Before politics For a period of over two years, from 1991 until 1993, Beatrice Anywar worked as the Depot Manager at a company called UFEL Uganda. Then for the next two years, 1994 and 1995, she worked as Senior Marketing Officer at
Vitafoam Uganda Limited, a mattress manufacturing company. After that, she worked in the commercial customer care office of the
National Water and Sewerage Corporation, serving there for eight years, from 1996 until 2004. She became well-known for her work to save the
Mabira Forest in
Uganda. The president,
Yoweri Museveni, and the government had, prior to her work, decided to sell the forest to the sugar company
Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited (SCOUL) to cut it down and convert it into a sugar cane plantation for
ethanol production. Atim fought along with, for example, the
National Association of Professional Environmentalists to stop the felling, and organised a boycott of SCOUL's sugar. In 2007, about 100,000 Ugandans demonstrated in a demonstration called the "Save Mabira Crusade" against the president and military to save the forest. Three people died, and many were hurt. Atim Anywar's house was besieged by military and police, and she was imprisoned for terrorism.
As an independent politician During the 2016 parliamentary election cycle, Anywar lost the
Forum for Democratic Change primaries. She ran as an independent political candidate. She won the parliamentary seat, with a comfortable margin, beating several high-profile opponents. In December 2017, during the parliamentary vote to remove presidential age limits, Beatrice Atim Anywar voted "Yes", to the chagrin of opposition politicians. On 14 December 2019, she was named in the cabinet of Uganda as the minister of state for Environment; a position she was appointed to by the Head of State of Uganda
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. ==See also==