My Story

My Home Life: I live in Nalwire Village with my grandmother, Oundo Joyce, along with my siblings in a single-room house with mud walls and an iron roof. I have four siblings—two brothers and two sisters—and I am the fifth and youngest child in the family.

After our parents, Tanbete Alifred (father) and Hamala Eunice (mother), separated, we were left in the care of our grandmother when I was just two years old.

At home, I help with several responsibilities, including fetching firewood, collecting water from the borehole, washing utensils, cleaning the house and compound, and doing garden work.

My father works hard as a peasant farmer, but he can only afford to meet some of the basic and social needs both at his home and at my grandmother’s home, where we live.

He often defaults my school fees and that of my siblings that is why I need help to continue going to school to reach my education dream.