• Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Meet Maxensia,The Political Role model -Disability has not barred her from mentoring young Female Politicians

Maxensia is a Founding Member of NOWIP ,a Ugandan Female Politician affliated to Democratic Party, she is a development worker with a bias on women led and women oriented projects, social justice for women, and community health for women and children in the era of HIV/AIDS, Women’s economic empowerment as an avenue for women’s emancipation and increasing women’s participation in politics as a way of profiling them in decision making positions among others.

A role model with a fragmented and touching background having lived with HIV for the last 20 years, with attempts of being stripped of our marital property and land by my in-laws, something that I openly and bravely protested and contested.

My personal experience on the effects of HIV/AIDS instigated me to start an initiative, Lungujja Community Health Caring Organisation (LUCOHECO), to fight for the plight of all women in similar quagmires they could not easily extricate themselves from and thus I surrendered my land, property and energy to this fight.

I am a qualified accountant, a professional secretary and social worker who has ventured and walked into vulnerable people’s lives and changed them for the better using my requisite skills and abilities amidst the economic and political challenges of the day for an underdeveloped country like Uganda.

Maxensia leading a Covid-19 out reach Campaign under her CBO in a wheel chair

I have vast experience in community health work, social advocacy and networking, HIV/AIDS work, implementing women empowerment programs, pastoral counseling and has served in National politics culminating into the position of the National Women’s leadership for the Democratic party which is one of the strongest and oldest political parties in Uganda.

My current TOT and mentorship nature of groups of women and individuals clearly demonstrates my ability to replicate my practices in many other different areas.

Maxi addressing a DP rally

My 3 years’ training and experience working with Women’s Democracy Network-Uganda with the 6 political parties’ women leagues on the project that targets increasing women representation in elective positions in the 2016 general elections and the number of women vying and succeeding in the elections, ensuring gender equality including the equal participation of women and men in all aspects of political and public life, developing effective measures to bring about the equal participation of women in democratic processes and assist in developing best practices for their implementation towards achieving equality of rights and opportunities among women and men in public and private spheres, the choice of political and electoral systems, and the level of institutionalization of – and transparency in – decision-making processes within political parties, plus my leadership training at Coady International Institute of 2.

St. Francis Xavier in Nova Scotia Canada, has not only synergized my personal development but also gave me added advantage in advancing democratic theory and practice in Uganda, while promoting and protecting the common good ahead of the electioneering period.

I am a highly suitable participant because of my demonstrated experience and dedication to my professional responsibilities because I always put an extra effort to achieving set targets. I believe I will be very instrumental and a suitable representative of my constituency of community health workers to the TB Task Force as the voice of civil society in ending TB at all levels. The opportunity to participate on this forum will enhance my knowledge and zeal to come back and support those affected and infected by TB in Uganda to begin with and elsewhere in the world.

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