This article was first published on the New Vision website on May 4, 2023
By Maria Wamala
Musician Sheebah Karungi has been appointed Victoria University’s career ambassador.
Sheebah revealed that she dropped out of school in senior two because her mother was too poor to afford school fees for her education and provide for her essential needs.
Now one of Uganda’s music stars, she urged students to do what they love and feed their minds with constructive material to succeed in life, saying this is what has propelled her to new heights.
“I have a pads company because my mother could not afford sanitary pads for me while I was young. I promised myself that when I get money, the first business I will invest in is a pads company. Girls are missing class because they have no pads. I am going to fight so that each and every girl in every corner of Uganda can afford a sanitary pad. If you believe in it, see it, visualise it, chase it, you have got it,” Sheeba told students.
This was after signing an agreement with Victoria University to become their career ambassador during the launch of the career readiness and employability program at the university in Kampala on May 3, 2023.
Victoria University vice-chancellor, Prof. Lawrence Muganga, said “Through the career readiness and employability programme, we nurture our students to enter the workforce with knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to a particular career path. This includes a range of factors such as education, work experience, and vocational training.”
“The program is an avenue that reinforces authenticity for our students, influencing them to be globally relevant and impactful, not only academically, but also in their contribution to their society’s well-being,” Muganga added.
