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Maxensia Nakibuuka is a development worker with a bias to women-led and women oriented projects, social justice for women, and community health for women and children in the area of HIV/AIDS, Women’s economic empowerment as an avenue for women’s emancipation and increasing women’s participation in politics as a way of profiling them in decision making positions among others. A role model with a fragmented and touching background having lived with HIV for the last 20 years, her personal experience on the effects of HIV/AIDS instigated her to start an initiative, Lungujja Community Health Caring Organisation (LUCOHECO), to fight for the plight of all women in similar situation. She is a political and feminist leader and Alumna of the African Women’s Leadership Institute held Akina Mama wa Afrika. She is a member of the Huairou Commission a women-led social movement of grassroots women’s groups from poor urban, rural, and indigenous communities, working in over 45 countries. It is an international network that builds the capacity of grassroots women’s organizations to wield collective influence for sustainable, gender equitable and pro-poor development, including at international levels a movement-based organization, with the mission of developing strategic partnerships and linkages among grassroots women’s organisations around the world. member of the Huairou Commission, a women-led social movement of grassroots women’s groups from poor urban, rural, and indigenous communities, working in over 45 countries. It is an international network that builds the capacity of grassroots women’s organizations to wield collective influence for sustainable, gender equitable and pro-poor development, including at international levels. Maxensia is a qualified accountant, a professional secretary and social worker who has ventured and walked into vulnerable people’s lives and changed them for the better using her skills and abilities amidst the economic and political challenges of the day for an underdeveloped country like Uganda.