"My most memorable moment as a woman in this sector is marrying and raising six children without it impeding my professional and career growth. A proper balance between work and family."

"Knowledge is key in the proper regulation of the electricity subsector. I possess a mix of practical experience and technical knowledge to understand what goes into the proper operation and maintenance of the electricity subsector, coupled with leadership exposure and training to balance empathy and execution."

"The opportunity is there, what lacks is the willingness to do it. There is a lot more discipline and constraint needed in manufacturing but in the long term, it is something that has rewards."

"When mothers are well off the entire society is well off."

"We can't make a Mercedes in Uganda but we can make something fit for our local market."

"Being part of what tourism is in Uganda, they need to experience the heritage that they have as citizens of this country."

"They need to be retested at the airport before they get to move out of the airport environment in Entebbe."

"The other challenge is to get Ugandans themselves to appreciate what we have to be able to share this with the world."

"There are a lot of investment opportunities in tourism in Uganda. One of them, is the accommodation facilities."

"Some of the flights have been canceled which is affecting the numbers that are coming in."

"It is hard and it is challenging, but the fact that we can have a few people come in is the main thing showing that we can still allow international tourists into this country."

"I prefer to look at the positive side of it, the fact that we are managing these waves differently from the first one based on the lessons that we learned."

"We only opened the borders in October 2020."

"This is another responsibility that we are taking on right now as a challenge that we need to overcome."

"The hotels have strict standard operating procedures that they are following."

"By the end of the year, business started picking up and we got into the second wave in May this year."

"The airport was closed and everything was shut down."

"That has hit us very hard."

"Everyone coming in has to have their PCR test report to present."

"The tourists are coming in and there is a restriction on what vehicles they get in, the tour guides who have to go with them, the drivers must have their 48 hours PCR test before they go with any visitors."

"One waiter has to deal with one client or one group of clients for the whole time in the hotel and they have to use the same tables so that there is not too much mixing of people to provide for more safety for everyone."

"We require a lot more luxury accommodation facilities in the different parts of the country."

"We need to get all Ugandans to appreciate and understand tourism as a sector and be part of it."

"We still need more investment to make the tourism sector in Uganda perform to its best."

"Ugandans need to appreciate the resources available, the opportunity of investing in tourism in Uganda."

"We have organized ourselves to have the bubble tours."

"We always say in Uganda that tourism is for everyone, so we need to bring that to reality."

"We came to a standstill for those several months of the year."

"We went into our first lockdown in March 2020 and that lasted for about two and a half months."

"We are in our second wave but we also have the experience that we learned from the first wave of handling COVID in Uganda in 2020."

"The difference is that we are not completely shut down. *The borders are open, international tourists are allowed to come to Uganda under some strict operational procedures."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I cannot do this alone."

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

"We need to work with more people."

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

"We do not trust our children enough."

"I lost myself very many times because I wanted to be like everybody else but you cannot be like everybody else."

"You cannot, yes you are wearing the same uniform, you are doing everything but you cannot."

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

"It will bring a lot of ease in the city apart from time. *It will also take away dust which affects most people’s businesses."