"To start with, a lot of women are the ones in charge of their kitchens at home, and many of us are happy knowing we are able to access food specialties from back home."

"Its spices or knowing there is some matooke in the fridge."

"Pregnant women or women who just gave birth tend to have cravings for their comfort food, which in most cases is food they grew up eating like matooke."

"Our community has a lot of young women who are becoming parents and we love that we are able to provide that for them."

"We also work with women mainly in our supply chain."

"Our key buyer in Uganda is a woman."

"It’s important that we are providing extra income to the local farmers in Uganda, who are mainly women."

"We have women who wake up as early as 4a.m. to go to the farms in Kasese, to pick out which produce is suitable for export."

"Chakula Tamu has become more than a place you buy food. *People come here to socialize."

"To share with us. To share with one another. To share recipes."

"It’s more than just a grocery store."

"It began with one of the co-founders’ love for matooke. Matooke, also known as the East African Highland banana, is one of the staple foods of Uganda."

"We will be giving away a basket of organic East African food matooke, baby bananas (ndizi), garden egg (ntula), and more."

"As the business has grown, I also get a lot of satisfaction when I see my customer’s faces light up when they come to the store and see products from back home. *It’s now bigger than just me. It’s also now about the community. And the relationships we have built."

"I am taking on my next challenge of unlocking the industrialization challenge in East Africa."

"Ring-fencing of NTV’s news leadership as the Number One most watched and trusted source of news and talent growth”."

"Our talent is most watched and most preferred across news and entertainment."

"We need to empower the private sector including small and medium business (SMA's) with skills of harnessing the consumption of the renewable energy resources."

"This experience made me fall in love with entrepreneurship and gave me the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of setting up a small organization from scratch. ‎*After that I knew I wanted to start my own organization."

"I was also their first hire in Uganda and was entrusted with setting up their operations here."

"This was a perfect fit because I loved the idea of using technology to make a difference in the lives of everyday people."

"I moved on to join a startup called Solar Sister which distributes solar solutions and empowers rural women to better their livelihoods."

"I also found that I missed being on the front line, working directly with clients and making things happen."

"Having previously been with a small IT support company."

"When it became much more about maintenance, I grew bored."

"I joined them at a time when they were doing a lot of setup work which I really enjoyed."

"For a while I worked for a large corporation in the telecommunications sector."

"During my career I realized I loved the process of setting up new systems."

"I researched what career opportunities existed within this new world of computers that I had discovered and went on to opt for computer science at university."

"Every single evening after that, I found an excuse to go to the lab, sometimes not leaving until very late."

"I was fascinated from day one and I remember asking the lady in charge so many questions to try and understand how computers worked."

"This was where I got the opportunity to sit in front of a computer for the very first time."

"After secondary school, while waiting to decide what I would study at university, I worked at a university library which had a computer lab."

"The two subjects I loved were physics and mathematics, so I focused on those."

"His dream was for me to become a doctor, but I hated chemistry and anything to do with blood so that just wasn’t going to happen."

"But even long before that my father had always encouraged to me to study sciences."

"I became interested in computer science around the age of eighteen when I was exposed to computers for the first time."

"I see tech as an enabler."

"I felt it was an open field; if boys can do it, I too can."

"I did a lot of things my brothers did and choosing tech was a no brainer."

"I was never afraid to do things."

"lending a hand in helping mentor young women in technology are other key ones."

"Helping a couple of start-ups gain a foothold and start operations."

"I would say the recognition from Anita Borg Institute as the Change Agent Award winner still tops my milestones."

"The blended learning approach helped children learn better and retain the knowledge more easily."

"This space excites me a lot because the possibilities are endless."

"What’s happened over the years is that millennials are more empowered to step into the entrepreneurship and innovation space to come up with ways to solve some of the most pressing needs using enterprise and innovation."

"When I look around me, I see many problems that need to be solved in different sectors; energy, water and sanitation, health, education."