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Nelson Yiga (born in Kampala, Uganda) is a Congressional award- Recipient. Over two decades of charitable work, he has created a body of professionals that stand among the most admired in modern low income philanthropists.

Nelson is enrolled for a Bachelor`s degree of Clinical Laboratory Science Research at Prairie View A & M University. He did get a Diploma in Journalism from a scholarship by Munnakatemba Newspaper in Uganda in 1992 same year he completed his Advanced Level Certificate of Education at St. Francis College Mengo in Uganda as well. He finished his Ordinary Level Certificate at St. Francis Tutorial College, Mengo in 1989.

Nelson is a father to three boys, Prince Andrew Lord Balina Omukisa Yiga, Prince Nelson Featherstonehaugh Balina Omukisa Yiga and Prince Ethan Michael Balina Omukisa Yiga. A titular Prince, Nelson does portray his royal leadership skills in his family where all the elders passed on and was given responsibility to run his traditional and financial clan affairs. Born of a mother that left him while two months to the doorsteps of his paternal grandmother, and a father who was a businessman on business trips, Nelson is the eldest of the 22 Siblings from different mothers of his father and one half sister. Both parents passed on while he was in the United States of Cancer ailments. Nelson saw his mother an approximate of one month his entire life. He was not able to see his parents for the last time.

In recent years, Nelson has returned to Charitable causes basing his office in Brookshire Texas a small town he went to develop and bring homes to hundreds of residents who could not afford homes. He did this by offering to pay their closing costs and those that needed a down payment always came out of his pocket.

Early Work
Nelson`s first worked as a theater Actor with famous writer Christopher Mukiibi and the Theatrikos in Uganda, succeeding his uncle the late Byron Kawadwa. Byron Kawadwa was the first black artistic Director of the National Theater in Uganda and was murdered by the orders of then President Idi Amin over a play "oluyimba lwa Wankoko" after the play had won an award in the west Africa. While acting Nelson was the composer of music into two musicals by the Theatrikos or Kayaayu film players while attending school at St. Francis College Mengo where he studied Geography, Economics and Divinity minoring in Literature. He later took a diploma in Journalism and became a freelance writer for the Monitor News Paper and Munnakatemba news paper a once local entertainment monthly magazine. He also reported for the Kenyan Drum Magazine.

While acting and writing was becoming his main focus, Nelson had concentrated to singing theater music that became Nelson`s venue for his slightly off-kilter fantasy/career trait. This early period of work is also noted for a number of high profile meetings with ambassadors and government officials who offered scholarships that he often turned down in love for entertainment.

During that period of time in his singing career, with a Scottish Manager only named as Peter, Nelson was asked to join a Uganda troupe the Pearls of Nile Valley to come and educate the American Mass of the Ugandan rich culture through music, dance and drama. An opportunity of a lifetime, Nelson took the offer. He joined the group that brought 43 members to the United States. When many of them decided to go back home, he chose to continue his career as a singer and Cultural Exchange Specialist.

Critics in an American Health Journal once wrote that "...his music works and philanthropy desires display considerable intellectual complexity, and do not shirk the downbeat implications of their anthropological treatment of the poor and poverty milieu... weather in America or Africa or any other continent..."

Another friend said, "Nelson Yiga is both a giver and a moralist. He is sometimes guilty, in the first respect, of a certain over-giving " underlying charitable venues by charitable diction " though the two become more organically integrated as his work progresses; and in the second respect of what one might call an over-scrupulousness on the part of his characters and his perceived attitude towards those in need. These, however, are merely the consequence of aspiration and conscience; and as more of Nelson`s work has appeared " and his reputation has grown " he has shown...a more coherent melding of exotic vision, ethics and moral giving either in a financial, spiritual, emotional or visual service.

He has raised funds for the Houston Seven AIDS charities through the H.E.B pantry network, raised funds for GAP children in Indiana, helped raise funds for Hermann Children`s hospital in the Texas Medical Center, Raised funds for the Houston Holocaust museum and so many others through arranged performances with his band the Brown Lions. He has worked with Stars like Calvin Owens, Gerald Grey, and Bushwick Bill and has been featured in two movies "thanx for a lovely Dinner" by Dave Mathews of Icon Factory and Sleep Eaters of the USA Network. He is the founder and owner of Iris Homes and Int`l Financing Incorporated, founder and president of LIJIF.org and creator of the New Social Network FACEME.ME.

Four months after Nelson offered to volunteer at Hermann Hospital, he was honored and put at Hermann Hospital`s wall of fame for his service to the patients, the staff and visitors of that institution. In December that same year, his performance at DFW for the American Baha`i Youth saw him get a letter of appreciation from Unites States Baha`i Secretary General Kenneth E. Bowers.

In 2005, he was recognized by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson for his tireless fight to end the war in Northern Uganda that saw the death and displacement of children and women and men for almost 19 years by the Lord Resistance Army. He later got a certificate of Merit from Congressman Tom Cole and got appointed to the United States National Business Advisory Council. In the same year, Nelson was given a congressional Medal of Distinction the highest given by the United States Congress and was invited to attend the last dinner of President George Walker Bush. In the same year, President George Walker Bush gave him an autographed picture and appreciation letter of thanks.
He has facilitated funding for the construction of a series of Empowerment Centers that will be in five countries. His goals to eradicate poverty through skill on job training in third world countries has taken him to as many places as Ghana, Nepal, Namibia, Kenya and Uganda where construction began early last year.

Nelson says, "By philanthropy or giving, we mean individual gifts or donations, philanthropic grants by private and corporate foundations, including prescribed private funds, and corporate philanthropy- as distinct from corporate partnerships or sponsorships," "you do not have to be wealthy to give."
Contact Information: nelson@nelsonyiga.com His articles can be found at his Literary Agent’s (Judyth Piazza) Web site at www.thesop.org

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~SYNOPSIS~
“Behind Those Eyes-There Are Lots Of Stories To Tell.”
By:Prince Nelson Balina-Omukisa Yiga
Life had started off like a fairly tale when a young man was born. It would go on beautiful without him noticing he was being raised by a step mother and a biological father, however, life would make a daunting turn when in a boarding school, rebels in this third world country Uganda would invade the school and take off with some children and lead others to rebellion and war and some to be accompanying comrades.

Upon finishing the war, this young man would come home to once a rich father now living a small hutch kitchen. He would emotionally change and the act of seeing his crying siblings being divided to relatives would leave a scar in his heart.
He would then go on to work in an open market to support himself and his father who was down with depression over losing all the wealth he had accumulated over the years. The world had not been prepared for this young man to face in this kind of environment and so the struggles of raising himself up at the age of 13 would prove to be a disappointment of God’s Grace in his eyes.
However, the will to live, the desire to triumph, the encouraging words of his ailing father who would later be diagnosed with Kaposi Tacoma’s a cancer disease of the skin would insert strength in him thus pushing him to concur the world with all he had and that was courage.

In 1992 after completing his high school, becoming the youngest singer in the country while working odd jobs, dating a married woman who later become a mentor a guardian and savior to his triumphant journey, Nelson would come to the United States as a Cultural Exchange Specialist with African Cultural Exchange an organization whose goals are to show American and African the beauty of both cultures.

The journey that has spanned 15 years of hard work, several failed marriages, immigration woes, learning experiences and hard work, has brought this once struggling man to what many would call an American Dream. The catch all sad story is his immigration woes that saw him lose his mother, just a year after arriving in the States, the mother of his child, a woman he says was his “Angel”, his Paternal Uncle and his wife over AIDS and his dear Father in 2004 who desperately cried for his coming home months before his death. The tragic piece brings out how our Leader’s fallacies can bring out the worst of our selves in situations that seem to be un-bearable.
After working for companies like Lowes where he was fired, Target as a receiving crew, Genco Corp. and HAYS/Iron Mountain as a Data Auditor and many more. Nelson became a learning experience to students to which he gives his speeches and performs regularly to help raise funds and awareness that life does not have to be bad because of your background. As this seems a tale to many children from poor or drug addicted backgrounds, Nelson tries to emphasize in his book that your mother might have been a drug addict and your father an abusive but you can learn from those experiences and be a totally different human being. Using his life as an experience, Nelson talks about how factual habits in a home as non-genetic and non- inheritable, “and so one can be different from what his/her parents were.” He says.

The story line that has captured so many before it even gets out winds up the book when Nelson who had thrived in the real estate business, selling lots of homes and helping many achieve the American dream falls to the ground. Along came the haunted story of witchcraft that many people in the Western World believe to be myth. In the book, the explanation of what happened after Nelson decided to help his own folks at home that turned into anger and jealousy opening up a furry of rage from wicked family members who almost ended his life causing him to sleep almost 17 hours a day for three months almost reaching a brink of death, will bring you goose bumps. His savior a median in the Buganda Kingdom would come to his rescue and gradually regains his sense and came back to “life”.
Summing up the story is the last interview of his Citizenship that caused him lots of fear and hate for a system that he thinks favored lots of non-law abiding residents creating a vacuum of those not satisfied with how the system works. He would later become an American citizen and continue to educate, perform and help others as he did before. Constructing a Hospital in Rural Uganda is his goal through his Charity, lijif.org.
Now a student at Prairie View Texas A&M as a Medical-Biology Major student, Nelson wishes to become a scientist to do research and find what lies beneath Cancer Cells in a hospital that is being supported by Donors in Rural Uganda in a small village called Nakaseeta.

He speaks himself of being a giver and moralist and sometimes says he is guilt of over-giving and leaving him with nothing sometimes over takes his family values of keeping everything in family.

I love music, I do enjoy hicking and also singing love ballads... computers as well.

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1. Accomplished Afro Musician
2. Accomplished humanitarian
3. Politician
4. Journalist
5. Computer Geek