I had to put aside my degree from Makerere University Business School (MUBS) for a job as a maid in the Middle East.
I had become hopeless after almost 10 years of studies, graduation and travel passport acquisition expecting flights for bigger opportunities overseas.
I had never thought of turning to a job of maid as an opportunity, says Vivien Mugenyi Mpanja using anaphora.
A bigger opportunity from maid
With roots in Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom royal clan, Mpanja had lived a smooth life until things turned against her all of a sudden while in Kampala as she points out in her anecdote.
“Amidst numerous escalating challenges, I found myself as the bread winner for my mother and siblings. My 10-year-old travel passport had just a year to expire when the opportunity I primarily undermined knocked as the last resort,” she narrates.
I was the last to board the plane as I was still being intercepted, she adds.
‘You shouldn’t go because you will die in the Middle East!’ “But I said ‘I must go because even if I stay in Uganda, I am nothing. I have been chased away where I was staying. Even in Uganda I will die,” Mpanja narrates.
Mpanja turns into an Executive Secretary
Mpanja finally lands in the Middle East and starts working in Abu Dhabi as a maid as expected.
“I forgot about my education and family background and served committedly. Little did I know that I was being monitored by the boss’s representative,” she says.
Later, Mpanja’s boss returns home and asks her some questions on her background and consequently appoints her as Procurement Officer for her company. Mpanja still demonstrates honesty and commitment which was a license to her promotion to the job of Executive Secretary.
“I ended up serving as an Executive Secretary of a motor company which is currently moving on well,” she tells Kazi-njema News.
After serving her tenure, Mpanja returns home and starts Vivien Ministries under which she preaches the gospel of Christ in Hoima city.
She is also a motivational speaker based on her experience to give hope to the hopeless.
“I found it important that I should share this experience,” she says.
Twenty thousand shillings is the entry fee for one to hear from the motivational speakers whose thrilling words as they step out on the podium one by one create an imagery that nobody will disremember immediately after the curtains will be raised at 2 O’clock in the afternoon, for a show set on Friday, October 25, 2024, a Hoima Resort Hotel in Hoima city.
She will be the host of other motivational speakers from where she will expound on the metaphorical peaks and valleys experienced in the journey of her life’s complexities.
