Footprints Podcast | Season 1 | Episode 14 | Retirement? Not in Her Vocabulary

Footprints Podcast Series · Mar 7, 2025 · 38m

In this episode of the Footprints podcast, Canon Jolly Babirukamu shares her remarkable seventy-four-year journey of service and mentorship. From her early years to teaching, retirement, and business, her story is one of resilience, leadership, and faith.

Born in Kabale, she moved to Rukungiri at eight, which she now considers home. She attended Nyakaina Primary School before joining Trinity College Nabbingo in 1965, where she served as a timekeeper, her first leadership role.

She later taught Home Economics at Gayaza High School and Kyebambe Girls' Secondary School, shaping young minds while…