Drafts Man

Architectural designer

[Drafts Man @ABDY3113]

Commander gwe weka asobola okutubulila wali ewatuufu

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But where is Shamim Malende?

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[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

BUSINESS PERSONS vs BLACK TAX

One thing many business persons don’t talk about yet they struggle with is actually black tax.

Not everybody but many people out there assume business people have so much idle money which should be handed out.

The truth is whenever you see a real business person, pray for them because they have simply developed thick skins but struggle with a lot.

Am business person and I meet many business people who I often a get chance to have heart to heart business challenges.

One of the biggest threats for Ugandan owned businesses is black tax and contributes a lot to gap that exists between foreign owned businesses and local owned ones.

I have been to public offices where someone will help a foreign person not you but when they get a problem, they won’t run the foreign business person, they will seek help from you who they didn’t help.

A Ugandan business person is born in a large family, has a large pool of friends and associates with a big number with a lot of expectations of who they see as successful.

I for example belong to many groups as well which means there are calls for financial help, I probably see or receive a minimum of 20 per day.

Someone either needs school fees, someone has died, or sick, a wedding, graduation, charity this or that and all those require money.

Sometimes when someone has passed on and I say I will send what would have been my fuel and other expenses, some people will say why didn’t come as well?

Yes, when time and resources allows I can do both but rear, sometimes it’s 3 directions and it’s hard to choose, what about work? If you know many people, it’s even harder.

I always observe when I have contributed say ushs 100k to a challenge, some people get so shocked, only ushs 100k, especially those who contribute nothing

They most times they don’t know you have had to contribute to 10 challenges that day and figures add up so quickly. If you contributed ushs 100k to 20 challenges, that’s ushs 2m.

A business person has loans, suppliers, his personal dreams, family, some extended family members, salaries, taxes( many taxes) on their heads, they just don’t shout about these challenges.

HOW TO MANAGE!

I for example earn a monthly salary from my work place or places, they are the hand that feeds me and hundreds more and that salary is mainly for immediate family.

I have some small incomes on the side once in a while, it’s from that that I often sort out some of black tax challenges but I fight hard not cut off the hand that feeds me which is business.

Businesses support the work of Great Lakes foundation, amongst them are 2 hospitality training centers, pay fees and other things.

From my salary I plan for the rainy days as well because those days come to everyone and that’s means you won’t see me in those spending environments in nights. I have had expensive medical needs but discipline has helped me cover them.

I have also learnt to say no and still have a good night sleep, I struggled with that earlier in the business life and I almost closed business because I would give out business money to things that have nothing to do with it.

Those days, a guy would turn up and say I know you are busy, send me to the accountant, I would stupidly do that. They would inform another and before you know it, things are heading south.

I have also learnt to study situations before I commit to them, I will contribute to school fees if I have a plan to maintain paying. If I don’t have a plan I just say nope!

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

Rwanda built an international cricket stadium from the earth beneath the pitch itself.

Three parabolic vaults. Approximately 66,000 compressed soil-cement tiles, produced on-site using local earth, 95% soil, 5% cement, no firing required. The technique is an ancient Mediterranean one called tile vaulting, adapted by Light Earth Designs for East Africa and engineered at Cambridge University for seismic protection.

The vaults work entirely in compression. That’s the logic, when a structure pushes down and outward rather than pulling, you don’t need high-strength materials. Local earth becomes a structural material. Local unskilled workers become builders of a 16-metre spanning vault.

Nothing was wasted. Waste granite from Rwandan flooring worktops became the floors. The plywood used to press the tiles became countertops. The timber formwork became joinery and doors.

The shape mirrors Rwanda’s thousand hills and the parabola of a bouncing cricket ball. That’s not poetic license, the parabolic curve is the most efficient compression geometry. Form and function are the same thing here.

A building made by Rwandans, from Rwandan earth, for Rwanda.

📍 Rwanda Cricket Stadium, Kigali, 🇷🇼.
Architects: Light Earth Designs.
📷 Jonathan Gregson, Paul Broadie

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What a design? Luxurious place and completely fulfilling to live in.

[Mahmud Ibrahim @MahmudIbra33388]

IF YOU ARE AN
1. Architect
2. Interior Designer
3. Structural Engineer
4. Civil Engineer
5. Water &
6. Mechanical engineer.
8. Quantity Surveyor
11. Contractor
13. Member of any construction trend mason, bricklayer and capenter
.......and related fields
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[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

AFRICAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

WHERE - ENTEBBE UGANDA

MONTH - MAY 2026

ECONOMIC DISCUSSION

Entebbe, Uganda will host African chess tournament this month at the botanical gardens.

Chess players from over 30 African countries have confirmed attendance and Kenya alone will fielding 700 chess players and mainly juniors.

What does 700 chess players registration mean economically, first each junior player will come with one or 2 adults but let’s say one adult, those are 1400 people.

1400 people means 1400 opportunities in accommodations, restaurants, car hires, fuel stations , shopping, tourism activities, Bodas , guided services etc.

WHAT SHOULD ENTEBBE LEADERSHIP DO?

1 - They should get Makerere university research department to do economic value assessment!

2- Great an Entebbe annual chess championship with big money awards say usd 20k top winners, invest say usd 100k

3 - Convince African chess leadership that entebbe is a very great place to do it, make sure Entebbe is 100% for visitors.

4 - prepare the population to earn from this big opportunities by teaching the population about potential areas of earning.

5- Market Entebbe chess championship across the globe beyond Africa.

GUYS, THIS IS HOW TRUE LEADERSHIP SHOULD THINK AND ACT.

Tag ENTEBBE’s leadership

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When you love hosting.

Built in our usual craftsman rustic style with open terraces.

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[Amon 👷 @rwenzori_]

If you're a:
1. Architect
1. Interior Designer
4. Contractor
5. Civil engineer
Let's connect

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IF YOU LIKE ANY OF THESE:

• Architecture
• Civil Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Water Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Data Science
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All the 4 wingers were on 🔥🔥🔥🔥
But then that Short guy in PSG midfield was everywhere. Yes am talking about Joao Neves doing all the donkey work 🔥🔥🔥

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

EVENT ORGANIZERS IN UGANDA

Generally speaking, generally because a few do it right, events organizers don’t know how failure stems from basic things like time keeping!

Most people start organizing spaces at the time they said an event would start, that discourages people like me who value proper time use.

Unfortunately, it’s very accepted across board in Uganda. Yes, I know we have 2 planting season which means regardless of the sloppiness, we can still have a meal.

In tourism, we have a saying, it’s better 1hr early than 1 minute late and if you don’t have that thinking, never join tourism, you will never succeed.

If a tourist is arriving 8am, our safari guides are encouraged to be at the airport 7am and it’s a standard condition. You don’t appreciate that, you don’t work with us!

For RWENZORI MARATHON, anyone who has run @RwenzoriMarathn in kasese will tell you we have never started even 1 minute late in the last 4 marathons.

Many Ugandans have missed because they turned up late but what’s happening is that they now know, RWENZORI MARATHON will always start on time!

Behind the scenes, RWENZORI MARATHON organizing team wake ups around 6am on Friday, do a run, started preparing for the marathon on Saturday, work throughout Friday night, sleep midnight Saturday.

People can’t fly or drive from other countries for a well time marathon, well managed marathon only to find a sloppy group of organizers. If it works, it’s not luck, it’s efforts in invested.

Interestingly Ugandans in the UK for example align, value time, they keep time. If we started valuing time, slowly we would start seeing a growing economy.

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

GREAT LAKES SAFARIS LTD

25 YRS TODAY

Yesterday the birthday wishes were overwhelming and at one point I just gave up but remained grateful for all messages.

GREAT LAKES SAFARIS started on the 23rd of April 2001, a day after my 28th birthday.

I had spent my earlier years accumulating field experience and like I have always said, first thing you look for is a skill.

If money lands in your hands and finds without skills, that will definitely be a lost cause.

They say money can’t keep company with a fool. A fool with his money part company easily so they say!

The third picture represents my 3rd job, i worked as a tour guide earning about 5k every day I worked.

The first job I worked as a cleaner and second job I was an office messenger and all provided different experiences. It didnt matter that I was a leader throughout school days.

God helped me put my lifestyle in check upto today. It doesn’t matter how much you earn, how much you save, how much you invest, a bad lifestyle will always take you down!

In a good month, I would guide for about 15 days and some months I had nothing and therefore always saved for the rain day.

My rent was ushs 5k in slum room, used about 2k for food a week, katogo of beans and Casava would cost ushs 200 then.

I couldn’t afford 3 meals a day even with 2 planting seasons Uganda has, none of my friends can tell you I ever complained, needa.

The 3rd represents our 3rd office on Sussie house Nsambya when things had improved a lot, the first office was a briefcase one, then under the stairs was second.

In the fourth picture, you can see why I hate suits, I work hard to earn a right to dress how I want. We were celebrating 10yrs of Great Lakes safaris at Serena.

You can only grow money given to you when you have enough skills in handling it and that’s why the Japanese say money accounts for only 15% when starting a business.

Some people say, oh people don’t tell us all the stories, yes, imagine me telling about my daily frustrations with business? Some of you get tired by reading about my travels when am looking for business.

Yet you don’t see the whole picture!

You don’t see the lonely times we face in hotel rooms, the scary flights we continue to take, the failed negotiations, the malice some times.

We can only give you some pointers but the business experiences are very personal and different different days, weeks, months etc. Our lives aren’t predictable at all.

Business is majorly about solving problems by providing solutions. Some days one works less, some days i have to put in 20hrs of work.

Others like Rwenzori marathon days, I don’t sleep for 40hrs same as our whole team.Out there people say the celebrations and a good job done. Thats what matters!

We thank God for the 25yrs in business and can’t wait to see what God has for us in the next 25yrs.

[Drafts Man @ABDY3113]

@rwomchechen Rwomushana looks intelligent when his mouth is shut but the moment it starts opening hoooo

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Kimu babiri Dr Kiyingi Dr Kiyingi 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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But then the so called elites are thinking like wheelbarrow pushers. Intelligence equated to arrogance becomes useless slowly and that is where your heading Honourable

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Ekyana ki Mokwena kikoze kitya wano

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Byona tubiwulidde kati twagala gal child ayogere 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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The way Man city is struggling tells you why RODRI won the prize

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