Plenary
Susan Kigula is a Ugandan Lawyer, International Human rights and vigorous anti- death penalty activist, with a passion for children, youth and women empowerment, impacted by the Uganda Justice System.
She is a direct lived death penalty expertise, who shares this experience broadly, on international platforms and works with several abolitionist movements all over the world.
Susan is the founder and CEO of SUNNY AFRICAN CHILDREN’S CENTER, a not -for profit organization based in Uganda that takes care of the children of prisoners, orphans and street children, by giving them education, medication, a home, and their general welfare, providing for them a platform to grow like other children with parents.
I am Molly Crister M Avejar, Filipina, businesswoman and a mother of three beautiful children. My eldest is 22 years old, currently taking up BS Tourism, my second daughter is 19 years old studying BS Psychology and the youngest is in her Grade 11. I am the second child in the family of three.
I have served time at Correctional Institution for Women for Estafa for more than 3 years and was released through the enactment of a Republic Act No. 10951 on August 29, 2017 or An Act Adjusting the Amount or the Value of Property and Damage on Which a Penalty is Based, and the Fines Imposed Under the Revised Penal Code, amending for the purpose Act No. 3815, otherwise known as "The Revised Penal Code", as Amended.
It is my personal belief that, “You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow”. I have been through some ups and downs in life but with my strong determination, resilience coupled with family support, I always made it through.
