Hapi Mutesi is a School Administrator for the Amahoro Community School, a Mentor at the Amahoro Children’s Home, a second-year law school student, and a human rights advocate by profession. This is her story.
Iam a mother of two daughters at Amahoro community schools. When I heard about the opportunity of vocational training at Amahoro, I counted my dreams come true because I had lost hope in finding something to do in life, since I never got a chance to go to school due to my parent’s financial...
We appreciate ACCT’s commitment into improving our lives as old as we are. We initially thought the focus for Amahoro was only children but we are grateful to be supported by Amahoro, and we get all treatment we need from ACCT every time they come to Uganda. Our grandchildren and all the pe...
Iam a mother of two children and a senior woman teacher at Amahoro Community Schools, I joined Amahoro in 2019. It’s been a blessing to work and be part of the Amahoro Family; something that has really changed my life is teaching and meeting children from different kinds of background- the...
I used to stay with my mother and siblings in Kisenyi slums; we lost our father at a very tender age, one day our mother took us to our paternal parents place for support and they chased us claiming we don’t belong to their family, so our mother decided to find means of survival for us and...
My name is Nabikolo Sandra, I greatly thank God for bringing me to Amahoro children’s Home, I came to the home in 2011 while I was 7 years of age and I loved the experience because everyone was so welcoming.
Jane at a young age her mother, a slum dweller had introduced Jane to prostitution, a means through which she was able to put food on the table for her younger siblings and find tuition for school.
Caroline a mother of eight and a grandmother. She had never had access to dental services all her life. She walked 2 miles to one of our outreach medical camps in Eastern Uganda. A carious tooth had become necrotic and an abscess was starting to form. Our team was just in time to perform a...
Noreen was married off as a teenager and got pregnant at 17. With no access to antenatal care, we recruited her on to our maternal child health program. She was cared for throughout her pregnancy and delivered her baby safely.
Israel worked at a school as a cleaner before He was diagnosed with HIV and a squamous cell carcinoma of the right eye. The tumor was growing into his ear and brain. He could no longer work, even walk on his own. His wife left him with his two children, he could hardly take care of the children b...
Aisha and Issa were born 6 and 4 years ago to Mr and Mrs SSenyonga. The couple lives in Kisenyi, a suburb in the capital Kampala. The family has struggled to raise their daughter and son since birth. Unemployed without a constant source of income, they would have one meal a day for purpose of sur...
