I am Nabimanya Humphrey 18 yrs old formely a student of Kiira College, Butiki. I grew up with my guardians after the death of my mum who passed away when I was just 9 months old. My sister took me as her “first born” but on a sad note she was HIV+ve. She later married a man of the same HIV status. Therefore both my guardians were HIV+ve.

In my primary school, I was discriminated by friends because my guardians were HIV+ve. I even feared to associate with people of opposite sex. When I joined Kiira College Butiki, I thought the same thing would happen to me in secondary.

When The World Starts With Me (WSWM) was introduced to our school, I was motivated to join WSWM after seeing that the curriculum contained lessons concerning HIV/AIDS and the roles I would play to fight against that killer disease.

I decided to fight against HIV/AIDS and to help my fellow young people realize that this disease was real and also not to discriminate other people that are having this disease.
Students at our school found lesson 4 (Friends and Relationships) very interesting because they learnt how to relate with people of different sex in their community.
What I have benefited from participating in WSWS Program

Through The World Starts With Me (WSWM) program:

• I acquired leadership skills. I have been a leader in my school since my S2. I have led clubs. I have been an SRHR instructor, not because I have a degree in Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) but just using the knowledge and skills I have acquired from the WSWM program.
• I have learnt many things from people around me like teachers, friends and WSWM team members that have made me a better person.
• I have shared the knowledge I got from WSWM with the outside community through organizations like Uganda Young Positive, Youth Watch Uganda. Recently I was invited to join Uganda Youth Action Network.
• The skills, knowledge and opportunities I have got from WSWM, have helped me set my future goals.
• I am now a better young person because of WSWM. I am no longer discriminated because of my parents.
• I have climbed to the level of a national peer educator and my parents are very proud of me. Moving around the country, has earned me a lot of friends across the country.
• I gained respect form my school mates by helping out drug addicts and defending them from being chased away from school

National Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) activities I have been involved in:
I have participated in a number of national SRHR activities including:

• I was a facilitator and also represented WSWM at the grand conference of Youth Vision held in 2006 at Trinity College Nabingo.
• I have been a national student peer educator for the WSWM.
• I have facilitated at a number of training workshops organized by SchoolNet Uganda for the WSWM program.
• I was invited to attend an ICE BREAKER workshop held at DSW Bonita where the WSWM program was appreciated for producing good people and equipping young people with useful life skills. There at DSW, I won two TOOL KITBOOKS for the program and gave one to Mr. Alex Okwaput.

I have built up an online youth forum where we can share ideas related to Health issues among young people.  We even have 8 Kenyan young stars in our forum and in a little time to come we shall be having many of them.

All I can say is that WSWM has made me a BETTER PERSON OF TODAY AND TOMMOROW.