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Daily Monitor
Sunday February 14 2021
About to leave formal work. Joe Billy Kisozi, a tutor at Ndegeya Core Primary Teacher’s College, Masaka has set up a farm to skill the youth in his community. PHOTO/WILSON KUTAMBA
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Joe Billy Kisozi, 59, is a tutor at Ndegeya Core Primary Teacher’s College in Masaka. He will retire in February 2022. For his retirement, Kisozi has set up a skill centre for the youth in his community.
Wilson Kutamba finds out more about Kisozi.
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From among fruit trees and flourishing plantation on his nearly half an acre of land Joe Billy Kisozi glances at us, then welcomes us.
Daily Monitor
Saturday February 13 2021
David Ntale checks his young coffee. The farmer has planted 60 acres of coffee. PHOTO/MICHEAL J SSALI.
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With money earned from selling coffee seedlings, David Ntale has been buying parcels of land since 2008 and planting coffee himself. He has bought the land in different neighbouring villages and he estimates it to be about 60 acres to date, mostly under coffee.
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The story of Mr David Ntale, proprietor of Vadip Farmers Centre, in Kiwangala Township, Lwengo District, adds meaning to the wisdom of encouraging young people to go to vocational schools as a way of job creation and reducing unemployment.