BADRU KATUMBA
20-year-old Silas Lobangakene and 22-year-old Robinah Babirye are this year’s Uganda Mr and Miss Y+ beauty peagant which took place at Golf Course hotel in the night of Friday 19th 2015 organised by the Uganda Network of Young people living with HIV/AID in collaboration with SRHR Alliance, HIV Bible Movement, Marie stopes, USAID among others.
The two and other 14 contestants went through a series of tough questioning from the three judges of the day that included the former Miss Uganda Phiona Bizzu, Zaitun Nabatelega of straight talk Uganda and Diana Amanyire who fired the contestants with questions to test their reasoning, intelligence and checking their knowledge on HIV and AIDS.
Among other things on the day was the contestants showcasing different clothes, modeling, and skills in dancing, poetry and singing.
At around 11:54, the two winners were announced by the MC and Ugandan Comedian Pablo, and crowned by the Jacqueline Alesi the executive director of UNYPA.
The winners walked away with scholarships for a year in their various fields and universities and they are going to be the role models and ambassaders of UNYPA to help in educating, mentoring and fighting stigma, discrimination against young people affected and living with HIV/ AIDS.
This makes Uganda the second African country to organise a beauty pageant for HIV+positive people after Botswana.
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