Owiny Hakim

Owiny Hakim (born 13 April 1986) is a Ugandan community civic educator and environmental conservation activist. He cycled about 650–655 kilometers from Uganda to Nairobi Kenya to create awareness about safe city cycling lanes onto Uganda's road network in 2023 and to further attend Africa Climate Summit 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss mechanisms for mitigating climate change. In 2019, Owiny walked to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for two months covering a distance of 2,421 kilometres (km) to popularize Africa's agenda for 2063. He is also the 2021 Mandela Washington Fellow.



Early life and background
In the early 1980s, he grew up in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in northern Uganda which is surrounded by conflict and political instability, disinformation and misinformation fueled violence, social division, and unrest due to the rampant spread of false characterizations of the people in IDP camps as violent. In 2014, he lost a friend named Akena to a shooting in Kampala having survived Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebellion days. Both Owiny and Akena went to Layibi College in Gulu district and then sat for advanced level in 2004.

Owiny studied at Kampala International University and attained a bachelor's degree in Public administration.

Activism
He is a community educator who has empowered youth to examine community challenges and seek to prevent crises and violence with the major goal of developing safe and inclusive communities for the next generation.