A project that was started to empower young people become change makers by teaching them the art of visionary thinking. I started the Vision for Change project in 2012 and I have been able to reach out to 45 young people in four different districts in Uganda and these include, Lyantonde, Mbale,Kampala and in Kitgum.
In 2015 I made a trip to East Africa with Mansoor-Also a member of the Butterfly Project. The main motives for this trip were;
- To discover the young change makers in various districts of Uganda and recognize them as Active Youths as per Mansoor’s project.
- To develop a foundation for the Vision4Change in some districts of Uganda.
- To train youth in every location with Francis Vision4Change methodology.
- To demonstrate to the outside world the power of young people in creating change in Uganda.
- To expose the unrecognized young entrepreneurs in Uganda to the outside world.
To conclude, this trip was a big success and it has enabled young people in east Africa come togther to create positive change.
In the middle of 2015, I developed an online mentoring program for the vision for change members. The program looks at connecting our members to the professional social entrepreneurs world wide. Weekly trainings are carried out on Skype for a period of 3 months, giving young people an experience of discoring what it is living a social.
Currently, I’m working on a book called the, “Vision For change training curriculum” This book is meant to teach and provide information to young people about social entrepreneurship and with such a curriculum that suits everyone’s understanding.
A vision is a gift and can only come to you if you offer yourself to claim it, “with selfless intentions of changing the world, your vision becomes a blessing to others and to yourself"
The Slum Run was developed in 2012 to change the lives of children in the stone quarries in Acholi quarters, by giving them athletics coaching, a means to pay their school fees and requirements through sponsorship in a run once each year, thus removing their need to work in the quarry again.
The Slum Run 2017 was completed on 16th, July, 2017 with massive success.
Miss Uganda 2016/2017 (Leah Kagasa) attended as a runner in the adult race and as one to give out the awards.
We also approached Bobi Wine a musician turned legislator, a big voice in Uganda most especially for the Slum Children. He promised to work with us on projected related issues and the project proposal is being developed to start off with.
Thank you for reading my story. Please feel free to support.
If we reach our first target, the second stretch target will be for Term 2
This project successfully funded on 19th August 2017