KIU, Western Campus – Paul Womaungo, a prominent students’ leader at KIU Western Campus, says that the university is offering him a platform to nurture his leadership abilities by virtue of the various positions he holds.

The third-year Bachelor of Clinical Medicine and Community Health student is the vice-president of the Red Cross club, Secretary General in the Students Guild, a Member of Parliament for the School of Allied Health Sciences and a class representative.

“KIU is giving me the perfect platform for nurturing my leadership abilities because I already hold different positions here, which gives me a lot of experience,” Womaungo says.

“Also, through participating in the debates that are organized here like the inter-faculty debate competition where I won a gold medal, I get very important public speaking skills that can help me in future,” he adds.

He is eternally grateful to KIU for putting him on course to achieve his childhood dream of becoming a doctor by offering him a bursary to pursue his studies.

“I first applied to join another university but I had challenges of tuition since I only depend on my mum and my aunt as sponsors yet they have other children to look after. But luckily, KIU offered me a 40% bursary and I was able to come to school,” he reveals.

Womaungo advises anyone who wants to pursue a university education to consider KIU as their first option because it has well-equipped laboratories and high-quality lecturers as well as the fact that it has a teaching hospital which helps in training students.

He wants to use the knowledge he gets from KIU when he completes his studies to save lives by advocating for preventive rather than curative measures of dealing with diseases.

“Preventive measures of handling diseases are cheaper compared to curative measures because drugs are more expensive and some of them predispose you to more disorders since they have many side effects,” he notes.

He shares some of the challenges he has faced since coming to university like being confused by the hustle and bustle of the university environment especially in the beginning.

Womaungo says he would not have made it thus far without the help of his mother Constance Namuhenge and his aunt Lorna Nafuna who have been there for him all the way from Primary one until now when he is on the verge of completing his studies.