UGANDA: YCS elect New Executive Committee at the 34th Council Meeting
By Jacinta W. Odongo, Media Officer, Uganda Episcopal Conference
The National Council of Uganda Young Christian Students (UYCS) has elected new members of the national executive committee to work for the next two years.
The election, which took place in Kampala Ecclesiastical Province, was held last month on September 16, 2016 during the 34th Council Meeting, a day prior to the official YCS celebration to mark its 60th anniversary.
Those elected to the National Executive Committee include Moses Ojok a student from Makerere University as national coordinator, Vicky Adong (Makerere University) as vice coordinator, Agnes Chandiru (Kampala University) as general secretary and Priscilla Birungi (Makerere University Business School/MUBS) as the assistant general secretary.
Others are Proscovia Ariok, a student from Kampala University, elected in charge of Publicity and Charles Mutabaazi also from MUBS as the treasurer.
Speaking after the election, Ojok said his committee will do its best to reach out to as many schools as possible to sensitize Ugandan youth on opportunities available in different areas and to support their development.
“We also look forward to evangelize to fellow students, to stay up-to-date with our chaplains in church activities and to remain accountable and transparent in our work,” Ojok said adding “We shall work as team to achieve these long-term goals during my time in office.”
Ojok succeeds Henry Rwakahangi, who was the former coordinator of the YCS movement in Uganda, and his outgoing team.
Meanwhile, Rev. Fr. Benedict Mugerwa, the National Youth Chaplain, congratulated the new leaders upon their elections and urged them to take action in the world around them.
“YCS is a movement that is completely run for, by and owned by the students. Its aim is to make a student’s world a better and happier place to live in both spiritually and materially for them to be able to bring out positive change in the society,” he explained.
In Uganda, YCS was founded by a Belgian Priest, Rev. Fr. Albert Fleskens at St. Mary’s College in Kisubi then later spread to the whole country. UYCS is present in all the 19 Dioceses in the country and, it is found in more than five schools in each Diocese.
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