Education Brings Hope and a Bright Future to Ugandan Girls
Caroline “I was lucky enough to have been born in a family with a mother who knew the importance of education. Beside the fact that we were very poor, she insisted that my father took us all nine girls to school. After my father’s death, everyone in the village told my mother that she should get us married because she could not afford paying for our school fees anymore. All hope vanished. I was desperate because I wanted to pursue my studies. Then I met with FAWE.” Says 4th year law student at Makerere University, Caroline Kanyago Kalogala.
Grace: The Survivor Who Thrives
Grace Nanyonga (Picture credit to Liz Kalemera, FAWEU,Uganda February 2010)“I was only a child when both my parents died leaving seven children in a very difficult world”, says a very pretty 26 year-old businesswoman, well-dressed, sitting in the conference room at FAWE’s 8th Donors’ Consortium meeting in Kampala, Uganda.
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Win, the diminutive of the name of Winfridah, in English also means the act of overcoming a test
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'I hate being married because I want to continue with my education. I would like to finish primary school, secondary schooland then university so I can be a teacher or the representative of a big office in the country. I would like to help children since I also needed help as a child. I have faith that being here I will be a wonderful person.'
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