And last but not least..

The fantastic 4 – or Mercy, Brian, Christina and Viktoria, as people also tend to call us J During the past 2 weeks we have been researching about youth entrepreneurship with a particular focus on the KCCA Youth Fund, a government initiative from 2011/12, launched to fight youth unemployment in Kampala.

Christina and Brian during the group interview at Natete market.

Throughout the field research we have talked to both government officials, Youth leaders from Kampala’s different divisions as well as young entrepreneurs, who have been involved with the Fund. And in spite of a limited time frame we have learnt a great deal about the challenges that young entrepreneurs face. During a group interview we held at Natete Market we asked the entrepreneurs to make a priority list of skill they found important to become a successful entrepreneur. The discussion between them was lively and even though the interview was in Luganda, everyone could feel the engagement and heat. After the interview the group asked us how we would prioritize the list, and in that way they involved us. Given the different cultural backgrounds we had all different opinions on which skills was more important than others, which made it very interesting. 

The Muslim family – the Gadahfi mosque.

But in between our hectic field research we also had time to eat lunch at the ministry of finance and planning (fancy fancy) and also visited the Gadaffi mosque, where we got a chance to play Muslims. The girls got dressed up from top to toe: Christina as the “barbie muslim”, Mercy the “Masitula” meaning  something in Muslim that we have already forgotten (sorry) and Viktoria just as “muslim Viktoria”– only Brian was allowed to walk around in his normal clothes. A fun experience.

Being the last group posting our experiences on this blog, we would like to thank everyone for making this trip and this collaboration between MUBS and CBS possible. Webale! Tak!

Mercy, Viktoria and Brian working very hard at Annex.