Veronica 'Jeniffer' Mukhwana, Primary School Teacher, Lay-Midwife, 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 Teaching Service to become more involved in Vocational Education and Community Health work supporting young girls, women and other minorities groups in their reproductive health care, self-help projects and entrepreneurship skills. These skills included a wide-range of learning needs: Tailoring & Design, Knitting and Poultry Care — for Economic and Self-Sustainability to address Uganda’s major livelihood issues of poverty, domestic violence and personal health at the household level.
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In 2002, she initiated the formation of a Vocational Training Centre called the ‘Jenan Training & Education Centre’ in 2002 that operated from her family home. In a related approach, Jeniffer also voluntarily joined the Ugandan Health Sector in 2006 to train as a Nursing Assistant — bringing her teaching skills to serve the reproductive Health of women and girls. In this role, she worked with skilled nurses as a Lay-Midwife at Kirinya Health Centre 11 in Uganda’s rural Wakiso District. With these projects, Jeniffer received an overwhelming number of young girls 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 certiiying as a Personal Support Worker — specializing in care of the elderly. Jeniffer first connected with NIGH’s team at the Caux Conference Centre in Switzerland where she was focused on using education approaches to cross-cultural understanding between religious groups, particularly between Christians and Muslims. 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.
Jeniffer would also like to acknowledge the expert assistance of her Kiswahili language colleague Mr. Muwonge Ismail Musoke.
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Now living In Canada, Jeniffer has extended her several skills by training and certiiying as a Personal Support Worker — specializing in care of the elderly. Jeniffer first connected with NIGH’s team at the Caux Conference Centre in Switzerland where she was focused on using education approaches to cross-cultural understanding between religious groups, particularly between Christians and Muslims. 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.
Jeniffer would also like to acknowledge the expert assistance of her Kiswahili language colleague Mr. Muwonge Ismail Musoke.
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