We all desire for a better Uganda. A better
education system, better health care system, a better road network and better
leadership and a better tomorrow. Some hunger for it more than others while
others wish they would just grab the opportunity to have a more than better
society.
I'd also love a better Uganda, but while we look
to a government to offer us solutions to the many questions that have left us
discontent, I pray that we choose to find the solutions to our dismay within
us. They always say" Be the change that you want to see" Be the
doctor that loves saving lives, not just an ordinary doctor. Be the lawyer that
loves justice not just an ordinary lawyer. Be the activists that would lobby
other freedom not just ordinary activists. We are all capable of good and maybe
as a community our strength lies not in our individual struggles but in our
collective effort to better each other in one way or another.
As Ugandans, one thing that brings us down is our
lack of community, the Ubuntu in us needs a little redemption for us to see to
the bottom of our rather disheartening reality. If we are to move to better
development and to a satisfying reality, we need to remember that the hope and
the future of our nation lie with our hands. In tapping into our Ubuntu, we
will deliver better education systems, better health care services and better
people into our society.
The sham and obsolete nature of what our Country
has been turned into should push us to desire to cause change, we do not need
guns and street riots to cause a wave of change. Regardless of the fact, that
we could also be able to deliver change that way. I pray in due season we
can look at the power the lies in finding strength in the numbers of our
community. I am the change I need to see and as a development worker I
will push for a better Uganda even to the end.
If we can all risk standing for the truth, maybe
then many of us will search deep into our selves and find solace in reviving
our system that has for so long been subjected to utter abuse. You do not have
to join the army; all you have to do is find something that makes you come
alive with a cause for a better society. Plants trees, build a well, Build a
school and when you are done doing it all...do it all over again with a sense
of ownership that this country is ours and not for any ruling leader. I am out
here, writing because I know this is my voice added for a bigger cause.
