Norah Owaraga

Bridge the sports gender-gap

During my childhood, fifty years ago, females never played certain sports that were ring fenced as male only sports. It is noble and bold for Sports Women Connect Foundation, Entebbe, to choose to promote playing of rugby among girls and women as an avenue for mentoring and leadership training. On International Women’s Day 2022 they…

FDC did women’s day best

If you consider how it all started, among Uganda’s political parties, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) did International Women’s Day (IWD) 2022 best. IWD had socialist beginnings with women forming movements to fight for equality for their labour, for voting rights, for radical change for the benefit of womankind; and for celebrating womanhood. And…

Uganda modern women at work

Recently, on my way from Entebbe to Kampala, I stopped by a Shell Fueling Station at Entebbe Town and wow did the pump attendant impress me. She was so well put together. You could see that in the morning when she prepared to come to work, she had put in the effort. Her make up…

Shame the criminals – perpetrators of gender-based violence

“At the death of my grandmother, I inherited her house which my father built for her. My inherited house is part of our ancestral homestead. I have deep roots on our ancestral land. Yes, scary for whoever thinks of uprooting me from our ancestral land. My Alinga Farms is located on about four acres of…