Racheal Nalwoga is a Mastercard scholar at Gulu University. She is a change agent, With great passion for community development, agriculture and entrepreneurship and believes that through good leadership and commitment, major community issues like youth unemployment, poverty, gender based violence, HIV/AIDS spread and early marriages can be solved.
She is a good communicator, listener and believes in her potential to express opinions and interests particularly those that concern the well being of youth, women and girls. She engaged in various community programmes in rural areas of Northern Uganda which was faced with 20 years of war and helped create sustainable businesses in agriculture for youth and women groups which has helped create employment and reduce poverty. She wants every youth to be empowered with the right opportunities and given resources to help strength communities and Africa at large through mobilization of resources, ensuring strong youth networks and challenging policy makers on youth issues in the community. She is YALI RLC alumnus and peer trainer at the university under the Gender Mainstreaming program.
Her hobbies include reading books based on real life stories, singing, traveling and making new friends.