CBC is highlighting Black people in Atlantic Canada who are giving back, inspiring others and helping to shape our future. The public was invited to nominate people making meaningful contributions in their communities, and a selection committee comprising CBC staff and 2023 Black Changemakers set the list of people we're celebrating for the 2024 series. We will have more stories on each Changemaker in the coming months.
Meet the 2024 CBC Black Changemakers. Henry Luyombya Henry Luyombya is a 2024 CBC Black Changemaker living in Charlottetown. (Submitted by Henry Luyombya) Henry Luyombya has always seen the power to change the world in people forced to the margins of society: young people, refugees, immigrants, queer people, or people using drugs or without homes.
"If we work together, social change can happen," he says. "Change of mindset, change of heart-set, change of health-set, and change of soul-set." Luyombya works with PEERS Alliance as a clinical social worker on P.
E.I. and his role is to help those people make that change, especially people from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and their families.
He also founded New African Canadians to bring mental health support and settlement services to people moving to the Island from Africa. In 2024, he will bring the Global Mental Well-Being and Substance (Mis)Use Conference back to the University of P.E.
I. The father of three grew up in Uganda. When he was 10, his father died of HIV-related illness, leaving his mother to raise the f.