Young activist Nakajjigo laid to rest

The Women and Girls ambassador, Esther Nakajjigo has today been laid to rest at Munyonyo, Salaama road after instantly dying in an accident.

While travelling in her car, the 23-year-old was hit by a metallic gate at the Arches National Park.

Nakajjigo has been the face of Saving Innocence Challenge, a reality TV show addressing concerns about teenage pregnancy.

She was European Commission Young Leader and the United States Department of State Young African Leader, a member of the Women Ambassadors' Forum in Dallas, Texas, and a Youth Expert at the African Union-European Union Youth Cooperation Hub in Addis Ababa as well as a Commonwealth Youth Trainer.

She achieved a total of nine Awards, a Geneva Women's World Summit Prize and she is the 2018 Luff Peace Fellowship winner at Watson Institute in the U.S.

Nakajjigo has been working at the Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a non-employee associate in the international programs.

She had been among the many people of colour who have come to strongly condemn the systematic racism in the US.

Her send-off has been graced by Prof. Badru Katerega the vice chancellor of Kampala University, AIGP Grace Akullo the director of CID and a representative of European Union Thomas Tiedemann among other delegates, friends and well-wishers.

Photos and video by Francis Emorut