{"id":17,"date":"2024-08-19T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2024-09-02T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T12:56:31","slug":"our-motivation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"Our Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row kd_background_image_position=&#8221;vc_row-bg-position-top&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Our Motivation: <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Uganda Now!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018\u2018The strength of Africa depends on strong Institutions; supplemented by the extraordinary inputs from distinguished Personalities\u201d Obama, 2009! Uganda has one of the youngest populations globally; UBOS 2024 projection stands above 45 million, with up to 78% of the individuals below 25 years of age; presenting opportunity to affect urgent positive change. Eastern &amp; Northern Uganda, are regions still recovering from past decades of devastating armed conflicts; poverty looms between 56% to 85% rate; illiteracy at 39% and, access to quality education &amp; basic health for rural communities at 3 per 10 individuals. Even with child Dependency Ratio at 108%; educated and empowered individuals can create the systematic transformation, and as a community problems can be solved.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The world is not waiting; the state of rural communities in Uganda concerns us all, no individual is isolated from fundamental human rights, yet; biased urbanization with escalating population, away from global demographic trend, presents a challenge. Government pivots, through Frameworks &amp; Policies and ensuring their implementation; but the Gaps are still evident.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Accordingly, WENET got founded in 2020 by a Ugandan protagonist Teacher, <strong><em>Joseph OKINO<\/em><\/strong>, inspired to partake in; \u201cThe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development &amp; the UN 17 SDGs advocating \u201c<strong><em>Leaving No One Behind<\/em>\u2019<\/strong>\u201d; the African Union Agenda 2063; and, Uganda Vision 2040, all conforming to community-driven transformation\u201d<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anchored on Altruism, the priority is; quality Education, good Health, resilient community Livelihood, Environment &amp; Climate Change, Equality, Technology &amp; sustainability Skills. Hope is that, irrespective of our social-space, everyone finds the opportunity to demonstrate input towards high impact and locally-led sustainable responses to needs of the underprivileged; sustaining commitment of WENET as the \u2018<strong><em>Transformation Agency<\/em><\/strong><em>\u2019<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row kd_background_image_position=&#8221;vc_row-bg-position-top&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row kd_background_image_position=&#8221;vc_row-bg-position-top&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Our Motivation: Uganda Now! \u2018\u2018The strength of Africa depends on strong Institutions; supplemented by the extraordinary inputs from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":525,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}