Q+A: Centenary Foundation’s Annabel Ogwang-Okot on values-based performance and the Centenary Group’s big agenda on addressing poverty and transforming lives Annabel Ogwang-Okot joined the Centenary Foundation in August 2022, from Diakonia, where she was a Country Director for Uganda. Diakonia is an out-of-Sweden Global Christian international charity and development organisation. To mark her 1st Anniversary, she sat down with CEO East Africa’s Muhereza Kyamutetera to talk about the Centenary Foundation’s purpose and recalibrated strategy to work through Centenary Foundation’s Centenary Group subsidiaries and the Catholic Church to make a big impact on especially women and youth through big-push programmes in health, education, environment and community economic empowerment and the church social mission.

Muhereza KyamuteteraNovember 1, 2023November 1, 2023

Annabel Ogwang-Okot, the Centenary Foundation, Chief Executive Officer

First, tell us about the Centenary Foundation. What is it about and what does it stand for? The Centenary Foundation is one of the subsidiaries of the Centenary Group. It is the social development and sustainability arm of the Centenary Group. The Foundation is also the special purpose vehicle through which the Group ensures that social economic impact in the communities is realised, to complement the value-based business results. Centenary Foundation’s vision is a ‘safe and sustainable world where all citizens live a healthy, fulfilled life of self-reliance in dignity’. To achieve this ambition, the Foundation empowers men, women,…

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