Qualification: M.A. Management in Non-Profit-Organisations 2014
University of Osnabrück, Germany, Post Graduate Diploma in Public Administration and Management- Uganda Management Institute (UMI), B.A. Social Sciences and German Makerere University-Kampala
From: Kasese District
Time at the College: since 2007
Godfrey is an enthusiastic, dedicated and highly committed professional with extensive skills and knowledge across areas of Non-profit and general management. An exceptional team player, who is able to develop and motivate others to achieve targets, has demonstrated a strong ability to work in a multicultural environment. A proactive individual with a logical approach to challenges and who greatly performs effectively even within a highly pressurised working environment and with minimal supervision
Godfrey is a Co-Founder and a Executive Director of the Rwenzori Vocational College and was born and raised in Kasese District near the Congolese Border in Ihandiro Sub County. He finished his B.A. in Social Sciences (Political Science and German) at the Makerere University in Kampala and worked as; Coordinator at Stiftung Klima Schützen-Damit kinder leben können, a Gender and Advocacy Office at KALI, Project/Extension Officer at the East African Botanicals Uganda Limited and as a research assistant on several socio-economic surveys and project evaluations.
In 2007 Godfrey and colleagues saw the need in a reliable and affordable vocational skills training in Kasese District and so the Rwenzori Vocational College was born to skill the local community with quality training and create a self reliant community
He kept improving his German skills after his Bachelor and in 2012 he secured a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to further his education at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück-Germany where he graduated with an M.A. in Management of Non-Profit Organisation in 2014. In addition to this, he undertook different online courses such as “Work Smarter, Not Harder” Time management for personal and professional productivity by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) , International organisations management by the University of Geneva, communication in the 21st Century by the University of California, Irvine (UCI). While studying abroad he continued working on the development of the Rwenzori Vocational College and after his Master Degree he gladly decided not to stay in Europe but to come back to Kasese to develop the college further and contribute to the development of his community.
During his studies at the University in Osnabrück, Godfrey offered voluntary service to the International students office and Caritas osnabrück and supported the development of student initiatives key among them being the friend Family Programme and Kaffeepartnerschaft an initiative between the international students and the elderly.
The students and the staff see in Godfrey a person who is always motivated to achieve the set goals and deliver results when they are needed. He chose responsibility over money when he chose to his job with the German foundation. He is motivated by his dream of improving living conditions and future perspectives of young people in the area by providing quality, education and is eager to work hard to make his dream a reality: as Roosevelt put it, “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”, indeed if you dream something then you will have it. So if you dream you work towards this dream.