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Hard work pays!
Joel has risen from earning about $2 a day to nearly $66 a day. He wouldn't do that without determination. Would you imagine now a highly respected professional at one point hurting himself running wheelbarrows at a construction site? Joel hurt himself several times doing manual labour to earn a living.
Volunteer Experiences
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Bingwa Initiative Volunteer at African Union (2022-2023)
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Organisational Development Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Uganda (2022)
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Co-founder at Lamwo Youth Forum for Change (2016 to date)
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UN Online Volunteer at The Energy Globa and Universal Versatile Society (2017-2018)
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Coordinator East Africa Regional Group at the Kectil Program (2019 to date)
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Volunteer at Active Blessing Uganda 2013-2015)
Jobs
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Retail Assistant at St Vincent De Paul Society (Vinnies) Canberra (2023)
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Executive Assistant at Aspire Leadership Network (ALN) remote (2023)
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Chief Operating Officer The Kectil Program- Global (2022)
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Country Director at the Kectil Center for Youth Leadership, Uganda (2021)
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Consultant-eLearning at NIRAS/GIZ/EU Civil Society in Uganda Support Programme (2021)
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Junior Associate at Challenges Worldwide Uganda’s Youth to Work Programme (2019)
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Teaching Assistant at the Yenching Academy of Peking University (2018-2019)
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Classroom Teacher at Padibe Senior Secondary School (2017)
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Franchise Agent, Northern Uganda at Africell Telecom Uganda Limited (2016-2017)
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Project Officer at Hope for Humans Uganda’s Nodding Syndrome Cure Programme (2015-2016)
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Classroom Teacher at St Francis Borgia High School (2015)