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Justine Murungi is a
graduate of Leisure and Hospitality Management from Makerere University
Business School. She stands out because she got a part-time job immediately
after Senior Six results were released by Uganda National Examinations Board
(UNEB) in 2017. During her year, she emerged the best Senior Six student in the
whole of Mubende district in Central Uganda. This prompted Murungi’s former school
to offer her a part-time job. She was tasked to teach A-level students. She
taught History and Christian Religious Education over the weekends. As some of
her course mates went out to have fun over the weekends, Murungi was busy
teaching. She could travel on Friday and return to Kampala on Sunday night or
Monday morning to attend lectures. After graduation, she continued teaching since
it was the only thing that would occupy her.
During internship at
Kampala Serena Hotel, Murungi realised the need to venture into tourism, since
she was passionate about the sector. As she was contemplating her next step, a
friend sent her a link with information about the Work Readiness Programme. She
was interested so applied.
“It had a lot of things to fill, but I made
sure that I filled everything, and I went through,” she says.
Murungi was attached
to Adventure in the Wild Limited, a Tour and Travel company located in
Najjanankumbi, along Entebbe Road to acquire hands on skills. She started writing
content that could be shared with potential tourists on the company’s website. The
content gives a detailed report of different tourist attractions in Uganda and
different types of animals found in the various national parks. According to
her, the training helped her to have a feel for the practical part of her
profession.
“I had never been to any tour company but when
I came here, our director gave me an opportunity to learn. I can write good
content about various tourist attractions,” she says. “Basically, when you are
still at university, we focus so much on grades, but they don’t help in writing
content. Most of the students doing tourism and hospitality stop and learn
about tourist attractions but they don’t get a chance to visit them.
“You study about Bwindi, but you don’t know
the animals found there,” she adds.
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