On its website, Young Achievers Award is described as an initiative designed to create a platform for harnessing talent, showcasing excellence and innovation among Ugandans citizens aged between 18-35 years,and equally inspire others to get involved and pursue their dreams.
Categories include:
1. Young Achiever -Vocational Skills Construction
This category recognizes Young people who stand out using skills and other resources to offer services needed in housing and construction industry and support services or products in the industry. For example Construction manufacturers, Masons, Roofers, Plumbers, Carpenters, Electricians, Painters, Fabricators, Machine attendants
2. Young Achiever - Vocational Skills Hospitality
This category recognizes Young people who are engaged in the hospitality industry as way of creating opportunities for themselves and others. Those who are involved in tourism and travel business and are promoting the natural beauty of the country. The category also recognizes those who sustain the tourism business in tours and travel, hotel and restaurant business etc
3. Young Achiever -Vocational Skill Agriculture
This category gives recognition to outstanding youth engaged in the innovative farming practices for example farmers, agricultural scientists, and agro-entrepreneurs with excellent ideas that have developed long term benefits to the sector. E.g. Poultry, Bee keeping, Horticulture, Dairy, Fishing, Butchers, Livestock, etc
4. Young Achiever -Business and Trade
This category recognizes achievers in the business sector. Those involved in merchandise, trading, procurement or retail business. E.g. Import, Export, Distribution, Wholesale, Retail, Transportation, wedding planners, decorators, Airtime distributors, Cleaning services, Consultants, Advertising, Security services, Event management, etc
5. Young Achiever -Journalism
This category includes young journalists in print and electronic media who cover the news stories. It is aimed at encouraging, promoting and recognizing excellence in African journalism as well as reinforcing the importance of the journalists’ role in Uganda’s development. E.g. Print, radio, TV, bloggers, reporters and media entrepreneurs.
6. Young Achiever- Social Entrepreneurs
This category recognizes individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social challenges. This category includes for profit and not for profit ventures, youth leaders/Activists in the social and political realm. These individuals use entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture or campaign to cause positive social changes. They work through non-profits and citizen groups. They include NGO’S, Social businesses, social professionals etc.
7. Young Achiever -Corporate and Professionals
This selection of young achievers includes independent contractors, consultants or even those within corporate organizations whose work is remarkable within those structures. They provide professional services based on skill, excellence, knowledge, reputation, ethics, and creativity. E.g. accountants, actuaries, appraisers, archaeologists, architects, attorneys, brokerage firms, business consultants, business development managers, copywriters, engineers, law firms, physicians, public relations professionals, recruiters, researchers, real estate brokers, translators.
8. Young Achiever -Art, Fashion and Design
This category celebrates outstanding achievement that reflects the powerful convergence of art, fashion and design. It is set to showcase the very best work and provide an unrivalled source of creative inspiration and art works. E.g. Beauticians, Handicrafts , sculptors, Art and design, Fashion, Poets, Writers, Drawing/Graphic Arts, Photography, Graffiti artists.etc
9. Young Achiever -Music and Entertainment
This category recognizes Young achievers who have excelled in Music and entertainment industry in recognition for their creativity and talent in the areas of music, film, theatre, dance and Djs. This category creates and provides a suitable promotional platform for young Ugandan musicians and entertainers. E.g. Musicians, Comedians, Drama, Dancers.
10. Young Achiever –Sports
This category recognizes the achievements of those teams and individuals who symbolize the very best in sports. This also caters for those individuals who have made a significant contribution to the growth and development of sports in Uganda. For example Athletes, Sports and Games players, Sports Entrepreneurs, Sports Administrators and Managers etc.
11. Young Achiever- I.C.T Solutions
This category recognizes information communication technology innovations that serve the needs of our community. ICT Achievers provide a full range of technology solutions from private PC sales right through to development of corporate and education software solutions and communications networks. These individuals and businesses, have a wealth of knowledge and experience with software, hardware, networking, server technologies and security.
12. Young Achiever of the Year
Chosen from all the nominees, the Young Achiever of the Year possess the appreciation of innovative business process, business excellence and overall leadership success and are selected on the qualities of mentorship, inspiration, demonstrate the ability to cross national boundaries to discover new ideas at the intersection of cultures and disciplines and provides an opportunity to learn each other’s entrepreneurial policies, abilities and practices.
Special Awards
13. “Young Achiever’s Heroes/Heroines Award”
This category caters for the young individuals, who have made tremendous self sacrifice for the good of others.
14. “A Lifetime Achievement Award”
For the outstanding senior citizen who has greatly achieved and inspired the young generation to desire for change and a better life, work for it and appreciate the consequences for the processes involved. It also recognizes those that have made great sacrifice and service towards Nation building.
The full list of names of people nominated is yet to come out.
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