I Want to Encourage Girls to Be What they Want to Be

My name is Nancy Lakot  a social entrepreneur, student of Makerere University Business School and doing a course in International Business  degree program.  At university I am the course leader in our class. My dream to attain a University education was to  be a role model  and change maker of which I was raise from Butterfly Project and to show to my village friend  who are girls whose parents didn’t believe they  can make it in life. And I want to act as example that girls can also make it in life  .  When I formally started my Primary One level in a small village called Lalak in  lokung sub country in Lamwo district . 

It was almost impossible to dream at the time given the fact we lived in camp due to LRA (Lords Resistance Army) war in northern Uganda – as a result of the LRA war we had to moved from our home land for safety to camp as refugee. The situations I witnessed in the camp made me not only think about myself but to be a powerful woman to fight for woman and encourage girl to be who they want to be not what their parent want them to be.  Because in the camp girl so many things happen to very people for example girl where sexual abused, forcedly married by rich men, and very many lost their life. I know through Butterfly Project’s training and education  I could become a great force in causing change ,empowering women to change their aspect of thinking girls are the weaker sex and are not bright  in school, and they are meant for house wife.  

My ambition of transforming my community into a better habitat for its people started long ago when I joined the Butterfly project and now I have a project called girl empowerment. I now dream to transform the World and the community around me because little bit of something to someone can mean the world to them before you know it  just as so many people supported  me in so many things it mean the world to me.