MASEREKA EDISON

Founder @the_platform_ug Teacher @LLuzira-Guild Speaker Emeritus @BusitemaUni- Public Speaker -Leader-Toast Master- Ardent Reader -SDA

[Dr. Ronnie Mich Egwang @DrMichER]

The quality of a panel discussion is rarely determined by the experts on stage. It is determined by the person guiding the conversation.

A skilled moderator doesn't just ask questions. They create clarity, manage energy, balance voices, challenge assumptions, and turn expertise into audience value.

When expert panels fail, it's usually not because there was a lack of knowledge. It's because there was a lack of direction.

Your role is not to be the loudest voice in the room. Your role is to bring out the best voices in the room.
What's the biggest mistake you've seen panel moderators make?

#ManagingExpertPanels #DrMich #SayItLikeItIs #EventModerator #Leadership #PublicSpeaking #PanelDiscussion #ConferenceSpeaker #AudienceEngagement #EventManagement #ProfessionalSpeaking #CommunicationSkills

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Sometimes we say we’ve done everything the people we admire did but we’ve failed to achieve their ‘success’. Although sometimes they don’t tell us all, it might not necessarily mean that they hid something about their ‘success’. At times, it is because we try to literally apply ideas that were helpful at a time different from ours. What made my father successful may not work for me.

It is helpful to read or listen to experiences of those we admire. However this should always go along with understanding our own times and their uniqueness (if any); and understanding our own abilities. Sometimes we admire people with natural abilities and privileges that we neither have nor can achieve; where trying to follow their path can only lead to frustration. Do not imitate or consume biographies uncritically, analyse and find out what could fit you and your world.

[Silver Springs Adventist Church, Mutungo Hill @sdasilverspring]

Serve faithfully where God has placed you

#excellenceinservice

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell explained why some people succeed and some don't.

[Silver Springs Adventist Church, Mutungo Hill @sdasilverspring]

Kids Devotional: God Has a Plan for You
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord… “plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11, NIV)

#kidsdevotions

[Silver Springs Adventist Church, Mutungo Hill @sdasilverspring]

New week. New mercy. New strength.
“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.” — Lamentations 3:22, NIV

May this week be blessed.

[MASEREKA EDISON @Maserekae2]

Kindly take note📌📌

[Dr. Bireete Sarah @SarahBireete]

Fun Factory ekoze etya? 😂😂

No one beats Ugandans in humor 😂😂
#BakozeBatya

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

KAZOORA has a message for MINISTRY OF HEALTH

Killing the economy!

[Mwami lu @lulanzeashirafu]

KAMPALA’S PARADOX: BROKE, BUT EVERYTHING IS BOOKED

Kampala defies economics. Every weekday morning, timelines are full of “money has refused,” “ground is tight,” and screenshots of empty Mobile Money wallets. Ask ten friends for 50k to fix your car and nine will send ICU-level voice notes about money “stuck on the high seas” or a relative struck by lightning. The tenth will blue-tick you forever. Online, the city looks one bad day from returning to the village to farm.

Then Friday 11:30 PM arrives. Try finding parking near a bar in Nakawa, Kololo, Bugolobi, or Kira Road. You won’t. The jam inside the parking lot beats Jinja Road at rush hour. Who’s buying pork platters that wipe out a pig family tree? The same people who were begging in your inbox at 9 AM. We’re a city of professional mourners who cry poverty while holding premium beer. Broke, but broke with class.

Weddings explain it. A couple on entry-level salaries with no savings for a sofa will plan an 80-million-shilling event. They create a WhatsApp group, hold weekly meetings, and pressure friends to pledge 500k. Skip it and you’re labeled a witch. On the day, decorations cost more than the groom’s annual salary. By Monday, the couple is back in their rented house with zero balance, wondering about charcoal.

Funerals are worse. They’re now high-budget productions. People who never sent money for hospital bills chair the burial committee. Budgets cover sound systems, five tents, city caterers in the village, and gold-handled caskets. Thirty Subarus and Harriers burn fuel like water to Budaka or Masaka. We can’t afford healthcare alive, but we’ll spend millions for a luxury send-off.

Church completes the cycle. The same people dodging landlords Saturday show up Sunday in designer suits, cars running on fumes. Celebrity pastors say your business is failing because your tithe lacks “spiritual weight,” then ask for a 500k “prophetic seed.” A man owing school fees will empty his pocket at the altar, convinced a miracle will hit his Mobile Money by Monday.

School fees season is psychological warfare. A kindergarten circular reads like a national budget. Beyond tuition, parents must bring army-sized toilet paper, brooms, reams of paper, and sugar. Graduates haul brooms like herbalists. We curse the schools, but opening day brings a traffic jam of fuel-guzzlers dropping off kids with snacks for a village. We pay because an expensive school is 70% education, 30% status.

Kampala survives on side hustles, selective broke-ness, and rotating debt. No one lives on salary alone. The HR manager imports iPhones by 2 PM. We move landlords to tears over rent, then spend 250k on concert tickets that night. Money just circulates from Airtel Money to MTN Mobile Money. Everyone owes everyone.

Kampala squeezes you with potholes and power cuts, then a friend calls with “two mutual bottles on the table.” We’re broke, stressed, and in the red. But with God’s grace, good music, and Ugandan audacity, we survive.

Which Kampala “scam” is draining you most: corporate loans, wedding committees, school requirements, or celebrity pastors?

✍🏼: Deox

[THE PLATFORM UGANDA @the_platform_ug]

Our Team Lead @Maserekae2 Concluded a Two day HEAP Report Validation Workshop with FAWE Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He ably represented us as well as sharing his experiences as a HEAP scholarship alumni.

Thank you for representing us so ably on the continental stage! 🌍✈️

[MASEREKA EDISON @Maserekae2]

@wekesa_amos @_GL_Collection For Secondary Schools in Eastern Uganda, a stage is being set up in Jinja Kiira College Butiki. Schools in the East are gathering on July 10th for the biggest Schools competition. Give your students a chance! Register today through the numbers on the flier.

[SDAs On 𝕏 @AdventistOnX]

In serving Him, you lack nothing. Be at peace. Happy sabbath 🤎

[MASEREKA EDISON @Maserekae2]

Early this week, I attended a 2-Day FAWE/Mastercard Foundation Phase 1 Program ETE Validation Meeting at the Marriott Hotel Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was wonderful experience and I ably shared my experiences as a Program alumni. Many thanks to @FAWEUganda for the opportunity.

[THE PLATFORM UGANDA @the_platform_ug]

We remain grateful! ✨🙏

Till next time! Vamos👊

[FAWE Africa @FAWEAfrica]

“...This evaluation gives us another opportunity to transform practice and deliver even stronger, more responsive programming.” – Ms. Teresa Omondi-Adeitan, FAWE Deputy Executive Director.
#Educate2Elevate

[FAWE Africa @FAWEAfrica]

Uganda, Rwanda & Ethiopia to reflect on 10 years of impact, learning & transformation in education. 🌍📚
Speaking during the opening session, FAWE Deputy Executive Director said:..

[FAWE Africa @FAWEAfrica]

“Ten years later, the stories of transformation continue to speak for themselves.” ✨
#Day1 of the FAWE/Mastercard Foundation Phase I Program ETE Validation Meeting in Addis Ababa brought together stakeholders from..

[THE PLATFORM UGANDA @the_platform_ug]

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[THE PLATFORM UGANDA @the_platform_ug]

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