Colline Muyodi, Education Programs Manager

Colline first joined AIA in 2017 as a part time program facilitator and then joined the team permanently in 2019. Over the years, his role has progressed from initially working with students through the Primary Partnership Program (PPP) then working with the rest of AIA’s student participants including secondary students during holiday programs. Now, and as a result of the COVID-19, Colline works with primary school teachers in trainings to ensure that they are more skilled and equipped with the knowledge and techniques we believe can bring about the social and economic change in the community through education. Colline hopes that someday, AIA can offer similar trainings and programs engaging not only with the staff of the schools in PPP, but also with the heads of the schools.

While he joined the AIA team back in 2017, Colline originally heard about AIA via a notice on his university campus calling for volunteers in 2015 and reached out to Sarah then. While he wasn’t able to volunteer with us at that time, Colline did reach out to Sarah again in 2017 when he and a group of colleagues proposed programs mingling classroom studies with theater arts (music, dance and drama) to schools in the Kampala area. While the schools weren’t interested in the programming Colline and his colleagues proposed, they were able to reach out to several NGOs — AIA included — who were interested and Sarah connected Colline with the Programs Director at The Center to start demonstration classes. From there, we are lucky to have Colline and his ideas with us still!

Colline attended Mwiri Primary School then Seeta High School and earned his Bachelors of Arts in Drama and Film from Makerere University. Prior to starting university and joining AIA, he helped his parents with their work in construction and at their stall in the Jinja Central Market respectively. Colline is driven by the idea that people are able to grow and create greater impact in their lives and communities through the ability to develop skills in creativity and independent thinking as well as through autonomy in their decision making. These ideas therefore push Colline to work smarter and better each day knowing that he can add to at least one person's growth psychologically, emotionally, socially, or even economically. Outside of work, Colline enjoys watching and talking about movies.