WHEN EDUCATION BECOMES YOUR FAMILY: A TALE OF YOUNG SHADIA
It happened very fast. One minute a jolly Shadia Irakunda was on an errand for her father; the next, their house set ablaze with her father in it. Yes, her father was dead. “This place isn’t safe!” she heard her mother cry out as she latched onto her sibling’s hands. Shadia, her five siblings and […]
Skilling Adults: Sebastian’s Realised Dream
Seven years ago, a taxi stopped at Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Isingiro District, and a severely broke twenty-eight-year-old disembarked. Save for the paltry four hundred Ugandan shillings (about ten pennies) and a one thousand shillings airtime debt on his tattered phone, Sebastian Muzahura had nothing to his name. Not even the day’s meal! His host […]