MEET THE STUDENTS
Senior Five Chemistry, Serere Township Secondary School
OTIJA STEVEN MOSES
Chairperson
Career goal: Doctor
I am a Sererian, and I enjoy socializing with people of all aspects of life. I like football, athletics, spiritual aspects of life and education as it drives me to a better tomorrow.
Importance of this project:
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The project keeps the environment and society looking good as we green it with nice flowers and pasture
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The project helps us turn waste into good materials (ie. wastes into manure/fertilizers) that perfect life of our crops and pastures, thus avoiding littering of the environment with waste.
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This project takes me beyond my standards of learning and thus develops me mentally on how to handle the environment.
ANYIPO PEACE GRACE
Deputy Chairperson
Career goal: Doctor
I have an interest in being a doctor simply because I feel I should help save lives since many people are toiling in hospitals with different sicknesses. I have an interest to serve people rather than gain money for myself.
All of us should value and have concern of our lives and other peoples' lives because they are created in God's likeness. Let's act as problem solvers in any way we can rather than being problem causes.
Importance of this project:
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Increased my thinking capacity to utilize whatever I have to solve a problem.
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I believe as we continue we will gain more valuable knowledge for future survival before we get jobs to earn a living. It is a great project that puts science into practice to solve everyday life problems.
OKIROR MICHEAL OPOLOT
Speaker
Career goal: Doctor
I like singing, particularly reggae music; also football; preaching God’s word because I am meant to do it; also reading scientific information. “As you move on, understand that there will be many people who will discourage and demean you in your first attempts.” Never be afraid of bungling because it is part of the learning process. Please join in with us to make the world a nice place to stay.
Importance of this project:
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Learn how to turn different materials like urine (waste), bones, banana peelings and animal refuse into different fertilizers like liquid fertilizer, bone meal, and so on.
BUA JOSHUA
Deputy Speaker
Career goal: Surgeon
I am interested to do medicine and surgery, reason being I want to lower the cost of treatment to our people in Africa if I become a doctor. I would also like, if not being a doctor, to be a high school teacher, teaching biology and chemistry.
Importance of the project:
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We are learning how to solve different problems like soil infertility because we know how to make fertilizers that we can apply in our soil.
ISINA LEAH
Treasurer
Career goal: Doctor
Importance of this project:
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It is a kind of source of employment and can improve on the agricultural method that is combating infertile soil and improving on the nutrient for plant growth.
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It gives an idea on how to handle life of every living organism, for example the source of raw materials used and its application.
EKALET JEREMIAH
General Secretary
Career goal: Doctor
Above all, I am also the class captain in our class. I would like you to continue praying for our project. May God bless you as you join us in the project, advising and encouraging us in all situations.
Importance of this project:
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It encouraged me to be able to get good yield in crops grown and also utilizing wastes products like urine for growth of plants.
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Above all, it enables me to solve the problem of soil erosion in my home area.
OKIRIA JOHN
Purchasing Manager
Career goal: Doctor
I am a Ugandan, aged nineteen years, and I am in A’ level with combination Biology/Chemistry/Agriculture. I like socializing with people. I love education so much. I like this project too, and I love saving people’s lives. This is what I want to be a doctor. i would like help with advice to boost up my career.
Importance of this project:
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It has helped me apply science into practical work.
ECHODU IVAN MOSES
Purchasing Manager
Career goal: Doctor
Importance of this project:
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It equips learners and other local and wide scale farmers on how to manufacture and use both organic and inorganic fertilizers to boost the growth of crops.
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It also gives knowledge of making and distributing manufactured products in return for money for self sustenance.
OBALEL JAMES MICHAEL
MOBILIZER
Career goal: Teacher
I am interested to be a teacher after my ‘A’ study and am interested in learning and serving after getting the formation. I like playing football in my leisure time.
Importance of this project:
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This project is important in so many ways. For example, helping how to control soil erosion and also helps to know how to make fertilizer and apply them.
LOOJD ALEX
MOBILIZER
Career goal: Clinical Officer
This project is not meant for only the township but also to the outside nations. I will be very glad to hear someone wishing to know where we are located for more information
OMODING EDWARD COLLINS
INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY
Career goal: Doctor of Electronics
I am interested in this career because in Uganda, the level of technology is not all that very developed and I am willing to be the one who will help Uganda technologically.
Importance of this project:
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In Uganda, agriculture is our home background. This helps me to know how to apply fertilizers to plants and to boast their growth for better yields.
ACTIVE MEMBERS
ACHOROI EMMANUEL OKODAN
Importance of this project:
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My interest in this project is that brings out how chemistry knowledge can be applied in agriculture work, which is the backbone of Africans.
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Though I do not do agriculture in A-level but I ought to apply my chemistry knowledge where it is required.
AKELLO OLIVER AGA
Career goal: Teacher, Engineer
I like watching movies and playing with other age mates of mine and young animals like cats and also playing football.
Importance of this project:
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Helped the learners to know the ways of improving on the quality of crops grown.
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Helped the learners to know the types of crops to be grown in different soil pH.
AMUNYO JULIET
Career goal: Doctor
I am a Ugandan by nationality and Itesot by tribe.
Importance of this project:
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Provided knowledge on how to make fertilizers out of some materials like bone meal.
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It has enabled me to know the time of the application of fertilizers like urea, bone meal, and fertilizers on crops.
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It has enabled me to identify which fertilizer suitable for each crop.
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It has enable me to know the measures to soil erosion by making bare areas green.
ARODU JOSEPH
Career goal: Doctor
Importance of this project:
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It has enabled me to know how different fertilizers can improve the yielding of our crops and also fertility of the soils when they are applied on the soil.
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It has enabled me to use the chemistry to bring out the wasteful products into use.
ECODU ISAAC
Career goal: Doctor
I am a student in Serere Township, aged eighteen years, living in Serere district and in addition to that I am running a small poultry farm in my village.
Importance of this project:
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It helps to equip learners with more knowledge on how to apply different fertilizers and the methods used in farming.
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It helps to examine the growth rate of different crops in the field like cowpeas and maize.
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It creates a relationship between people in one country with other countries, as we are sharing this knowledge with you.
EUDO LAMBERT
Career goal: Doctor
Importance of this project:
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I like farming and this project can help me improve my farming activities to chase for my career.
EYANU JAMES KOKAJ
Career goal: Doctor, surgery
Importance of this project:
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It enables me to know how to plants grow on different conditions, pH and fertilizer application and formation of inorganic fertilizers onto the plants.
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It enables to us explain the good and bad of the fertilizers and the type of plants to be used so that parents can also get to know and do this on their own.
OBUIN ROBERT
Career goal: Doctor
I am interested to help the people in this world to have a positive attitude on how to improve on the production of healthy plants to the community to avoid disease which may come out of consuming unclean foods.
Importance of this project:
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It has made me to become a responsible person and focus on preventing soil erosion.
ODEKE PAUL
Career goal: Pharmacist, Teacher
I like project investing because it creates employment opportunities and self reliance, avoiding dependence on the government for jobs.
OKUNI JOHN JUSIINE
Career goal: Bio-chemical engineering, Pharmacy
I like research in bio-chemistry basically on how the body of living organisms respond to chemicals and what and where these reactions take place. Also, I am interested in applying the knowledge got from theoretical work into practical work.
Importance of this project:
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It has enabled me to apply my theoretical knowledge into practical work.
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It improves on my research and proves what theoretical knowledge got is true about something or not, other experiments can be made.
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Theoretical knowledge can be experimented and observations, explanations, and deductions can be made baring on what is happening on the ground.
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Has encouraged me to research more about the world of science.
OMODING PATRIC
Importance of this project:
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To solve problems that have resulted form persistent use of pesticides
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It has paved the way for me to be able to chat with someone from the US
OPOLOT GABRIEL
Career goal: Doctor, Teacher
I am a student in S.5 science. When I am free, I like playing football. I play number 9 and 10 in the field. I study in Serere district but am located in Amuria district, a district within Teso Region.
I am a student of Serere Township SS in Serere district in Uganda. According to the subjects I do is Biology, Chemistry, and Maths forming a combination of BCM/ICT taking a course of being a doctor because life is nothing without health and also would like to be a teacher if money of becoming a doctor is not adequate.
Importance of this project:
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Learn how to improve soil fertility
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To get a difference of applying a fertilizer and not applying fertilizers on crops
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I can get money very fast when I go home by selling my yields like peas.
OSIRE PETER
Career goal: Lawyer
I want to become a lawyer because we are all leaders of this country, and I feel after my education, I will be in position to fight for freedom for the less privileged like poor, widows, orphans, who the few rich people tend to take advantage. Let’s join hands and fight against corruption.
Importance of this project:
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With the few skills we have learned, we are in position to make our own fertilizers and since agriculture is the backbone of Uganda, we shall use them for improving agriculture in our communities and Uganda as a whole.