Rosebell Kagumire
3 December 2004
Kampala — The proprietor of Uganda Funeral Services, Ms Regina Mukiibi, has been voted woman entrepreneur of the year, by an organization of fellow businesswomen.
Mukiibi got the award from the Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Limited (UWEAL), during its annual dinner at Garden City on Saturday.
Mukiibi said she was "delighted" that her efforts had been recognized. Uganda Funeral Services started in 1997, the first company organizing funerals for a fee.
Today it organises postmortems, dresses bodies, provides caskets and funeral home services, transports bodies, builds graves, provides video coverage of funerals, and others. Beginning next year it will add counseling for mourners to its list of services.
Hajat Sarah Lubega, proprietor and managing director of Leila's Company, was recognized as a "senior" businesswoman. Lubega also sits on the board of the microfinance institution, Pride Uganda, and is a coordinator of the Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/Aids.
In the "medium" was Ms Annette Nansikombi, owner of the juice processing company E-zay, which makes the Easy Juice brand and flavored mineral water. The "junior" award went to Ann Aling, who owns two crafts shops in Buganda Road craft village.
Justice Julie Sebutinde, who was chief guest, handed the awards to the winners. UWEAL's chairperson, Ms Sarah Kitakule said the organisation plans to set up a Shs 700m resource center at Lugogo next year, to serve as a library for books, video and audio, and host exhibitions.
Kitakule added that this would make it easy to mentor girls in business.
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