Category: Poverty
Making Meager Meals Momentous
Guest Writer
Mangeni is thrilled to be in school today. Because she’s in school, she has a chance to bring herself out of poverty. As she sits in class, she tries hard to focus. There was no dinner at home last night.
A Story About School Drop Outs
Kay
Sweets, mobile phones, no rules . . . dropping out of school may seem tempting, but it’s dangerous. Here’s what one student wrote about the dangers of dropping out.
Young Businessman
Kay
Kawere started this video rental business with his brother and attended vocational school at night to earn a certificate in auto repair and maintenance.
Interview with Jaja Rosemary Part 1
Kay
She found me trying to clean some utensils, and she started talking to me and asking me my own story. And she said, “It is okay. Lets pray about it.”
9 Reasons Children Drop Out of School
Kay
One of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals is universal access to primary education (age 7-14 years). Many positive strides have been taken, but there is still a long way to go. Uganda has one of the highest dropout rates in the world.