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Leadership Advancement International (LAI)
Logic20/20 is proud to support the education of Eunice Naswali, an electrical engineering graduate student at Oregon State University (OSU).
Eunice is from the east African state of Uganda, and is studying in the United States to become a future leader in her country. She is inspired by her grandfather, who studied in England and founded Uganda’s first neurological unit in the capital city of Kampala. Through the reign of a dictator and extreme hardship, he declined offers to practice in other countries, and instead concentrated his effort on serving the Ugandan population.
Why did he stay so long? Eunice provides the answer: "If we all go, then who will stay?"
One challenge she identifies in her country is a growing need for more sophisticated infrastructure, especially for electricity. "Uganda uses hydroelectric power," she says, "but during the dry seasons, there is not enough water to supply the electricity needed to sustain just Kampala, a city of nine million people." The country has more than 30 million people in total, she says; how will their country meet the power needs of a growing population?
Eunice’s passion for mathematics and physics, as well as her desire to build things, has led to studying engineering in the hope of one day contributing to the improvement of Uganda’s infrastructure. Her high test scores and leadership potential qualified her to receive Logic20/20’s sponsorship of her American college education.
She graduated in June 2009 with bachelors’ degrees in electrical engineering and French. She began graduate work that fall at OSU studying analog signal processes. Analog systems are used in a variety of technological applications, including telecommunications.
After graduation, her goal is to gain work experience in the United States before returning to Uganda. She does not know exactly what industry she would like to work in, but she does know that she wants to make an impact. She cites the need for "authentic, accountable, and courageous" leaders in her country, and wants to become a role model for young women to encourage them to pursue the sciences.
Eunice came to the United States through Leadership Advancement International (LAI), a Seattle-based non-profit organization whose mission is to develop a community of well-trained, well-connected, world-class servant leaders in developing countries who will act as catalysts for community and national development. The organization strives to equip the future leaders with educational and leadership opportunities in the United States so they can promote education, economic development, social policy, and democratic governments in their home countries. Logic20/20 is proud to support the work of LAI, and is proud to support the education of future leaders in Africa, like Eunice.
To find out more about LAI, visit their website