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Home / Awards / Servitor Pacis Award / 2003 THE SERVITOR PACIS AWARD RECIPIENTS 2003 - Rose Busingye Rose Busingye is a Ugandan by nationality. She was born in Kampala on December 31, 1968. She completed her primary school in Kampala and then attended Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School in the Gulu District of northern Uganda. In 1986, when civil war broke out in Uganda, Rose Busingye found herself in the Kitgum District when communication between the North of Uganda and Kampala was interrupted. She remained in the Kitgum District for six months. During that time, she witnessed first-hand the ravaging and deadly effects of the war, men, women and children suffering and wounded with no one to help them. Although she desperately desired to assist these people, she was frustrated and sorrowful at her inability to do so because of her lack of medical training. When she returned to Kampala she decided to go to Nsambya Hospital to attend Nursing School, hoping to be able to give immediate assistance to sick and suffering people. While in school, she studied General Nursing and Midwifery, and after completing her studies she became a Nursing Officer. She was then offered a scholarship to study an additional two years in Italy, specializing in infectious diseases, in the regional hospital of Varese (July 1990 to September 1992). In 1992 Rose Busingye returned to Uganda and began volunteer work with patients suffering with HIV/AIDS in Kampala. Meanwhile, she trained to become a certified health counselor in order to further assist patients with HIV/AIDS, as well as orphans, depressed and terminally ill patients. Later that same year, she, together with several other concerned friends, founded Meeting Point Kampala, a special assistance organization which offers health care counseling and medical care for those suffering from infectious diseases. In 1996 she again traveled to Italy (Milan) where she attended a training course on caring for and assisting mentally disabled people. In 2002 she founded a new organization called Meeting Point International, now a nationally recognized organization by the Uganda Government. This organization serves the sick and suffering in other slum areas of Kampala, such as Naguru, Bwoyogerere, Nsambya and the Kireka-Acholi Quarter. Through this organization, Ms. Busingye and her colleagues actively care for those living with HIV/AIDS and, later, their orphans, as well as youth, families and countless people suffering from disease and the other devastating effects of poverty and war. In recognition of her indefatigable and valiant efforts at restoring the dignity of each and every person she encounters who is sick and suffering, and in celebration of her triumphs in advancing the fight against HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, and thereby her significant contribution to the cause of peace, the Path to Peace Foundation is pleased to bestow upon Rose Busingye the title Servitor Pacis "Servant of Peace."
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