Jude Katende
Kampala
THE search for Miss Uganda is back and with a bang, if the bigger sponsorship it has been given is anything to go by. With 'celebrating Uganda's beauty' as this year's theme, Thursday afternoon saw the signing of a memorandum of understanding between MKM Promotions, the Miss Uganda franchise holder and sponsors uganda telecom (utl) and Air Uganda.
At the brief event held at utl headquarters in Kampala, Solaya Zalwango, the director of MKM Promotions, said she was pleased with the big sponsorship for the 2008 chapter.
utl pledged sh250m towards the event scheduled to start on April 5 with a search in Fort Portal. The finals will be held on August 2.
Air Uganda, who will be the official Miss Uganda carriers, are meeting 25% of the event's package which will include paying for the winner's ticket to the Miss World contest in China and also a ticket for the accompanying journalist.
In addition, the airline will foot the bills for Speke Resort Munyonyo residential training and will also pay the trainers. Some of the trainers of the 21 finalists will come from Italy.
"We wanted to contribute something to Uganda's development and also celebrate beauty especially now that we are a national carrier," Vittorio Scabbia, Air Uganda's commercial director, explained.
Charlotte Kemigisha, utl's corporate brand manager, welcomed on board Air Uganda and Nile Breweries, who will join the sponsors later.
Interested girls aged between 17 and 25, can start feeling lucky by enrolling for and exercising for the event.
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