29 Apr 2008 by Nyaka School
Tags: My Experience with Orphans, Why I am Speaking Out, Other
Denis and Annita have both lost their parents to AIDS. Denis and Annita sent us their stories of suffering and hope from their home in Uganda where they receive assistance from the Nyaka School. Read their stories.
DENIS (P-7 Student – graduating in December 2008):
After the death of my parents in 1994, my life changed. I was suffering due to lack of care and help, yet I was so young. I was so helpless and I grew up while many people beat and chastised me that I have HIV/AIDS because they knew my parents were dead of that disease. One day I had good news. It came from hearing all about Mr. Jackson Twesigye from Nyakagyezi area who built a school for orphans only. I wanted to study and be like other people who were laughing and smiling. This Nyaka School had helped me in order to study how to read and write.
Now I am planning to be a doctor if God wills, in order to help other people and myself. Mostly I will help other people like the orphans and the volunteers. I will proceed to read my books since I have got help from Nyaka. I wish to thank Nyaka for our teachers, cooks, and headmaster and everything you are providing to us orphans.
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ANNITA (P-7 student – graduating in December 2008):
When my parents were still alive on this earth, I was not suffering but now I am suffering. Both my parents have died. I live with my brother and his wife. My mother died when I was four years old in 1999. I stayed with my father for one year in 2000. After my father got sick, God came again to take my father.
After he died, we heard some people say there is a school with free education. My brother asked those people if this school was at Nyakagyezi village. They said that the school is called Nyaka School. It is for orphans, simple and double orphans. After one week, teacher Milton came to our home. He talked with my brother and I came to Nyaka School. Nyaka has helped me so much. I was suffering so much before, but after coming to Nyaka, I am not suffering today. Now, I know that I have my parents because my teachers are my parents. I sometimes forget my parents died and I don’t remember that day when they were taken away from our home to the holy place.
Nyaka School helped me because when I was suffering they helped me to go to their school. Our teachers are very well and we perform very well. At school, we eat breakfast and lunch. For lunch we eat posho, which is beans.
Now I want to thank you director [Twesigye Jackson Kaguri], a big thanks that you built a school for orphans. Orphans were suffering and many others were not studying. But now we are studying so we thank you very much for making a school for orphans.
I think in my future I will work hard and become a teacher. I want to be a teacher and teach the children of my teachers who taught me.
