PEDN summer internship

Two weeks ago on Saturday was the Ashoka Youth Venture and it was amazing.I arrived at 9am and started on the registration table were I was in charge of registering secondary school students and having their names written on an identification card. This went on for about 2 hours and the youth venture began with speeches from many Ashoka fellows from East Africa. Their was an icebreaker and the students were eventually split into groups to talk about the problems in their communities and how to change them. I went and sat with a group and learnt how many problems were faced by different communities far away from Kampala and I contributed with ways to make the solution better like others in the group did. In the afternoon, we skyped with Ashoka fellows from the UK, USA, Kenya, Tanzania and it was a good experience in sharing ideas and the similarities between different places and people. At about 3pm we cut a cake and celebrated the event after speeches from the Minister of finance and Gloria Wavamunno who founded a school to help students to learn better. Overall I enjoyed the day and it was a lot of fun to interact and meet new people.