Success Story

Category for children voices.

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The making of a Pharmacist

My name is Fred. I am  the second born of five children (four boys and one girl). We have grown up with our paternal grandmother in Namatala slum, Mbale City.

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“No Money to waste on Girls” – Sandra beats Odds.

Sandra from Okworo-Okworo in Lira City East last attended school in primary two (P 2 class) at Akia primary school in 2017 due to poverty since her family couldn’t raise even the few school requiements considering they were many children at home. She is the fifth born out of seven siblings of her mother plus many from her father.

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A promising Young Farmer

Brian(16) dropped out school in primary four(4) in 2018. In 2018, he joined the streets of Lira town after the separation of his parents that left him and his siblings with their grandmother and uncle.

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A future construction engineer

Isaac(15) left his fathers’s home  in Otuke District in May 2018 andjoined the  streets of Lira town. This was after the demise of his mother in 2017. His father married another wife who subjected him to intermittent beatings,torture and falsely accused him before his father. Isaac says,“my father would get so annoyed with me and one day he said that he would kill me if he heard anything again.This scared me so much that I ran to the streets in Lira town in a bid to save my life..“

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Vincent Mateba’s story of Change

Mateba Vincent is a 17 year old who has spent 5 years on the streets.

He hails from Mwongot village in Sironko district. He came to the streets because his family was facing constant torture, discrimination and harassment from the neighbors who sold them land. The father had bought a piece of land and came to stay on it.

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