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MOTIVATION LETTER
I, with a passion of sharing people's life stories and experiences through images and my desire to grow this art career have joined the UPPA youth award with high expectation of earning a chance to be groomed and mentored by professionals in the industry through the Visura mentorship programme.
I discovered my love for art in 2013, that was in my first year in secondary school and for 6 years I studied art. I now pursue a Bachelors Degree in Industrial and Fine art at Makerere University. I see art as a different world all together that hells me blends softly and perfectly with all other issues of life.
I passionately want to create art and depict moments that when seen, one should identifies themselves in them through their interaction with the expressions portrayed through the medium and subject, colours included, and how light was used to sculpts the entire work. I think am an expressionist artist in my time.
ABOUT MY THEME IMAGES
The first two captions are of a Covid 19 victim that had been discharged from hospital a week before I took them. Mr. Mugalu Moses is a pastor and radio program host and it was at his home at Nabweru that I took the pictures of him as he shared his testimony on 13th, June, 2021.
I notice a Victor's joy through his eyes but suppressed by the trauma of he developed due to the ICU experience he had. My images are to show the current state of the recovered and his facial emotions as he testified of his covid experience.
The intent I had was to learn from him what that experience was like, the form of thoughts and memories he had and the side effects he currently has due to the ICU experience. From this I could draw conclusions for a psychology side effects he might have got and use this research is to identify ways of helping covid 19 victims heal from the trauma that they might have picked up by reason of their individual hospital experience.
In conclusion, ''the hardship in breathing'' he says, '' I developed a great fear for narrow and small places however much am glad to be home again.''
He now campaigns for the wearing of Masks together with his family.
PROJECT PROPOSAL
Theme:
Helping Uganda' covid 19 recovered victims have a psychological healing.
Background.
Covid 19 was named after the year it started, 2019. Its a disease cause by virus called Corona virus which was not strange or anonymous to the scientists however, no one knew how to treat the disease.
Covid 19 wad first reported in China by 2019, and then spread to the whole world and led to the dead of so many people rated in thousands by 2020 with America having the largest number of deaths and patients. Uganda was not in anyway speared by 2020 though very few deaths were recorded. However, due to negligence and under looked of the Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) there has risen a new and very intense Covid 19 wave in Africa and Uganda in 2021 with aCOVID-19 infections are decreasing in Uganda, with 414 new infections reported on average each day. That’s 28% of the previous peak — the highest daily average reported on June 15th, 2021.There have been 90,656 infections and 2,392 coronavirus-related deaths reported in the country since the pandemic begun.
Most death are as a result of failure to breath, stress, fear anxiety and depression which also leads hypertension thus the death of the covid patients. There is no guarantee that the moment one leaves the ICU ward his fear, stress and trauma remains behind on his hospital bed but rather they keep in that same state for a long time if not for the rest of their life. This therefore restructures the way these person see their world regardless of how mentally or emotionally strong one might have truly been.
Problem statement.
All covid patients have had torment, a raging and battling with thoughts in their minds that could have affected them mental and psychologically due to stress, fear, depression, anxiety and the reality death since they spent time hospital. Intend to work with psychology therapists to aid them out of the trauma developed during their battling to live. However, the community is ignorant of how deep they were affected, so I purpose to document the victims' testimony with expressive portraits.
This will in the end enable the community visualise the damage the covid patients got despite the victory and practically involve in helping them recover for the torment insecurity other than raining stigma on them.
Objectives.
To identify the psychological torture the covid victims and their loved one at home went through went through and how to help them out.
To identify the appropriate psychology therapists and counselors to aid their complete healing.
To take expressive captions to support the article of their testimony and hurt in order to emotionally and actively involve their communities.
Scope
I would like to carry this out is at least two districts in Uganda namely; Kampala and Wakiso since they are most affected and could possibly draw very accurate resolutions.
This I intent to carryout between August and September of the year 2021.
Methodology
I intended to collect this data by case study. I will interview and record my respondents' audio which I shall listen to and analyse carefully to create an article.
I intended to take pictures before, during and after the interviews in order to capture the necessary gestures and expression to be included in the article.
The data collected shall be primary data since its not been done by any one before.
Conclusion.
I believe that among the reported covid recoveries in Uganda, there are so many covid victims that have individual psychology side effects and feel insecure in a certain way and with this project many could be helped out. I personally can't imagine good yield incase creative and fearful thoughts coexist in a person's mind, thank you.
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