The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Comprehensive Institute last week saw off 6,562 graduands in a colourful two-day event at their Buwambo campus in Matugga.
The graduands received certificates and diplomas, of which 215 of them were rated first class. Addressing the 19th graduation ceremony, YMCA principal Herbert Mukasa said he was proud of his graduands as they had come through several quality academic checks.
He asked them to continue improving their skills to ensure a bright future.
“I urge you to use all your acquired knowledge to survive … [but] look closely at the option of self-employment as the theme of this graduation,” he said.
For his part, the institution’s chancellor, Dr James Luyonga Nkata, asked the institute’s management committee and other organs not to lose focus on the leadership challenges facing them.
“As the overseer of proper management of this institution, the work is commended. Keep going forward; what you have achieved is visible and gives you credibility,” he said.
Nkata asked the graduands to continually upgrade their studies.
“Not everybody passes through this stage. You are winners, you are a hunter who went to the forest to hunt and you have come back home with an animal,” he said, to mild laughter. “But as you share this animal ask yourself, did I leave a bigger animal, in the forest?”
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