Just green about the ICT world….. The redeemer (SchoolNet Uganda) came my way!!!

It was in 2001 when I had just joined Duhaga Secondary school in Hoima for my high school education when SchoolNet Uganda picked up Duhaga SS to be one of its members.

We had computers but they were just computers and the miraculous part of them was missing and that was Internet.

 Being so optimistic and inquisitive about the whole Internet ‘thing’ I was one of the first students to register for the ICT club which was not so busy at that time. Because I showed much interest in the program, I was ,chosen by the school ICT coordinator Master Kizza Ali by then, to be attending different workshops in Kampala organized by SchoolNet Uganda .
My first workshop was at Shine Hotel in Kansanga though we used to have the training sessions from St. Peters SS Nsambya.
I got many skills, like web designing, Photo manipulation and so many other computer skills which just changed my life.

I have traveled through out East Africa just because of the Knowledge I gained form the workshops organized by SchoolNet Uganda. Leaving alone that, SchoolNet offered free Internet services to students at the building opposite Fido Dido of which I personally benefited from, by that time Internet was pretty expensive but because of that Internet service by SchoolNet Uganda, I just perfected my self in the arena of Internet.

Currently I am in my third year at Uganda Christian University pursuing Public Administration and Management, but I am well conversant with the ICT world because of the strong foundation I got from SchoolNet Uganda. I don’t  need to go for some computer packages because all was taught to me through the efforts of SchoolNet Uganda .

Apart from being a computer ‘wizard’ I gained counseling skills from the workshop I attended at Ridar Hotel in Seeta, this was On-line Counseling training workshop under the AIDSWEB project, I just got marvelous skills. This workshop was in conjunction with Straight Talk foundation.
 I have changed people’s lives just because I can counsel them and they get better with their problems
and in that I have been blessed!!  And I attribute this all to the efforts of SchoolNet Uganda.
 When am doing all my things on this planet earth I just remember SchoolNet Uganda it shaped in a way that
I would never be shaped.

 “Long live SchoolNet Uganda.