Sam Bright Muhindo Takes Over the Flagship to Champion Education in Rwenzori Region

By Author Yesigye Brian

It has been a progressive journey, full of transformation and emotional reconciliation, beating cultural shocks and many social barricades, settling with alien communities in school among others, and breaking jinxes in the small periods of time have made the dancing icon a bright star in the dark clouds.

Your own, Sam Bright Muhindo has been unveiled as the reigning Bravo Shoes Community Support Organisation Ambassador, and his main role is to champion education among the communities in the Rwenzori territory and across the entire country.

According to the masses across the world, Muhindo has broken the jinx and he has surely given education the real meaning following his faster transformation and the ability to prove to the world that education is worth anything.

Rightly, his Baby Class teachers Nambusi Sharon and Cherengat Juliet of Namuwaya Education Centre predicted well when they said he could make a “Great” leader therefore it is not surprising that the prophecy has come to pass.

“He is a bright boy!… He came in the middle of the term but he picked up very fast. He is so friendly, he interacts with fellow learners very well. What I see, he has leadership skills,” said Cherengat.

Kasese District is one of the districts in the Rwenzori Region with schools in hard-to-reach areas because most parts of the district are largely mountainous with many lakes and rivers, making access to social services such as schools and hospitals difficult.

Muhindo will steer the role to champion parents to take his friends back to school. In his role as an ambassador, at the launch which took place at his home in Kyasenda. Sam Bright took the saying, “A candle loses nothing by lighting another, he chose two of his friends Muhindo Boaz and another. However, taking the two of them was not possible and the latter took the lottery.

Meanwhile, it is not the end of the road for Boaz as Bravo Shoes Community Support Organisation is inviting any willing well-wisher to further light the hope of Muhindo Boaz.

Muhindo on his First Tour as an Ambassador

Fast-backward, before taking the ambassadorial role, Sam Bright Muhindo was all over key strategic tourist areas taking a tour on his route to Kasese. His first stop was the Equator, Muhindo could not hide his curiosity upon reaching Kayabwe on Masaka Road.

Uganda is one of the few countries around the globe where the equator runs through zero degrees from the East to the West.

The next stop was the lake shaped like a map of Africa, Lake Rutoto formerly Nkugute is located in Rubirizi District along Bushenyi-Kasese Road. One of the mysterious 52 crater lakes in Queen Elizabeth National Park, according to Asiimwe Sowedi, a fisherman at Nkugute, the lake is situated beneath mountains like Kantungu, Maramagambo, Rwemitagu, and Rulama.

Asiimwe brought crub like crow fish which he said is only found in this lake apart from Tilapia and other types of fish which Asiimwe and others rely on and are able to raise at least Sh20,000 on a good day of fishing.

Muhindo could not hide his excitement as he made a stop-over to share a memorable moment at the Africa-shaped lake before he proceeded to Kazinga Channel, the link between Lake George and Lake Albert, and went through Queen Elizabeth National Park until our final destination.