To some people, scoring good grades at high school is synonymous to excelling at university but Moses Okumu, the best male student at this year’s last part of 11th graduation, beats this notion. Okumu scored a GPA of 4.74 to top his male counterparts.

Apart from the first grade he scored in PLE at Iganga Boys Primary, he was later to get a third grade and 7 points in O and A levels at Kiira College Butiki and Ntinda View College respectively.
The 24 year old was born to Samuel Natandula and Agnes Auma of Busia in eastern Uganda. Currently Okumu is abroad in the States for one year internship training with Urban Promise International, a US NGO on development and leadership.
Answering questions through an online interview, he did not hesitate to express his joy over his academic achievement. “It’s a joy!” he said, adding that even if his name is going to read at the graduation ceremony in his absensure, he doesn’t mind after all he has acquired a good paper and he can get it any time he wants it.
But for Okumu, reaching these heights, there has been a combination of factors, his parents who pressed him hard to study, his sponsors Mr. & Mrs. Dave Cheryl Blankmeyers who paid his tuition and provided all that he needed. 
He thanks Honors College which he describes as a community of learning that brought him closer to people who helped shape his personality and his former lecturer and head of Child Development program Mr. Fredrick Mukhwana whom he describes as “a mentor with broad knowledge in children ministry and human race.
Okumu’s philosophy of life is very clear, doing something while there is still an opportunity. “I believe that I am only one, I can do something but not every thing” he answered in one of the online questions.
Okumu wants to dedicate his entire life to investing in lives of people especially children through a continuous service
“My plans are to see children
flourish in a just environment, where they will be heard and their opinions respected” says Okumu.
To this Okumu has already established an organisation called African Christian Children’s Libraries with the aim of planting libraries in marginalised schools in Uganda.