Muwado – Africa's Storytelling Platform | Esther Kalenzi | Activity https://muwado.com/members/e-star/activity/ Activity feed for Esther Kalenzi. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:57:48 +0300 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 85855047cb8bf536ea529bfd7f5ab050 Esther Kalenzi just earned the Profile Complete badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36191/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:32 +0300 0 85855047cb8bf536ea529bfd7f5ab050 Esther Kalenzi just earned the First Follower badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36190/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:32 +0300 0 f3202152bfc83cfd7274f5395e30f164 Esther Kalenzi just earned the 500 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36189/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:31 +0300 0 b8035f1dbe5c1acdb4de3f52c9fb4b83 Esther Kalenzi just earned the 100 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36188/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:30 +0300 0 b8035f1dbe5c1acdb4de3f52c9fb4b83 Esther Kalenzi just earned the Monthly Consistent badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36187/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:30 +0300 0 1430d3b92eb4a5d20ff859d67f2860ea Esther Kalenzi just earned the Marathon Writer badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36186/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:29 +0300 0 cb2fc28ac48848faccbebe42aef8e528 Esther Kalenzi just earned the Storyteller badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36185/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:28 +0300 0 cb2fc28ac48848faccbebe42aef8e528 Esther Kalenzi just earned the First Story badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36184/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:28 +0300 0 b7e4e5c6b956b814515883559026f46d Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=38827 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:09:22 +0300 On this day, 10 years ago, I opened a Facebook group which I named 40 Days…over 40 smiles:-) The plan was to collect items and raise money for underprivileged children, whom I hadn’t yet identified by […]

]]> 3211941d0caf4183b5711d315e81f902 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=38823 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:49:47 +0300 Do you ever think about the pressure you have to encounter as you go through life?The pressure society puts on us, and then family/peers. In comes the very worst (in my opinion) the one we put on ourselves.When a […]

]]> a494a458fe72abc79ad2bc8706e019da Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=33066 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:40:31 +0300 One of my boda guys, *George* has been mesmerised by the 40 Days Over 40 Smiles Foundation backpacks since he first saw them.

If he had to make a delivery, he would start by saying something about the bag, at l […]

]]> 1add9a9f8f525c4e404fba5ad64422fe Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=31866 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:49:59 +0300 A few days ago, I bumped into a young woman. She introduced herself and said something which both caught my attention and humbled me at the same time.”I knew I would meet you one day and planned what I would say […]

]]> e5ec5ffbf646e441a9a097faa473936f Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=31863 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:40:38 +0300 Recently Hope* and I were catching up when I mentioned a project I am working on.Her first reaction was “Won’t the people who support 40 Days Over 40 Smiles Foundation think you are using their funds?”Much as I w […]

]]> 6c24476e84ab8779896c22235f853992 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=31850 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:00:25 +0300 November is here and I’m still kind of in denial? Like, how? It’s been such a long and short year simultaneously – something I can’t quite remember feeling/saying about any year before this.Last month I was all […]

]]> ab5ee00d54f5121d77ce5836e9efa2f7 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=31627 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:04:37 +0300 I was invited to participate in a Leadership course a couple of months ago. While in the past I have said “Let me get back to you” only to mostly choose everything else over opportunities like this that benefit me […]

]]> d82f806bc4a0c717a443d70188498a35 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=31622 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:51:25 +0300 I have been thinking a lot about pain.The pain of lossThe hurt which comes with rejection, loneliness, emptiness -The aches, physical, mental, emotionalThe trauma, which remains long after the event -I have been […]

]]> 60192510e5f0b9923c7d537ab0949901 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=31619 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:40:05 +0300 Background.One of Denis’ parents works with my friends’ family. Let us call the friend Carol.I knew that Denis had gone to a foreign country and hadn’t heard about him in a while. One random night in May, I failed […]

]]> 62f7250aee9e76db9b47fb21f98c10db Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=30752 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 05:03:11 +0300 Are you a light sleeper, an insomniac, or worse still both?😮Personally, mosquitoes have traumatised me. Once I hear one buzzing, they might as well be 53 playing in an orchestra. My nights are spent co […]

]]> 23ecebf44816fa914428cc6b3ec70086 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=28698 Sat, 02 May 2020 17:55:07 +0300 I find myself more desperate for happy, silly, sweet, funny or heartwarming stories in this season. You know that your heartstrings are guaranteed a good pull by Humans of New York, and Goodable on Twitter, among […]

]]> a17378ff35042b7de4ff151ec8834a34 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=28578 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 05:42:27 +0300 Recently, I bumped into someone whom I’d met once before. Part of the conversation went like this

Me: Hi Vanessa*
Her: Oh, I wonder who told you my name. We are used to people like you ignoring people like […]

]]> ed3d1164443fd592aba3618357affb32 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=26397 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:05:34 +0300 Flowers, I never gave them much thought. I liked to see them in gardens and they looked beautiful but that was it. When I realised how much Mama loved them, plants in general, I took a deeper interest in […]

]]> b94c1ae929701ddba9bb830fd6c45793 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=26276 Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:48:41 +0300 Yesterday was the deadline for this simple yet complicated application. Simple because I had all the answers, complicated because I’ve never known how to switch up the ‘tone’ to make it appealing. I’d thought […]

]]> 218f2bb57637c79932b4ac3ade45e360 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=13658 Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:13:15 +0300 You are here You average 5 job applications a week, but always get just close enough He hates his job but it pays the bills You followed your dreams yet most days it […]

]]> 808d1e7cc2dd278f45df4cddfb852570 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13524 Fri, 25 May 2018 09:09:48 +0300 A little while ago, my colleague and I had a meeting with the CSR Manager at a leading Ugandan institution.I will call her Madeline. She was really apologetic for keeping us waiting. She was generally a warm, […]

]]> 96da3ea981f0a358798f2148908147c1 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=2350 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:10:58 +0300 Two days ago I sent an email (one of many) to a certain company asking them if 40/40 could tap into their CSR budget this year. This was the response I received today;
“Thanks for your email.
I will be very honest […]

]]> fbc52c98f12926d86f5e83ab69041c16 Esther Kalenzi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=2024 Thu, 22 May 2014 07:11:38 +0300 Benezeri Wanjala Chibita on becoming a champion On November 9th last year, I watched Benezeri Wanjala Chibita perform. His song was fairly new and not many people knew it or him for that matter. About a […]

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