African Woman of the Month: Tracy Kyagulanyi
In December 2013, Child’s i Foundation’s Executive Director Tracy Kyagulanyi followed through on one of the most important decisions of her life: after twelve years of working and building a life with her husband Roger Kyagulanyi and daughters Ella F Mirembe and Lizzy F Sanyu in the UK, she decided to move back home to fulfill a lifelong dream to work with and contribute to policy development that favors children in Uganda.Born thirty eight years ago in Uganda, Tracy’s love affair with children begun at a young age and only intensified when, during her university holidays in the late nineties, she got the chance to work with international organizations like World Food Programme and Norwegian Refugee Council in the Northern part of the country at the height of the Kony insurgency.
‘My first job was with the World Food Programme. We would go to displaced peoples’ camps and give food items to refugees. We also supported community initaitives such as ‘Food for Work’ to help communities construct roads and farm. Everytime I was in the camp, I always felt like I wanted to take all the children home with me. Some of them were household heads robbed of their childhoods. It was very painful to leave them behind in those conditions. I really loved my job and promised myself I could do it better. And so it started like that-from that experience.’
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