by Annabs Sanchez

While working at the Constituent Assembly, Ojiambo saw a job advertisement announcing the relocation of Isis-WICCE  headquarters from Switzerland to Uganda and inviting applicants for the information and communication coordinator job.

“I thought this was the kind of job I wanted,” she says.

Several months later, she received a call. It was Millicent Aligawesa, the Isis-WICCE executive director.

“I had got the job and was expected to start immediately.” It was November 1994.

Ojiambo’s intention to leave her job worried her bosses. “One of them wondered why I was throwing away 14 years of valuable experience in the civil service for an NGO that might close tomorrow,” she says. However, she was determined to leave and she did.