” Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray”
– Rumi.
Friday Martin aka Bwana Marshal is an accountant by profession and a farmer by default. Passionately he is a digital enthusiast, social media influencer and a philanthropist. This is not the most interesting part about Martin though. Martin is not just a digital enthusiast but an icon in creating digital solutions for communities.
Conventionally a community is a gathering of people (most times sharing same language, values and beliefs), but in this digital era it is so easy to bring unlike-minded people from diverse corners of the world to have a platform that liken their minds and cause. Digital communities enable humanity from diverse locations to have a chance to improve their access to information, enhance their personal and professional growth and also help in creating networks of impact from wherever they are.
Digital communities share a diversity of industry/society social, political and economic opinions, ideas, and knowledge that one would have never encountered in the analogue communities. We cannot talk about all this without having Martin as the feature face of such trends that are transforming the way we live in rural Uganda especially western Uganda.
From that passion for community transformation and digitization, Martin found Digital Villages Africa; a non-profit that seeks to bridge the digital divide between the rural and urban communities in Africa through a wide range of social and economic interventions while strategically positioning technology trends, awareness and access as a basic need for rural communities.
Martin is a proud father of two boys and husband to one wife 😉 and a Rotaractor who exhibits radically inspired zeal in founding and taking lead in social and community service activism for transforming rural communities in Uganda. He’s the chief architect in the founding of Rotaract club of Kihihi, Marshal media hub; a community news broadcast social media platform, and Kanungu Cyber family; by far the largest (in numbers and impact) community Facebook group in the Western Uganda region.
Martin’s resume sounds so huge than his actual size and humility and precisely i would say his life is premised on touching lives of the less privileged while enabling them to realize their full potential through awareness, access and involvement in humanity liberation trends especially technology and digitization.
Part of the books he says have transformed his life is A SCHOOL FOR MY VILLAGE‘ by ‘TWESIGYE JACKSON KAGURI’
When we talk of community shakers, movers and shapers, such people like Martin always keep etched on our hearts and always deserve recognition and celebration. We are proud of Martin and we pray the good lord keeps his fields flowing with abundance and prosperity.
