Malaria Partners Uganda Welcomes New Board Member Hon. Apolot Christine
Honorable Apolot Christine has joined Malaria Partners Uganda as a Board Member representing the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Malaria(UPFM). She had her formal induction at the recently concluded Board Retreat in Soroti.
Hon. Apolot was a secondary school teacher, then she joined politics in 2016 under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party as the Local Council 5 Chairperson (LC5) in Kumi District. She became not only the first woman to occupy the seat in Teso sub-region, but one of the three women nationally, to become LC5 Chairpersons in Uganda. Currently, she is the Women’s Representative Member of Parliament for Kumi District in Uganda’s 11th Parliament.
“I come from a Malaria prone Constituency. I am therefore delighted at the opportunity to change the Status quo through MPU” Hon. Apolot Christine.
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