FOWODE Young Leaders Alumni Association

KAMPALA, UGANDA CONVENTION COMMUNIQUE 3rd December 2012 I) PREAMBLE We the over 1000 people of Uganda, having met on 3rd December 2012, from various walks of life including the youth, women, business community, persons with disability, media, political leaders, religious leaders and Non-Governmental organizations, met in Kampala, Uganda to discuss the most pressing challenges and creative solutions to fighting theft of public funds. Since the first Anti-Corruption Convention that was held on 8th December, 2011, Uganda has lost not less than 1.3 trillion shillings resulting into a situation of deplorable health services across the country, ill facilitated educational infrastructure, spiraling poverty levels, growing unemployment, ethnic tensions, land grabbing, declining fortunes of agriculture, environmental degradation. Aware that the unraveling theft in the office of the Prime Minister, Public Service, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Local Government, M...

They are men and women of valor They have a conviction they can die for They wait not for a decree to sacrifice They have no enemies as ling as they get help They surrender not and retreat not Achievers;they are called by their lives People of their own world A world where the fugitive tread not Where no one without scars appear The place of harvesting the seed sown Onlookers call it a divine blessing Not knowing the thin and thick The journey's demands and threats The many moments of sweat and pain The actual cost of climbing the ladder May they inspire the dead world Where non-actors sleep in confinement The world of the sluggard and vision less Without a voice to end the barrenness That has kept us in the unfair balance. GEOFFREY N.NSUBUGA Dedication to all the Alumni of Forum for Women in Democracy.