Dorothy Birungi Namuyiga and her three siblings were raised by their mother, a second-hand clothing vendor in Uganda. She excelled in secondary school and obtained a government scholarship to study Agribusiness Management at Makerere University. “I made sure I did well at every stage because my mother worked hard to send us to school,” she says. “I was the best student in the science class in high school and with a first class honors, which all called for a celebration at home.