Profiles
Country: Uganda District: Kyotera Village: Kabuwoko
1. How do you know your parents love you? Buying clothes on street
2. What does your mother or father do for work? Washing other people’s clothes in village
3. What is the hardest thing about living in your country? Getting money
4. What is the best thing about living where you do? playing
5. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? Fish, meat, sugarcane, pineapple, watermelon
6. Where do your clothes come from? Market
7. Do you have a pet? hen
8. What kind of pet? hen
9. What do you do with your pet?
10. What is good about your school class? (he isn’t in school. No fees)
11. What makes your mom happy? Being healthy
12. What have you learned that is amazing? Dancing
13. What is the most beautiful thing around you? Flower
14. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it? Going back to school
15. What is a fun game to play with your friends? soccer
16. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? Digging with her
17. What do you know about God? Giving us food, created fruits, gives us money
18. Have you had prayers answered? Yes (gave us food)
19. Tell about a tie when you got a surprise. When I got clotes from Gaster
20. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) Cooking
21. What did you grandfather do for work? Making mats with palm tree leaves
22. What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through? Getting sick every time
23. What makes your Papa happy? Doesn’t know. Doesn’t stay with papa
24. Last time you cried, what made you cry? Being beaten
25. What do you hate doing? digging
26. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? Getting me food
27. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister? Cooking for them, washing clothes, bathing them
Signed: Nambasa, mother. I accept Ronald’s photos to be used to get him different support.
My mother was a trader and my father was a mechanic
I was in grade six (6) when mother got sick and stop trading.
My father was sponsoring me till I reached junior school grade seven (7) but sadly he also got sick and died
My daddy wanted me to study abroad and become a medical doctor. But unfortunately, I'm very good at pomes.
Which I still want to make my carer.
Honestly I want to become a very good poet.
Today if my dream comes true, my focus will be the less fortunate children in the Gambia.
“ It grows in me like a tree that keeps me wondering why I was chosen by poetry ”
I love education
Nelson Mandela said;
“ education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world ”
I want to use it to change the poor and less privileged children in the Gambia.
Here is a Poem written by Mariama
THE JOURNEY TO SUCCESS
The first letter of human life:
Discipline
Which is tangible and difficult to acquire
But when gained, you become respectful
For when life is approaching which blessing, the prayers of your parents shall keep you succeeding
And if you are a faithful person then greatness shall keep you prospering
Some people say, Life is like a stepping stone for a crown of greatness and glory
But discipline is one of the most crucial tools in human life for that should be inculcated in everybody’s mind
To achieve your destiny meaningful
With a smile
Hello everyone, My name is Isatou Barrow. I am 19 years old. I want to tell you about my story.
My father was an immigration officer and my mother was a trader. I graduated from grade school on 19 July of 2019. I want to further my education but don’t have any support. My dad was supporting me from nursery school up through secondary level, but now I am graduated. I am not doing anything now. My Mum and dad are not working now. My dad and mum love me so much. They want me to be educated so that I can help myself and others.
As my dad was supporting me through school he used to tell me, “I want you to graduate to be a medical nurse in the future.” I wanted to study nursing but I don’t have anys support because my mum and dad are not working.
The electricity problem is affecting many people. Even if you wanted to study at night, mostly we don’t have electricity, an economic side effect for many people not able to work.
If I had money, I would like to help the poor and the needy to have enough education. I would also like to help my family so that they can have the education they want.
This is my story. - Isatou Barrow
1. How do you know your parents love you? Making me a birthday meal
2. What do your mother and father do for work? Frying some fish on street
3. What is the hardest thing about living in your country?
4. What is the best thing about living where you do? Beautiful place
5. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? Chicken, meat, matooke, cassava, jackfruit
6. Where do your clothes come from? From street market
7. Do you have a pet and what kind? no
8. What do you do with your pet?
9. What is good about your school class? Learning new things
10. What makes your mom happy? Going to school
11. What have you learned that is amazing? Net ball
12. What is the most beautiful thing around you? trees
13. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it? Buy clothes
14. What is a fun game to play with your friends? Hide and seek
15. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? Helping mom with cooking and washing clothes (Dad left us with mom)
16. What do you know about God? Created me, animals, plants
17. Have you had prayers answered? Yes. I got something to eat at home.
18. Tell about a time when you got a surprise. Getting shoes, clothes, food
19. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) Cooking and singing
20. What did your grandfather do for work? farmer
21. What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through? Constant sickness
22. What makes your Papa happy? Papa is gone
23. Last time you cried, what made you cry? Being beaten by mom
24. What do you hate doing? Fetching water far at the well
25. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? Buying me shoes and uniform
26. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister? Buying sister a cake, bought brother juice from the money given to me on birthday
27. What would you like to do when you grow up?
Country: Uganda
District:Masaka
Village: Nkooma
He is innocent HIV positive boy who has never seen his father
1. How do you know your parents love you? By disciplining me, buying me books
2. What does your mother or father do for work? I was told by mom that he was a teacher. My mother does local distillation of alcohol and farming.
3.What is the hardest thing about living in your country? HIV virus since I got it from mother
4. What is the best thing about living where you do? Playing, and praying at church
5. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? Rice, matooke
6. Where do your clothes come from? My mother buys them from market
7. Do you have a pet? No. Maybe a goat. It stands on my thighs
8. What kind of pet?
9. What do you do with your pet?
10. What is good about your school class? Writing and reading charts
11. What makes your mom happy?
12. What have you learned that is amazing? How to read
13. What is the most beautiful thing around you? Hens, pigs, trees and banana plantation
14. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it? I would build a house for my single mother, plus schooling.
15. What is a fun game to play with your friends? Playing soccer and riding bicycle if they have one.
16. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? I went digging with her.
17. What do you know about God? God is the holy spirit with no physical body
18. Have you had prayers answered? Yes, he gave me wisdom and giving my parents life.
19. Tell about a time when you got a surprise. It was that time when my aunt gave me shoes.
20. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) Keeping goats
21. What did you grandfather do for work? Growing some animals like pigs and cows.
22. What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through? Death of her people, her phone being stolen.
23. What makes your Papa happy? I have never seen my father.
24. Last time you cried, what made you cry? I was beaten by mom after wronging her.
25. What do you hate doing? Collecting wood in the forest.
26. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? Paying my school fees, buying me school uniform, books and shoes.
27. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister? Helping my sisters with work like washing her clothes.
Country: Uganda
District: Masaka
Village: Nkoma
Her mother died and she was adopted with elder lady on that village.
1. How do you know your parents love you? Dad bring me clothes here where I am adopted.
2. What does you mother or father do for work? Father growing pineapples and cabbages and watermelon.
3. What is the hardest thing about living in your country? Poverty, because father fails ot pay fees at school and they send me back to sit home.
4. What is the best thing about living where you do? Playing with my friends and riding bicycle. Peace.
5. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? Fish from Lake Fictor, rice, pork and chicken
6. Where do your clothes come from? Sometimes Father buys from market, sometimes grandmother who adopted me.
7. Do you have a pet? no
8. What kind of pet?
9. What do you do with your pet?
10. What is good about your school class? Jokes from teachers.
11. What makes your mom happy?
12. What have you learned that is amazing? Writing in my books
13. What is the most beautiful thing around you? Lake, plants and my family members, animals, wells, birds.
14. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it? Buying my school bag, paying school fees, pig to keep at home.
15. What is a fun game to play with your friends? Playing soccer, riding bicycle if I get.
16. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? Mom died. I like to do garden work with him.
17. What do you know about God? We pray to him and gives us good things and miracles.
18. Have you had prayers answered? Yes. I asked him for wisdom and life to my people an he gave me both.
19. Tell about a tie when you got a surprise. When people from outside Uganda came an gave us gifts at school.
20. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) Washing utensils
21. What did you grandfather do for work? Farmer
22. What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through? Whe she got accident, getting constant body pains.
23. What makes your Papa happy? When he grows his plants and he sells them at good price. When I pass exams.
24. Last time you cried, what made you cry? When I delayed at the well and was beaten. When I was too sick and I cried.
25. What do you hate doing? Collecting wood from our large forest.
26. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? My mother died and she had not done me nothing. Maybe producing me.
27. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister? Helping them with homework and washing clothes.
1. How do you know your parents love you? Paying my fees
2. What does you mother or father do for work? Frying pancakes on roadside.
3. What is the hardest thing about living in your country? Has no answer
4. What is the best thing about living where you do? Studying
5. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? Posho and beans
6. Where do your clothes come from? From good people (used clothes from other families)
7. Do you have a pet? no
8. What kind of pet?
9. What do you do with your pet?
10. What is good about your school class? writing
11. What makes your mom happy?
12. What have you learned that is amazing? reading
13. What is the most beautiful thing around you? flower
14. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it? Buying books, set, pens, colors, paying fees
15. What is a fun game to play with your friends? Net ball
16. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? Walking with Dad, cooking with Mom
17. What do you know about God? Created earth, Healing
18. Have you had prayers answered? Yes, wisdom
19. Tell about a tie when you got a surprise. nothing
20. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) reading
21. What did you grandfather do for work? farmer
22. What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through? Death of her children
23. What makes your Papa happy? Getting good results at school
24. Last time you cried, what made you cry? When Mom beat mefor eating sauce with no permission.
25. What do you hate doing? Fetching water at well
26. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? Buying me a dress
27. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister? Making them balls from banana fibers.
Country: Uganda
District: Masaka
Village: Nkoma
Orphaned girl (she is a twin) their dad died in 2009
1. How do you know your parents love you? By mom trying to pay fee.
2. What does you mother or father do for work? Father died, mother does local distilation and farmer.
3. What is the hardest thing about living in your country? Poverty and diseases like HIV which killed our dad.
4. What is the best thing about living where you do? Peace, environment and healthy air circulation.
5. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? To give her or him local foods like, mafooke, cassava
6. Where do your clothes come from? They come from market
7. Do you have a pet? no
8. What kind of pet?
9. What do you do with your pet?
10. What is good about your school class? Learning about new topics
11. What makes your mom happy?
12. What have you learned that is amazing? I learned how to be disciplined and calculations
13. What is the most beautiful thing around you? Good people, nature, trees, lakes and rivers
14. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it? I could pay my school fees, and pay for my twin sister’s fees and my other HIV poistive brother’s fees since mom struggles to pay for all of us.
15. What is a fun game to play with your friends? Athletics, net ball
16. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? Helping her with alcohol distillation to get fees.
17. What do you know about God? He created everything. He loves us
18. Have you had prayers answered? Yes
19. Tell about a time when you got a surprise. When my uncle one day paid little of my school fees.
20. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) Discipline and respecting others.
21. What did you grandfather do for work? He was alcohol distiller and farmer
22. What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through? Poverty, which could make her struggle to support us.
23. What makes your Papa happy? Sorry, he passed away.
24. Last time you cried, what made you cry? It was last year wehn me and my twin sister were sent out of exams due to fees balance.
25. What do you hate doing? I hate collecting wood because of thorns in forest.
26. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? Struggling hard and harder to pay school fees.
27. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister? Helping them with their work in books, washing their clothes.
Country: Uganda
District Kyotera
Village: Kabuwoko
He has both parents staying together.
1. How do you know your parents love you? Bathing me.
2. What does you mother or father do for work? Mother frying pancakes, Dad grow beans
3. What is the hardest thing about living in your country? Hard for him to answer
4. What is the best thing about living where you do? Helping mom sell pancakes on roadside.
5. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? Matooke and groundnut soup.
6. Where do your clothes come from? Market
7. Do you have a pet? no
8. What kind of pet?
9. What do you do with your pet?
10. What is good about your school class? Writing and reading
11. What makes your mom happy?
12. What have you learned that is amazing? Reading words like “nice”, “girl”, “boy”
13. What is the most beautiful thing around you? houses
14. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it? Buying clothes
15. What is a fun game to play with your friends? Hide and seek
16. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? Doing housework with Mom, walking with Dad
17. What do you know about God? Created animals, keeping/protecting people
18. Have you had prayers answered? no
19. Tell about a tie when you got a surprise.Helping me wash the utensils I had to wash.
20. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) reading and writing
21. What did you grandfather do for work? Keeping hens
22. What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through? Don’t know
23. What makes your Papa happy? Papa is happy when I write well. Mom is happy when I pass exams
24. Last time you cried, what made you cry? Being beaten because I played in dirty water.
25. What do you hate doing? Climbing a hill.
26. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? Cooking food for me
27. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister? Washing their shoes
1. How do you know your parents love you? Buying me shoes
2. What do your mother and father do for work? Mom sells food in 3. market, Dad roasts meat on road stage.
4. What is the hardest thing about living in your country?
5. What is the best thing about living where you do? Playing and peace
6. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? Rice, Matooke/bananas
7. Where do your clothes come from? market
8. Do you have a pet? no
9. What kind of pet?
10. What do you do with your pet?
11. What is good about your school class? writing
12. What makes your mom happy?
13. What have you learned that is amazing? Peeling banana
14. What is the most beautiful thing around you? Trees and shops
15. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it? Buying clothes and shoes
16. What is a fun game to play with your friends? Playing with ball
17. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? Going with them to garden
18. What do you know about God? nothing
19. Have you had prayers answered?
20. Tell about a time when you got a surprise. When my aunt gave me a dress
21. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) singing
22. What did your grandfather do for work? Garden work
23.What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through? Doesn’t know
24. What makes your Papa happy? Papa and mom are always happy when I am healthy
25. Last time you cried, what made you cry? Beaten by mom
26. What do you hate doing? Fetching water, don’t like being beaten
27. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? She bought me pants
28. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister? nothing
29. What would you like to do when you grow up?
1. What town and country are you from? Masaka, Uganda
2. How old are you?
3. How do you know your parents love you? By giving me food
4. What do your mother and father do for work? Mother: housewife, Father: sells crops in market
5. What is the hardest thing about living in your country?
6. What is the best thing about living where you do? Have good friends
7. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? Rice, beans, Posho
8. Where do your clothes come from? Market
9. Do you have a pet? No
10. What kind of pet?
11. What do you do with your pet?
12. What is good about your school class? Drawing boy and girl
13. What makes your mom happy?
14. What have you learned that is amazing? Learning how to dig
15. What is the most beautiful thing around you? Plants and flowers
16. If you had a lot of m
17. oney, how would you spend it? Buy cake
18. What is a fun game to play with your friends? I like jumping
19. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? Eat with Mom, Walk with Dad
20. What do you know about God? God is in church
21. Have you had prayers answered?
22. Tell about a time when you got a surprise. When Mom bought me sweet
23. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) digging
24. What did your grandfather do for work? Coffee growing and digging
25. What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through? Buying sugar
26.What makes your Papa happy? When I don’t do annoying things to him
27. Last time you cried, what made you cry? I was beaten when I broke Mom’s glass
28. What do you hate doing? Washing utensils
29. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? Taking me to school very early in the morning
30. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister? Giving them one of my sweets
31. What would you like to do when you grow up?
Grandmother in family one who adopted orphaned Joshua and Bena, because Joshua didn’t have both parents and Bena had no mother to shaty with. Oooh, I had forgotten, she is my great mother, she struggled and sacrificed not to eat good and not to buy luxurious things but to pay my tuition and for others. But now she is becoming more weak. She can’t manage that hard life, but she tries to adopt those who are young and lack parents to look after them at our home village. That is why family one has many children, because of my mom’s good heart!
Country: Uganda
District: Kyotera
Village: Kabuwoko
1. How do you know your parents love you? Buying me sweet
2. What do your mother and father do for work? Farming
3. What is the hardest thing about living in your country?
4. What is the best thing about living where you do?
5. If I were to visit you, what food would you want me to try? Jackfruit, rice, matooke, fish, avocado
6. Where do your clothes come from? market
7. Do you have a pet and what kind? no
8. What do you do with your pet?
9. What is good about your school class? Studying (! she is 4!)
10. What makes your mom happy?
11. What have you learned that is amazing? Doing homework given to me from school
12. What is the most beautiful thing around you? trees
13. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it? Buying glucose (? I want to know this story!)
14. What is a fun game to play with your friends? Playing with doll
15. What do you like to do with your Dad? With your Mom? Helping mom washing clothes (Dad left us)
16. What do you know about God? Gives us food
17. Have you had prayers answered? Yes, when she gave her apple
18. Tell about a time when you got a surprise. When mom came back from Kampala (Uganda’s Capital city)
19. What are you good at? (send me a picture of you doing this) playing with my baby/doll
20. What did your grandfather do for work? Washing clothes
21. What was something that was very hard that your grandmother had to live through?
22. What makes your mom happy? When I go to school
23. Last time you cried, what made you cry? When Mom refused me to go to neighbor’s house to watch television
24. What do you hate doing? Washing utensils
25. What was the nicest thing your mother ever did for you? Washing my clothes, paying my school fees
26. What was the nicest thing you have done for a brother or sister?
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