Job Lazarus Okello is an outstanding, influential and distinguished multi-gifted and talented Ugandan Diplomat, Pan-Africanist, author, speaker, scholar, researcher, mechanical engineer, industrial engineer, manufacturing engineer and entrepreneur, born in Gulu, Uganda, on 15.02.1993. He is the co-founder of Unlimited Inspiration International, an organization with a vision of transforming lives globally by inspiring, motivating, and empowering humanity. Job is also the principal guest on the Continental Pan-African Show “Let’s Build Africa” of Priana TV of Ghana where topical discussions are held to diagnose African problems and then propose practical and realistic solutions to the problems while clearly specifying everyone’s role.
Currently, Job is a research student at the prestigious Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), New Borg El-Arab City, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt. His research is focused on making microchips, and microfluidics devices from polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and using CO2 laser micromachining.
Job holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Makerere University, a Diploma in Bible Study from Amazing Facts Bible School, a Certificate in Scratch Coding Language from Makerere University, a Certificate in Developing Talents and Leadership from Total Professeurs Associes, and Total E&P Uganda, a Certificate in Investment Decision Process and Petroleum & Energy Economics from Total Professeurs Associes and Total E&P Uganda, and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship Development from Makerere University Business School (MUBS) and Uganda Investment Authority. With his unwavering passion and quest for world transformation, Job has travelled extensively around the world, speaking at conferences, seminars, and other events.
The northern part of Uganda was embroiled in a war which lasted for over twenty years which led to massive loss of lives, destruction of properties and erosion of cultural values. Even though the war ended over ten years ago, its effects are still lingering and destroying lives to the extent that even those who are born after the end of the war are still living as if they also took part in the war. Many people are still suffering from psychological torture and mental abnormalities which are affecting their lives physically, socially, economically, academically, politically and health-wise to the point where many people are not educating their children because, they claim, they were in the war. Many of them attribute all their problems to the war. Consequently, they aren’t working hard to improve their lives but priding themselves on the war as not only their consolation but also cover up for not doing the needful to better their lives. They are therefore allowing the war, which ended over ten years ago, to dictate how they and their children should live their lives. Yet if they could look beyond the war, then they could do things differently and their lives would greatly improve. Northern Uganda is blessed with fertile land which favors agriculture. Unfortunately, most of the land is not cultivated because the people are blaming their poverty and unfavorable conditions on the war. Most of the people are currently selling their land and again wasting the money away through alcoholism, smoking and early marriages among others. A lot therefore has to be done to avert the existing status quo.
It’s on this ground that in 2009, I started an inspirational project so that through it, we could transform the lives of people in the post war northern Uganda and even beyond. The war is over but through the project, we have launched another war that is fighting the effects of the war. I strongly believe that if we work on the mindset of the people, then we can be able to change their lives. I am acutely aware that no transformation can take place in the life of a person unless their mind is transformed, because transformation begins in the mind. The project started on a very small scale but it is now expanding even though it has never been funded by anyone. From the testimonies we have registered as our success stories over the years, I can confidently say that the project has the potential of transforming the entire northern Uganda completely from the devastating effects of the war. It can usher in a new northern Uganda, one whose people don’t pride on the war but work extremely hard to have productive and prosperous livelihoods. Because of the project, many people are now taking their children to schools and the academic performances have improved as the schools which we have visited and addressed their learners and teachers have reported improvement in discipline, punctuality, lifestyles and consequently performances; many people are now conscious of their health, many are farming their land, many have stopped selling their land, drinking alcohol and smoking; many people have abandoned idleness and embraced hard work and the livelihoods have generally improved.
Because of the results we have registered, we are now being invited to speak at conferences, in schools, outside northern Uganda and even the East African region. For example, in May 2018, I was invited to Kibeho, southern Rwanda, to speak to the victims of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. I am proud to say the results were amazing, and I have been invited to go back there in May, 2020. In July 2018, I was invited to speak at the Kenya Youth Camp organized by International Youth Fellowship (IYF) where I had the privilege of sharing the stage with the wife to the deputy president of Kenya Ms. Rachel Ruto, the Assistant Commissioner General of Kenya prison, Mr. Ituka Josephat and Rev. Ork Soo Park, founder, International Youth Fellowship who was the Guest Speaker at the event. I have spoken at various conferences and seminars outside Uganda, all of which cannot be mentioned here.
in my quest to transform lives, we have gone to schools and spoken to students to study hard and teachers and parents to make sure students are kept at school.
