Nelson Yiga

Nelson Yiga-Founder/Chairman Board of Directors Nelson is a Ugandan Born, American Based Artiste and entrepreneur; Nelson came to America in 1995 as an Entertainer and Cultural Exchange Specialist. He is a recording artiste whose music in out to the radios and Television's around the world. He is a Real Estate Developer based in Houston Texas. Nelson is a trained Investigative Journalist with a Diploma from Kampala Media School. He has a Diploma in Business Intelligence from DTI, San Juan California and a License as a Developer in Texas. He is the owner and President of Iris Homes and International Financing Inc. He has spent his entire adult life fighting poverty and helping those in need. From raising funds for H.E.B Pantry to facilitate the seven AIDS charities in Houston, to Raising funds for the Houston Holocaust Museum, to helping build the Hermann Children’s Hospital in the Texas Medical Center and performing to change the Youth, Nelson has given so much to the community that this is his peak of wanting to serve the communities around the world. Using his talent as a singer and actor Nelson has raised thousands of Dollars and has raised so much hope for the hopeless world. He is the proud founder of a new search engine www.tukole.com and his works and the mentioned awards and certificates of appreciation can be found on his personal website: www.nelsonyiga.comNelson was awarded a congressional honor by Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma and also appointed to represent Texas on the National Business Advisory Committee in Washington DC start 2009.Nelson’s response to the war in the North of Uganda that saw the slaughters and killing of almost half a million people and atrocities that saw the cutting off of ears and nose of victims by the Lord’s Resistance Army prompted him taking a step to contact His State Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson who responded urgently.Nelson is a member of the Baha’i community, a member of Houston World Affairs Council and several other organizations that help humanitarian causes. “Help does not have color, race, religion, national origin or sex,” he says.Nelson was awarded a congressional honor by Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma and also appointed to represent Texas on the National Business Advisory Committee in Washington DC start 2009. On Addition to the Certificate Nelson was picked among the C.E.Os to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor and to be presented to all recipients at the Presidential Annual Dinner in Washington DC on the 19th of June 2008 by President George Walker Bush.Nelson's response to the war in the North of Uganda that saw the slaughters and killing of almost half a million people and atrocities that saw the cutting off of ears and nose of victims by the Lord's Resistance Army prompted him taking a step to contact His State Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson who responded urgently.Nelson is a member of the Baha'i community, a member of Houston World Affairs Council and several other organizations that help humanitarian causes. "Help does not have color, race, religion, national origin or sex," he says.