Global Queen: Uganda

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Emma Naluyima is a farmer, veterinarian, teacher and mother. The 43-year-old is a doer! Among other things, on her farm in eastern Uganda, she shows women from surrounding villages how successful agriculture can work.

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 [LAUGHTER]

00:06 My name is Nalima Emma.

00:07 I'm a vet by profession.

00:09 I'm a mother, a wife, a farmer, and an educator.

00:14 I'm 43 years old.

00:16 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:19 Oh, we are in Bwerenga village, Wakiso District,

00:23 in Uganda, in East Africa.

00:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:27 I started farming just to put food on my table.

00:29 But what I did, I did it so well that I had more

00:33 than I needed to eat.

00:34 Then I started selling.

00:36 So I became successful in that.

00:38 When I'm like, OK, wait a minute.

00:41 What if I pass on this knowledge to my community?

00:45 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:48 Now you notice it's all clean.

00:50 But in other places, if it's not clean, it will be moldy.

00:53 Like now, you see?

00:55 That means the people who washed the trays--

00:57 It's not--

00:58 [YELLING]

01:00 --you planted.

01:01 No, no, ours.

01:02 [YELLING]

01:04 So we opened it to many people.

01:05 And I'm happy that I've been able to train

01:09 as many people as possible-- youth, women, children.

01:13 We've opened a school, MSC Junior School.

01:15 And the stories, it's so satisfying.

01:17 It's very satisfying when someone calls you saying,

01:21 I came to your farm.

01:22 You taught me this.

01:23 Now I have this.

01:24 But many people call back saying they

01:27 have food on their table.

01:28 And I'm proud of that.

01:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:39 I love animals.

01:40 So I treat animals.

01:42 I listen to them.

01:44 I care for them.

01:46 Being a farmer is a noble job.

01:49 Because if, as a farmer, I don't keep my animals,

01:54 I don't keep the cows and get milk out of them,

01:57 I don't dig, I don't get vegetables and everything,

02:00 then you people won't be able to eat.

02:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:10 No, actually, I'm not a teacher.

02:11 I'm not a teacher.

02:13 But in school, actually, in this school,

02:16 we do a lot of practicals.

02:17 So MSC Junior School is called Math, Science, and Technology.

02:23 Our vision is to make sure that every child taps each child's

02:27 potential through farming.

02:29 It's a normal school with a bias to agriculture.

02:31 So we use agriculture to teach.

02:33 Some few plants have twin systems,

02:36 like that plant over there.

02:37 Ah.

02:39 So we are not training them to become farmers.

02:43 But we're giving them skills.

02:45 Because farming makes you patient.

02:47 There's so much-- like a farmer, being a farmer is something

02:50 that, I don't know, there are so many skills there.

02:53 There's so many virtues there--

02:56 team building, responsibility.

02:59 They have this plant they're going to look after.

03:01 They have this chick they're looking after till the end.

03:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:08 I see what we've gone through with the children,

03:11 the way we nurture them.

03:14 They're confident.

03:15 They touch.

03:16 They feel.

03:17 They understand.

03:18 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:21 [INAUDIBLE]

03:25 If I had the powers, I'd make sure every school

03:30 is like my school.

03:30 [LAUGHS]

03:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:37 I've achieved so many accolades and awards as a farmer--

03:43 things I'd never thought.

03:44 I was best farmer 2014.

03:46 When I gave birth to my last born, she's now four.

03:49 So I'd just come out of hospital.

03:51 Three days out of hospital, I receive a phone call

03:54 from President Obasanjo saying, wow, you

03:58 won the Africa Food Prize 2019.

04:00 And I'm like, oh.

04:02 So and this is something-- you know, it's not a competition.

04:04 You don't know they are watching you.

04:05 And you know, so it was something nice.

04:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]

04:12 [LAUGHTER]

04:16 [MUSIC PLAYING]

04:20 I believe in myself.

04:21 And I have this thing that--

04:25 sorry for men.

04:26 But what a man can do, a woman can do three times better.

04:30 [LAUGHS]

04:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]

04:36 (upbeat music)

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