{"id":12933,"date":"2025-12-29T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=12933"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:21:12","slug":"inaugural-mwami-summit-2025-men-called-to-lead-with-responsibility-and-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=12933","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural Mwami Summit 2025: Men Called to Lead with Responsibility and Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Mwami Summit 2025, held on Wednesday, November 19th, at the Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative (ROM) Head Office, gathered men from diverse walks of life for a crucial conversation. Coinciding with International Men\u2019s Day, the summit organized by ROM\u2019s social-economic empowerment arm, Roses of Mbuya Social Enterprise (ROMSE), centred on the urgent theme: <em>\u201cEmpowering Men as Role Models for Stronger Families and Communities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over 100 participants, including community leaders, educators, and advocates from Kampala\u2019s informal settlements, came together to address pressing challenges facing men, such as the stigma surrounding mental health, unemployment, and the harmful societal expectations of masculinity.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Elizabeth Kaleebi, ROM Executive Director, emphasized that when men receive emotional, social, and economic support, &#8220;our communities thrive.&#8221; She passionately called upon attendees to become agents of positive change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMen should be ambassadors of responsibility; role models who inspire and uplift their communities. True leadership begins with men challenging negative masculinity and embracing values that strengthen families and foster healthier, more supportive societies,\u201d she remarked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/rom-rallies-men-to-lead-with-responsibility-and-compassion-at-first-mwami-summit\/\">Read Detailed Story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Mwami Summit 2025, held on Wednesday, November 19th, at the Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative (ROM) Head Office, gathered men from diverse walks of life for a crucial conversation. Coinciding with International Men\u2019s Day, the summit organized by ROM\u2019s social-economic empowerment arm, Roses of Mbuya Social Enterprise (ROMSE), centred on the urgent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-12933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-issues","tag-2025-october-december-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12937,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933\/revisions\/12937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}