All Quotes

"And for me that struggle turned out to be a life transforming experience."

"We need to change the mind-set and create impact."

"I cannot do this alone."

"We need to work with more people."

"We have a very young population at our disposal and if not guided, we stand a chance of losing out on their abilities and worse losing them."

"By the time one is 20 the mind is made up, if you can get into someone’s mind at 13, you can plant a seed."

"The time one is 18, their mind is already made up to transform the communities."

"If we are to do big things, we have to identify the problems within our communities and find solutions to fix them."

"The people with the solutions are the young people we are not giving the opportunity."

"When you give young people a platform, you will be surprised at how much they are capable of doing on their own."

"I have seen young people come up with innovations that are transforming communities."

"There is more to life than winning a trophy."

"I have been working young people for the last 15 years."

"I have had to unlearn, learn and relearn a lot of things. *Someone is never too young to start impacting others."

"As a society, we have a common challenge."

"We do not trust our children enough."

"We want to do everything for them which is wrong."

"We need to allow them to flourish."

"Stanbic Bank has been a pillar in my life since 2014 till toayIt has become family."

"We have changed so many lives over the years both internally and externally."

"We have cried laughed played and created unbreakable bonds."

"I am a true believer of living your truth and purpose."

"My journey with youth and women empowerment through transformational growth steers me in a new direction."

"I now have a chance to make a much BIGGER impact in the SME sector."

"I cannot wait to walk this journey with you! Let’s change the status quo and inspire development in Uganda together."

"I was blessed to work for an employer that allowed me to follow my dreams and execute them."

"That is something that doesn’t happen often."

"There have been lessons learned that I will take to the next phase in my life."

"It has been an honour working with Stanbic Bank Uganda and our bond will only grow stronger."

"I got a wonderful education in Ghana … In high school, we used some of the same textbooks that I found were in use when I came to the US and I started my college education."

"And I was also interested in science, I was interested in engineering. My father was a civil engineer; he was one of the lead engineers on Ghana’s Volta River Dam, the hydroelectric project that provided electricity to Ghana as well as a couple of neighboring natio"

"When I came to the States in the fall of 1971, I started out at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania … I also thought about MIT, but at the time, I thought MIT was just for nerds."

"So I wondered why I was getting these C’s. And I decided, maybe I need to move to a different English class. So I moved to a higher-level English class, and in that class the professor actually recognized my writing ability. From that point on, I got nothing but A’s in those English classes."

"GTE Labs was really great. It was like Bell Labs; there was a lot of freedom to follow your interests"

"Show up prepared and chase the work, not the glamour."

"had an inborn instinct for Social Work" and "found an outlet...in the practice of medicine," which offered "an excellent opportunity to live the only worthwhile life, 'the life of Service'."

"I am at my country’s service, as you know. I am serving under the Red Cross Public Health Bureau now, but will volunteer, at any time you wish, to go with the Freedmen’s unit."

"One cannot go through life without facing obstacles of various types. We have to remain focused, barrel over the obstacles, see the light at the end of the tunnel, and by the Grace of God, keep moving."

"I am proud of the fact that I deemed it essential to teach patients about their medical condition, encourage them to ask questions, and to read. I am proud of the knowledge I have been able to impart to physicians around the country through lectures on gastrointestinal diseases."

"I want to be just another nurse accepted into the service, and I'll do a good job. That's what's expected of me. You can't keep us back any longer; the new world is coming."

"I knew the barriers were going to be broken down eventually and felt the more applicants, the better the chances would be for each person"

"I didn't come in the Army to service any of them, I came in to nurse them."

"I wanted to be an attorney like my dad. He told me I should be a physician, as I liked helping people. I majored in chemistry and minored in speech as an undergraduate so I could consider law."

"I did not enjoy my time at Jefferson due to the racism that I experienced. Medical school taught me that we must have both wisdom and compassion if we are to improve healthcare. Both must be present as we assist our patients in healing."

"“It was more about cultural competency and connecting with patients than it was about race,” she says. “I wanted to see others get the educational opportunities I had; and I knew that they would make first-class clinicians."

"Maximizing opportunities in linking the oil and gas sector with other sectors of the economy” at the 3rd Annual National Content Conference at Serena Hotel in Kampala."

"No matter where you are, you can morph and grab opportunities that the oil and gas sector presents."

"Even if you are a farmer, you can play in the oil and gas sector."

"If you are playing in the education sector, there is a way you can come in."

"You can plug into these opportunities wherever you are."