Video and Uganda, Part 2

This is a continuation of our interview with Kamoga Hassan of Visual Power.

Name: Kamoga Hassan
Age: 23 years
Name of work: Visual Power

3) What does a typical day look like for you?

A typical day for me: I go around each day looking for subjects or media that  I can use my skills on filming current events. I take still shots of people, children; I ask how they feel about certain events or things that interest them; I involve the children as I go about my day, teaching them my skills if they want to know, I stop and show them what I am doing.  I love to teach them.  I stay very busy each day because so much needs to be done.  I travel and move around in and outside my city looking for anything that will be of interest for my people and myself.  I also learn from others as I do my work each day. Each day is a new day and a new beginning.

4) How do you feel about your work?

I feel that my work is to always help and benefit my community, the people, the country and that what I do is most important to teach others, what matters is that you can be poor or rich, you can still help to promote and instill into others the importance of love for your work and helping others to be educated and trained, that there is no better reward on earth than knowing you helped to educate and give love back to the community.  This creates the thought in people’s minds: it can be done, you can succeed.  I love my work field and I have learnt so much in the past years how camera and film can help others.  I cannot imagine doing anything else.

5) What do you wish people knew about your organization?
I want people to know the problems facing the underprivileged children and how they can help them by educating them/or teaching life time skills so that they can be self reliant and take charge of their nation. I also want other people in the society to see how lucky they are to be in those rich families and learn how to give back to the poor.  For example why should one person have food in the bin when there is a hungry child next door.

6) What do you wish people knew about you?
I want people to know that I am able and ready to help and share my skills in any society.  I am passionate about my work.  Its the life i have chosen for my future.  All that I have done was to educate myself and want others to know that I am a honest, caring person who fears God.  That’s what I have in my heart.  I want others to know that I care deeply and to show through my project its better to give than to receive.  I pray always that my work is of help to others in so many ways.