Norah Owaraga

Facilitate the pursuit of happiness

How would you improve your community? Aspire to think and do as Captain Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso. “It is about making sacrifices for the homeland, giving the best of oneself for the well-being of the people,” Captain Traore is quoted as having said. And he holds true to his rhetoric in his actions.…

Resilience and tenacity make a person unique

Resilience and tenacity she is endowed with. Which she uses to do the greater good, and for that I admire and aspire to do as she does. Fundraisers for charitable development interventions, surely can tell you that it isn’t easy to rebound from a rejection. With her tenacity. though, against all odds she rebounds and…

Spotlight on Uganda’s ailing public healthcare services

“What are the funding gaps in the healthcare sector since the withdrawal of USAID assistance?” was among the five major questions discussed on Saturday, 29th March 2025, on Capital Gang, a highly listened to political radio talk show on 91.3 Capital FM. Listening in, I was saddened by the generic-sound-bite type of politicking statements that…

Intellectual opinionated fact checker

Truth be told, I don’t really know if when I was five years old I ever thought of what I would want to be when I grew up. Although I can remember that which I admired of my parents and other adults, from which I can extrapolate. We of Gen-X grew up with admiration for…