He was walking the talk from the knowledge and hands-on skills he acquired under “Waste Management” a core course unit he learnt passionately during his bachelor’s degree that was taught by his favorite Prof. Mugagga Frank at Makerere University, who introduced to the class a famous concept that “Waste is not waste” but a great resource if only value is added onto it. And to Richard, having been born and raised from a highly impoverished Island community and having struggled through life without any parental support, plus having witnessed many other young people suffer the same circumstances in the country, he saw this idea as an opportunity to go out there and show to the youth about how best they could not only view the global environmental and climatic challenges as problems-but they should instead start to view them as opportunities for their survival and in the end, they should be saving mother nature. This gave birth to his idea of creating the “YOUNG ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDS” as the empowered caretakers of our mother nature, and this saw the formation and growth of YES GLOBAL INITIATIVE known as ‘Global Initiative for Young Environmental Stewards’ which is now well grounded in spreading environmental literacy in schools and championing the exploration of green jobs/business especially to the marginalized youth in Uganda.