Veronica ‘Jeniffer’ Mukhwana
NIGH Council of Advisors / Kiswahili Language Advisor
Primary School Teacher, Lay-Midwife, PTA/OTA, PSW
NIGH Council of Advisors / Kiswahili Language Advisor
Primary School Teacher, Lay-Midwife, PTA/OTA, PSW
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Veronica ‘Jeniffer’ Mukhwana qualified as a Ugandan Primary School Teacher in 1988 and worked with the Government Aided Primary School called Kalinabiri Primary School in Nakawa Division for 12 Years.
She then voluntarily left this career to become a lay-midwife who assisted only one nurse assigned to support all delivering mothers and their infants for the Kirinya Health Centre 11 in Uganda’s vast rural Wakiso District. She was also was involved in related 'Vocational Education & Community Health' work supporting young girls and women in their reproductive health care, self-help projects |
and entrepreneurship skills. These skills included a wide-range of learning needs to address Uganda’s major livelihood issues of poverty, domestic violence, and personal health. In 2002, she initiated the formation of a Vocational Training Centre called the ‘Jenan Training & Education Centre’ that operated from her family home.
With all these projects, Jeniffer received and supported an overwhelming number of young girls and women who had dropped out of school for many reasons, including: school administration dismissals/suspensions, sexual orientations, domestic violence, and becoming orphans upon the death of parents as a result of HIV/AIDs.
Now living In Canada, Jeniffer has extended her several skills by training and certifying as a Personal Support Worker — specializing in care of the elderly — and has recently completed certifications for Occupational and Physical Therapy in support of Canadian health care.
Jeniffer first connected with NIGH’s team in 2010 at the Caux Conference Centre in Switzerland where she — and her husband Andrew — were focused on using education approaches to cross-cultural understanding between religious groups, particularly between Christians and Muslims.
As an exemplary 'citizen activist', she has since collaborated with NIGH on a number of projects and her Lay-Midwifery work has been featured as a story about achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fighting malaria in Uganda.
We are also most grateful that Jeniffer has collaborated with us to create the Kiswahili version of the Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World. She would also like to acknowledge the expert assistance of her Kiswahili language colleague Mr. Muwonge Ismail Musoke.
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With all these projects, Jeniffer received and supported an overwhelming number of young girls and women who had dropped out of school for many reasons, including: school administration dismissals/suspensions, sexual orientations, domestic violence, and becoming orphans upon the death of parents as a result of HIV/AIDs.
Now living In Canada, Jeniffer has extended her several skills by training and certifying as a Personal Support Worker — specializing in care of the elderly — and has recently completed certifications for Occupational and Physical Therapy in support of Canadian health care.
Jeniffer first connected with NIGH’s team in 2010 at the Caux Conference Centre in Switzerland where she — and her husband Andrew — were focused on using education approaches to cross-cultural understanding between religious groups, particularly between Christians and Muslims.
As an exemplary 'citizen activist', she has since collaborated with NIGH on a number of projects and her Lay-Midwifery work has been featured as a story about achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fighting malaria in Uganda.
We are also most grateful that Jeniffer has collaborated with us to create the Kiswahili version of the Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World. She would also like to acknowledge the expert assistance of her Kiswahili language colleague Mr. Muwonge Ismail Musoke.
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