Mariam Luyombo

Mariam Luyombo is a Ugandan educational entrepreneur. She is the founder and director of Taibah International Schools in Uganda.

Education Mariam Luyombo attended Mount Saint Mary's College Namagunga for secondary education. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Education in 1985, and a Master's degree in Education in 1997, both from Makerere University.

She was a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative, a program of the Aspen Institute to train emerging African leaders, in 2002.

She founded Taiba High School in 1991, Silver Spoon Daycare Center in 1996, Taibah Junior School in 1998, and Taibah College School in 2000, all in Kampala, Uganda.

She was the executive director of the Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Limited, an organization supporting female entrepreneurs. and for the Resnick Aspen Action Forum in 2017.

After moving to Toronto, Canada in 2006, she co-founded Chakula Tamu, an East African food store.

Awards She received the first National Enterprise Award for Young Women Entrepreneurs (1995), given by the Rotary Club and New Vision newspaper. In 2015, she was among the recipients of The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) World of Difference Award.

Personal life Her birth name was Dorothy Nanziri.

She is married to Hajji Abbas Luyombo, who is involved in the Taibah Group of Companies. She has three children.