A 28-year-old man in Kagoma, Wakiso district, has said President Yoweri Museveni’s ghetto initiative is already turning his life around.

After spending years looking for a job without success, Brian Okema was almost giving up when Museveni launched the Presidential Ghetto Initiative, a programme through which the president has been giving out money to youth groups in and around Kampala. Launched last month, the initiative was targeting youth living in slum areas such as Kisenyi, Kamwokya, Kibuye, Nsambya, Kagoma, Busega and Najjanankumbi among others.