Abaas is the CEO and co-founder of the Media Challenge Initiative, a youth-driven non-profit building the next generation of journalists in Uganda. He believes that good journalism can make the world a better place through the stories journalists tell. Mpindi currently runs the Media Challenge Academy, with TV and Radio studios for journalism students who do not have access to media practical facilities in their universities. He also started the 3 day annual journalism expo bringing the media industry to discuss the future of journalism and the first ever journalism fellowship program in Uganda for the top 26 journalism students. His story has been published in the Huffington post and CNN African Voices and highlighted by President Barack Obama in his #Mandela 100 lecture in South Africa.