15-06 2020 15:33
wrote:
The family of Dr. Tikhala, The WIN family, the media fraternity, and the congregation that joins together today to celebrate Dr. Tikhala’s life.
As Women in the News in Uganda, we mourn with Dr. T’s family, the Media fraternity in Africa, and the people whom Dr. T touched.
In a special way, I thank his family for allowing him to share his life with us. Dr. T had a larger family than you can ever imagine, and a heart of gold.
And I know as soon as the Lord called you back to Himself, celebrations began in heaven because even the angels could not resist the sweet personality you were.
I thank God for the life He gave you of which you shared with us all.
Personally when I first received an email from you congratulating me for have been selected to be the WIN- Uganda mentor, I addressed you as a Doctor and sometimes as SIR.
However; the two titles ceased to be in my vocabulary when I met you in Naivasha, Nairobi during the Women in the Media Boot camp.
From our interaction, as you took me through what was expected of me as a mentor, my inner being told me that I was giving you wrong tittles and my psychology said, “he is not a doctor and not a sir to you Hope but “a Paapa and a REAL FATHER”.
From then on, I called you Paapa because that’s what exactly you were to me and I believe to other WINNers.
Paapa you came into my life at a critical time when I was considering leaving the News Room due to multiple challenges in the sector, but your words of wisdom and encouragement helped me to refocus my mind on the media that you wholeheartedly believed in.
Your patience, tolerance, calmness, sense of humor, and the largest listening ears I have ever had, made me stay in the professional.
Paapa I want to tell you that even if I am to leave the News Room in the future, and God gives me the grace, I am 100 percent sure that I would remember the counsel you gave me, before making a personal decision to quite the media.
2nd Timothy 4: 7: says “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and kept the faith”.
You indeed fought a perfect fight for women in the media and the media at large, you kept your faith in us that you have mentored, counselled, trained and nurtured, you kept the fire burning within us even when things did not make sense to some of us anymore.
And you have finished your race gracefully. To us whom you have touched and nurtured will continue this race to the heights you dreamed about.
I and the Win programme across Africa will forever miss you. Sleep Well Paapa.
15-06 2020 15:33
wrote:
The family of Dr. Tikhala, The WIN family, the media fraternity, and the congregation that joins together today to celebrate Dr. Tikhala’s life.
As Women in the News in Uganda, we mourn with Dr. T’s family, the Media fraternity in Africa, and the people whom Dr. T touched.
In a special way, I thank his family for allowing him to share his life with us. Dr. T had a larger family than you can ever imagine, and a heart of gold.
And I know as soon as the Lord called you back to Himself, celebrations began in heaven because even the angels could not resist the sweet personality you were.
I thank God for the life He gave you of which you shared with us all.
Personally when I first received an email from you congratulating me for have been selected to be the WIN- Uganda mentor, I addressed you as a Doctor and sometimes as SIR.
However; the two titles ceased to be in my vocabulary when I met you in Naivasha, Nairobi during the Women in the Media Boot camp.
From our interaction, as you took me through what was expected of me as a mentor, my inner being told me that I was giving you wrong tittles and my psychology said, “he is not a doctor and not a sir to you Hope but “a Paapa and a REAL FATHER”.
From then on, I called you Paapa because that’s what exactly you were to me and I believe to other WINNers.
Paapa you came into my life at a critical time when I was considering leaving the News Room due to multiple challenges in the sector, but your words of wisdom and encouragement helped me to refocus my mind on the media that you wholeheartedly believed in.
Your patience, tolerance, calmness, sense of humor, and the largest listening ears I have ever had, made me stay in the professional.
Paapa I want to tell you that even if I am to leave the News Room in the future, and God gives me the grace, I am 100 percent sure that I would remember the counsel you gave me, before making a personal decision to quite the media.
2nd Timothy 4: 7: says “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and kept the faith”.
You indeed fought a perfect fight for women in the media and the media at large, you kept your faith in us that you have mentored, counselled, trained and nurtured, you kept the fire burning within us even when things did not make sense to some of us anymore.
And you have finished your race gracefully. To us whom you have touched and nurtured will continue this race to the heights you dreamed about.
I and the Win programme across Africa will forever miss you. Sleep Well Paapa.
