Tout Media

I am very thrilled that I will be attending the biggest Social Media Event in Uganda, The Social Media Day Kampala come 27 June 2015. However not with the usual focus of taking selfies and hot shots but rather passing on my ideas on how social media can be used to raise awareness and connecting societies. I feel society needs to embrace and appreciate social media as a tool that can facilitate the spread of awareness about the social challenges that are connected to the social order. For many years, several of us have used social media to bring our friends and family closer and made a few new friends and acquaintances through those that we relate with on Social Media. Now that social media is widely used by many private and government organizations to reach out to communities, it’s high time we focused our   attention to the many challenges that affect individuals in society like diseases, poor health systems, poor sanitation and Hygiene to mention but a few. June has b

  Our spirit and love grow when we spur ourselves to care and be apprehensive about issues that may or may not directly affect us in society. I am a social media enthusiast apart from my blogging passion, I now have the courage to let you know that I have fallen in love with the practice of using Social media to spread awareness about Serious but usually ignored challenges that distress society. June 19, 2015 is one of those days that will for long count in my life having spent more than three hours with the people who are directly or indirectly touched by the Sickle Cell disease. Having heard about the Uganda American Sickle Cell Rescue Fund (UASCRF) Conference at Hotel Africana, I promised myself to make it to the venue and learn more about this serious but ignored disease. At around 12 O’clock I reached the venue, went through some through but deserved security checks and made my way to the conference hall where the Conference was housed.  Like the usual case, I