Kirabo Reagan

Folks at @Phanerookampala thanks for having me over last night for the prayer service. And an honor to meet Ap. Grace. We will be talking in the coming days about how together with @stanbicug @OldMutualUganda @Nivana_Uganda @TMR_IntHospital @drkasenene we can #SaveAMother in the @imarathonug by helping Mengo Hospital Blood Bank build a cold room.

Kabushenga’s Thoughts Mentoring Duty June 3rd is Uganda Martyrs Day. We take time off work to commemorate a group of young men who had the courage of their convictions and face a cruel death for what they believed. It is called principle. We remember such acts as lessons to those who come after to serve as a guide to the choices they make. Normally there would have been hundreds of pilgrims treating from all corners of this country heading to the Namugongo Shrine. Their own long distance walk to worship is itself a reminder in what sacrifice means. This year, they did not come due to public health considerations. But we had the holiday nonetheless. I chose that day to make a small personal sacrifice for the benefit of those trying to find their way in life. For the last two years I have been part of a neighborhood running club known as the Mutungo Mad Bus. It has grown into a community of over 50 young people who meet three times a week to run. They spend the better part of everyday going at each other in good natured banter on the WhatsApp group. On Wednesday they came to visit the @RugyeyoFarmLtd to see what I do with my coffee work. It was an opportunity for me to share life’s lessons using the experience and context of the farm. For starters I make sure they second the better part of the day picking coffee. I want them to understand how tedious that work is. It also requires one to be meticulous and focused. An exercise in doing things one small step at a time. There are no short cuts. You have to pick ripe beans otherwise you end up with poor quality that will lose you money. It will make you extremely tired and test your patience. Yet that is exactly what life is especially in pursuit of success. It is also a collaborative exercise that forces you to work as part of a big team. Team work is the only way we get anything of consequence done. That is how we have built our running clubs and turned some really slow guys into speed machines and long distance running beasts. I also use the occasion to remind them that all of us will only make it if we engage in productive work the old hard way. Only after we had finished the task of picking coffee and learning how wealth is generated, we had lunch. I got them to see that there is no free lunch in life. For me, it is fulfilling to be able to use this farming experience beyond business. To pass on the privilege of the knowledge that is now a part of me in the process of becoming what I am today. What a joy to be of human value to society.