Justine Nabanjala Mukiibi, is an Oganisational Development practitioner and a Trainer, who is an ardent continuous learner and passionate about helping individuals rediscover their relevance in life.
Justine believes that for sustainable development to take root and have impactful results in today’s fast-paced world, each actor has to acknowledge their individual part and contribution in the larger space; and this can only be realised when one’s life purpose is identified, appreciated and accomplished.
Combining her professional training in culture and productivity with spiritual furnishing through living life as a single mother for more than 20 years, Justine focuses on walking with mothers on creating a balance between their parenting and ethical career roles. And evidenced from personal experiences and insightful revelations, this balance can only be attained with self-recovery from intentional spiritual embrace.
As a founding partner of MONA-WOH Foundation, her goal is to help empower the marginalised women with spiritual insights so as to have a firm sense of self-appreciation by aligning their respective calling with Divine purpose. Her mission is to support single mothers illuminate their identity using their God-given feminine power and authenticity to live a whole and satisfactory life.
In over 20 years of working with individuals and organisations to maximise productivity, Justine has refined her work in the development arena to focus on the spiritual aspect that engenders an individual’s value addition through highlighting their relevance to living. She is specially confident of the life-long desired and sustainable results with divine revelations and her personal experiences.
Justine earned her Master’s in Management studies, a Postgraduate in Organisational Development from Uganda Management Institute; and her Bachelor’s in Social Administration from Makerere University. She is a member of the International Organisational Development Association (IODA), a non-profit global network of OD professionals that initiate and support development processes.
Summing all the above, Justine has a personal, very intentional and mature relationship with Jesus Christ, something she believes is both a foundation for and an icing on her life. It is been a fundamental initiative, support and sustenance of this credible journey shared.
A personal message from Justine
We are all created in God’s image; each endowed with unique abilities and co-creative powers; we therefore have a divine mandate to build the kind of world we want to have, not only for us but for the future generations that will come after us!!
Genesis 2:7 states how the spirit of God was breathed into man to give him life. This is a scriptural basis to confirm that man is a spiritual being living in a physical body. Clearly, man’s existence is not as abstract and empty as the world would want us to think. No, according to God’s creation plan, there is something that man has to do and accomplish; and that is Purpose, which not only gives meaning to those that benefit but also relevance to him the doer of purpose.
Genesis 25:22-23 then brings in an individual’s bigger picture for his life and living purposefully in general. Whereas Rebecca thought that she was carrying mere twins, God corrected her that they were instead nations in her womb! And that though were nurtured in this one mother’s womb, they were already different individuals and upon birth, they were going to live totally different lives. This is the beginning of a mother’s job description, which is entirely dependent on what God says each nation shall grow into becoming.
Mothers, it is high time we woke up to God’s truths that we are mandated to raise nations out of these children that He gifts us; and, indeed we are stewardesses partnering with him to raise them according to His blueprint only accessed when we listen and obey to what He tells us how to do it.
Did our mothers know these truths? Maybe or maybe not! One may even dig deeper and ask whether the parents to our parents had the opportunity of such truths being revealed to them. Is this typically new knowledge coming up? Of course not at all!
For the best question to be paused would be; to how many of them that this was revealed were bold and courageous enough, let alone to work it out but sharing it with other mothers? But whatever the situation was, there is always a starting point for when redemption is coming to His people.
We are uniquely different
Let us pick the other second part of ‘way of holiness’ that comes in to emphasise God’s plan and will for man’s proper living. For family to be regarded the core fiber of society comes from the fact that it was divinely designed to co-create, nurture and produce individuals that create formidable communities and nations. This was meant to done by a woman, the nurturer; the man as the security and provider in partnership with God as an overall supervisor, for lack of a better word!
But the fact that this is no longer the case on a large scale, spells a misfit and misinformation somewhere along the way, where man and woman seem to have abdicated their positions and automatically left their responsibilities to ‘whoever it concerns’ that is spread all over in the world. This implies that we have technically missed out on something but again gone further to devise our other ‘humanistic’ approaches that can never fix a spiritual problem (Jeremiah 2:13)
Uganda’s recent national population and housing census 2024 preliminary report states a staggering figure of 45% men as absentee fathers with very minimal involvement of their children’s lives and wellbeing.
From a family development point of view, this shows a serious and massive brokenness of different kinds and magnitude to all parties involved; mothers, fathers and children. Whether it is something that is being passed on for generations, someone has got to rise up and highlight this as a vice and commit to put a stop to it. It is thus in Isaiah 40:3-5, where a call for Mona-woh to prepare the Lord’s way originates from; it is from the wilderness (state of brokenness) that intentional work is done for God’s glory to be revealed for all people to eventually witness it.
It has got to be one person at a time, spread all over the communities; it could be done using different strategies but Mona-woh is here to take a holistic approach that focuses on the spiritual aspect of supporting a broken and probably fallen and lost single mother to get back on her feet; rediscover who she is in the eyes of her Creator and then reclaim her divine purpose from societal distortions. With healing and recovery work on herself first and then to her children, family and those around her will not only create safe spaces for meaningful living but it is for impactful and sustainable development as well.
A safe Space of well-rounded Women with Relevant and Fulfilled Living.
Mona-woh’s existence is a confirmation to the ingenuity of God’s Word that whatever He purposes in a person’s life will come to pass.