Lucie Bamuhamye, Change Agent of Namutumba District

I first heard about change agent in 1995 when I was a youth leader (Animator) in Jinja Diocese.

“Though I had some Development skills, I admired the change Agent Methodology so much that I had to create sometime within my busy schedule so as to attend the full change agent training course.  I later enrolled for training of trainer’s course in the same year. It helped me so much because it made sense to my participatory rural appraisal (PRA) training which I had just finished. I started applying the change agent methodology in my work as an animator.  The PRA tools became meaningful and real to life, the community around started liking it and p raising me as a practical facilitator. With those trainings and practical experiences, I got exposed to many likeminded organizations that I managed to partner with at various levels.

 Of profound importance is that I partnered with one evangelist from Baptist Mission Uganda- (BMU) by the names Patricia crook.  She contracted me to train their pastors throughout the country in many skills such as management, Accountancy, Fundraising & Resource Mobilization, community sanitation, proposal writing, etc.  This exercise excited me a lot as I travelled the whole country, earned money which empowered me economically and it gave me a firm political platform.  Though am not in active politics, I am a very strong opinion leader within my whole region because all prominent local leaders know me as an adviser and objective woman.
 
Among the many organizations I’ve partnered with at official levels is National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) which managed to fund my Main organization with Uganda Shillings 17 million to carry out a one year project (the project was value addition to groundnuts.  Out of the trainings and after my fundraising courses in Namugongo I managed to fundraise and mobilize resources which enabled me and the community at large to plant shade trees at Ivukula sub county headquarters, Ivukula Secondary School, Kamudoke Primary School and Ivukula Health Unit.  This project was worthy eight million Uganda shillings (Shs 8.m).”

“I was privileged and was selected as a Chair person of Uganda Change Agent Association Board of Directors that I served from 2012 – 2015.
Life is moving on well with me. Long live UCAA.”