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329 Mutebi Meddy 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P6
Sex: Male
Age: 13 Years Old
Ambitions: Unsure
Child's situation: Mutebi stays with his grandmother, although his parents are alive, they are very poor. They reside in Mpuggwe where they live in a rented house.
The mother is a hair dresser employed in a salon and she earns a little money at the end of the month. Mutebi's grandmother works as a counsellor in Kasaka village. She thinks it's important for the grandchildren to study and acquire education to give them a better future.
Mutebi goes to school with his two sisters. His grandmother says that, "she finds it difficult to pay the school fees for the children, because the money she receives is not enough to cover the children's school fees". This family lives near to the school.
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| 346 Nakawungu Gonzaga 
2012
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P3
Sex: Female
Age: 10 Years Old
Ambitions: She doesn't know yet
Child's situation: Gonzaga stays with her parents in Kasaka very near to the school. Her mother is Goretti and father is Kaaja Abdul.
Her mother is a housewife who spends most of her time looking for food to feed the pigs she keeps at home. There are additional banana plantations surrounding the home, where they grow food to eat themselves.
Gonzaga is the oldest in this family followed by two sisters who all attend the same school.
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| 410 Wasswa Ashiraf 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P5
Sex: Male
Age: 13 Years Old
Ambitions:
Child's situation: Ashiraf stays with his father and his stepmother.His mother passed a way, and she left two sons that is Ashiraf and Hakim.
His father drives a motorbike taxi in Kampala, and his stepmother is a hair dresser.
During term time, Ashiraf lives with his grandmother in Buzirango village. His grandmother has a small shop selling items such as: salt, paraffin, sugar and others. Ashiraf likes Education very much and he is very helpful to his grandmother with domestic work.
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| 462 Naluyinda Lairat 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P4
Sex: Female
Age: 10 Years Old
Ambitions:
Child's situation: Naluyinda stays with her stepmother. Her father has more than one wife as it is common in the Muslim faith to marry more than one wife. Her father buys and sells fish.
In Naluyinda's family, her stepmother has six children. Her father is unable to cater for the family needs. Her stepmother has no job apart from subsistence farming which she carries out on a small piece of land. Her stepmother said that, “sometimes the children are sent home to collect school fees, yet no money for them”.
Naluyinda is a child who loves school, but school fees is a challenge to this family.
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| 472 Juuko Lameka 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P2
Sex: Male
Age: 7 Years Old
Ambitions: To be a fisherman
Child's situation: Juuko stays with his mother, as his father passed away. Her mother is Kasana Jovanisi, she earns a living from digging. She has no other source generating income.
Juuko was born with a sister; Najjuko, before the death of their father, but there are more four children of the stepfather. Juuko is a good child, happy, with small eyes, who like eating fish more than anything else.
He said his future aspiration is to become a fisherman.
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| 492 Nagadya Shanitah 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: (unknown)
Sex: Female
Age: 8 Years Old
Ambitions: Doesn't know yet
Child's situation: Shanitah is a little bright girl, who lives with both her parents in Bwami. Her father is a fisherman at Makonzi fishing site and her mother is a housewife, who is a subsistence farmer.
The children's names at home are Bashiru (P.2), Abibu (P.1A), Shanitah (P.1B), Arafati and Fazira. The last two are not yet of school age. Her mother is expecting soon a 6th child, and she said that, " they have a hard life when the term opens because their finances are inadequate to pay the school fees, some days the children fail to go to school because of the financial problem".
Her father’s current job isn't reliable because he has no personal fishing tools and the government often burns their nets because of bad fishing methods.
Shanitah's favourite game is playing with dolls.
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| 493 Nakyeyune Jackline 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P2
Sex: Female
Age: 9 Years Old
Ambitions: She wants to be a nurse
Child's situation: Jackline lives with both of her parents in Buzirango village, her father is a fisherman and her mother is a house wife.
Jackie is a clever child if given chance to attain education, last term she was 11th in the class. There are many challenges at home including food shortages, but she endeavours to perform well at school.
Their house was built with bricks and cement but it is old. The mother said that, " because they have no jobs, it's very hard for them to pay school fees or to buy family necessities".
Jackline has a large debt of school fees.
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| 506 Namiyingo Rehema 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P3
Sex: Female
Age: 13 Years Old
Ambitions: To become a teacher
Child's situation: Rehema is the first born in her family followed by a sister called Fatuma, the third born passed a way.
Their parents are alive, but divorced. Her father lives in Kisasa, but the family do not know where the mother lives.
Her father collects firewood to sell and sometimes he makes charcoal for sell. Besides her father, grandmother cares for them, but she is very old, approaching 80 years.
Her father said that, “he wants to educate his children, but is unable to cater for school fees, yet the children want to study for a bright future”.
They have to travel a long distance to and from school every day, but they endeavour to attend. Rehema looks worried about her education, the problem being defaulting on her fees.
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| 518 Ssemwanga Willy 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P3
Sex: Male
Age: 10 Years Old
Ambitions:
Child's situation: Willy stays with his mother and uncle, his father lives in Kaziru. His mother does the domestic work, she is cared for by Waligo's uncle.
His father does subsistence farming, growing crops such as: cassava and maize.
Willy has a humble character, and is willing to study, though his parents are unable to pay his school fees.
His uncle makes and sells charcoal, he has a family of five members and his earning is not enough for them. They stays in an old wooden house and it is very cold at night, because of the gaps in between the wood.
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| 523 Namuwonge Sandra 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P3
Sex: Female
Age: 11 Years Old
Ambitions: She wants to become a teacher
Child's situation: Sandrah stays with her parents in Bwajja, she is a quiet girl and her behaviour towards classmates is good. Her father is a fisherman and mother does subsistence farming.
This family stays in a poor built mud house, because their earnings are very low, that is not enough to cater for all family necessities. Getting school fees for the children is a problem for this family.
Sandrah covers long distance to and from school every day, but she is always present.
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| 526 Nakazibwe Brenda 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P3
Sex: Female
Age: 10 Years Old
Ambitions: She wants to become a teacher
Child's situation: Nakazibwe's biological mother passed away, she now lives with her father and a stepmother. They live in Buzirango Village, both parents do subsistence farming, but her father also makes and sells charcoal.
Nakazibwe's stepmother seems to be finding life hard because her husband cannot provide for them. Her husband irregularly buys family necessities, because his job does not have a regular salary. Sometimes for a whole month he can't make any charcoal due to the lack of trees.
There are six members in the family; the parents and four children (two boys and two girls). The youngest is a one year old boy. Brenda is very playful at school, enjoys morning and lunch break, she gets balls made out of polythene bags and starts throwing them among her friends.
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| 535 Juuko Mike 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P4
Sex: Male
Age: 11 Years Old
Ambitions:
Child's situation: Mike lives in a family of seven members. His parents are subsistence farmers. The situation at home is not all good due to the fact that they rely on subsistence farming which is seasonal.
Raising school fees for the children is a problem for this family, because there is also insufficient food in the home.
His mother said that, “she always prays to God for her children to have a chance of education, for their future to be bright”.
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| 553 Nazziwa Ritah 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P4
Sex: Female
Age: 10 Years Old
Ambitions:
Child's situation: Ritah's parents are alive, but separated.Her father lives in Bwami village, currently at a friend’s home, but they don't know where Ritah’s mother lives. Her father is a business man, who buys maize, sweet potatoes, beans, and others, and sells them to people.
One day on the way home from selling the sweet potatoes, he had an accident, as he was knocked over by a motorbike taxi (bodaboda) but the person who knocked him left. He was picked up from the road by other people who rushed him to the hospital.
It was found that the accident was serious, as his right leg was broken and it had moved from the normal position. He has been under treatment for two and a half months, because he can't walk with both legs, so he uses clutches to support himself. The situation at the moment is not brilliant, because he has no wife to take care for him, so he is living at a friend’s home with his two children at the moment. He isn't sure if he will get money to pay the children's school fees. Ritah is in P.3 and a brother Richard is in P.1B at the same school.
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| 565 Wamaria Anitah 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: (unknown)
Sex: Female
Age: 8 Years Old
Ambitions: Doesn't know yet
Child's situation: Anitah stays with her father and a stepmother. By the time Anitah's biological mother separated with her husband, she had two children: Anitah and a brother who has since passed away. Anitah was two years old and the late brother was 8 months.
Both of Anitah's guardians are gardeners, clearing/ digging other people's land in order to earn a living.
They stay in a rented house, owned by one of their employers. The ancestral home of Anitah's guardians is very far from where they are living. Her father is from Bufumbira and stepmother is from Kanungu district.
The situation in this family is stressing, because Anitah's parents have to spend all their wages on rent. Any extra money they make is spent on Anitah's school fees and some family needs.
Anitah is a little girl, who is always smiling, but looks quite shy when talking to some one.
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| 566 Ssenabulya Ashiraf Wasswa 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P3
Sex: Male
Age: 12 Years Old
Ambitions: He wants to become ateacher.
Child's situation: Wasswa comes from a family of nine members, of these, seven children and two guardians. His biological mother died. He now stays with his father and a stepmother.
His guardians are subsistence farmers, having their own piece of land, where they grow food for consumption. His stepmother said that, “her husband has no other source of generating income”.
Wasswa's stepmother has one child and by the time I visited the family, she was pregnant.
They live in a small mud house roofed with grasses.
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| 570 Kalungi Lawrence Richard 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P3
Sex: Male
Age: 8 Years Old
Ambitions: He doesn't know yet
Child's situation: Richard's father sells fish and his mother is a housewife.The situation in this family isn't good, as the house they live in is very old.
There is also insufficient food in the family. The area where they live is very dry, so it takes a long to receive rain in the area. Most times the crops they plant are hit by sunshine.
There are no running businesses in this area, so it is difficult for people to get employed.
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| 575 Rukundo Emabure 
2011
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School: Other School
Class: P3
Sex: Male
Age: 13 Years Old
Ambitions: teacher
Child's situation: Rukundo was referred to LIA by Child Restoration Outreach (CRO)-an organisation which works with street children in Masaka. His mother who is a widow and a Rwandese refuge in Uganda was in a very disparate situation, with hardly any income to survive on.
They are a family of four children and the last two are twins. So when the mother goes out to dig to people for food, these two elder ones look after the young twins.Their mother couldn't put them in school. They lost their father two years ago who was their only hope in a strange land.
Their mother came to CRO for assistance with food, clothes and fees. But they weren't able to help since they only work with street children, whose lives are so mixed up with drugs and other bad habits, that they couldn't mix in these ones who stay at home though they are also in need.
We were open to taking them in, given the multitude and urgency of need. We therefore appreciate and recommend Rukundo for any assistance please.
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| 576 Lukyamuzi Edward 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P2
Sex: Male
Age: 11 Years Old
Ambitions: To become a teacher
Child's situation: Edward's parents are separated, his mother lives in Kasaka and his father lives in Bwami. His parents earn a living from subsistence farming, growing crops such as: sweet potatoes, cassava and maize.
Edward's two elder sisters were taken to work as house maids, this came as a result of their father failing to raise money for their school fees. Edward stammers when talking but he is a nice boy at school, he likes learning very much.
He said his sisters had no chance for education, he prays to God to enable him get a chance for education and his aspiration is to become a teacher.
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| 619 Namutebi Regina 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P4
Sex: Female
Age: 15 Years Old
Ambitions: She wants to become a teacher
Child's situation: Regina's father passed away, she remained with her mother, who got married to another man.
Regina stays with her grandmother who provide her with care. Her grandmother is a subsistence farmer, growing crops like ground nuts, and Beans, which she sell after harvest to get money.
Namutebi was born after two siblings. Her and her youngest brother still at school, her elder brother stopped studying.
Namutebi want to become a teacher. She said that, "the biggest challenge is school fees, and she doesn't know her last term position, because her mother fails to pay school fees".
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| 92 Nazziwa Annet 
2011
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School: Kyetume Church of Uganda Primary School
Class: P7
Sex: Female
Age: 13 Years Old
Ambitions: Not know yet
Child's situation: March 09
She is well and still lives with her father. Surprisingly her father hasn't yet remarried as most men end up doing immediately after they've had a divorce. Godfrey, the father has had a lot of challenges taking care of his own children especially when it comes to bearing both parental roles, but he says, he will try to do his best to help his children and love them.
However, Annet as the big girl, takes a good care of her young sisters says the father.
She showers them every evening and morning before and after school respectively, prepares them for school, and after school she prepares supper for the family. Its more probable that Annet misses a lot of her mother's attention, but also to some extent its of an advantage that she has leant to be a lot more responsible at this tender age.
Yes, she still upholds the dream of becoming a teacher when she grows up.
Aug 2010
Its now time for 2nd term holidays. The kids might not really enjoy it because its very short- 2 weeks only.
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| 141 Najjuuko Scovia 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P6
Sex: Female
Age: 14 Years Old
Ambitions: Not know yet
Child's situation: Proscovia lives with her real mum and with a step father who cuts down trees. Proscovia's mother is very poor, she cannot afford paying school fees because she does not have a job and she separated from her husband 8 years ago. Her step father is also very poor. They don't know where Proscovia's real father is. Proscovia really wants to study.
March 2010
Proscovia is okay, she still lives with the mother and a step dad. There many members in her family under a small 2 roomed grass thatched house. The mum is a house wife though she spends her time down in the garden planting some food to feed her family. Proscovia's step dad now does fishing, her other siblings are in school studying in difficulty due to school fees lack. The parents are so poor.
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| 270 Kyoyita Muzeyi Yiga 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P4
Sex: Male
Age: 14 Years Old
Ambitions: Not know yet
Child's situation: Feb 09
He lives with his parents, the dad is called Lubega Fred and the mother is Nalongo Nakawesi (Nalongo) means a mother of twins, the mother does farming and the Dad burns charcoal for sale.
Yiga has one 1 brother and 3 sisters, he is the 2nd born in the family, the last-born is 2 & a half years not yet school going age.
Kyoyita started school late because the parents had no money to start him earlier, the mum said their children survive by chance because they sometimes go in bed hungry when the parents have failed to find for them food.
They live in a poor old house built with reeds and mud.
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| 422 Nagayi Gift 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P6
Sex: Female
Age: 13 Years Old
Ambitions: She wants to become a nurse.
Child's situation: Nagayi's parents are alive, but very poor. They do subsistence farming, growing crops such as; sweet potatoes, sugar canes, and others.
To get money, they sell sugar canes, her father once had a small retail shop which later ceased due to problems he had, two of her relatives were hospitalised, one was his son and the other was his brother, he used all the money he had collected from the sold items for treatment, but they both died.
Nayiiga's parents gave birth to 11 children, but nine have passed away and only two are alive.
Her parents' health isn't good, both are on treatment. To get school fees for Nayiga, they have to sell sugar canes and gets money, the earning of this job is less compared to demand for the family.
Nayiga wants to study very much, and her aspiration is to become a nurse.
Nayiga is capable of achieving her future aspiration but her parent’s earnings are low to support her.
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| 434 Kavuma Steven 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P2
Sex: Male
Age: 11 Years Old
Ambitions: To have a degree
Child's situation: Steven has both of his parents and he lives with them at Bwajja village, His parents are subsistance farmers growing food like beans, sweetpotatoes etc. The area where they reside is so dry, most of thier planted crops get destroyed by sunshine. Besides farming the parents have no any other source of generating income.
Kavuma has no problem at school he associates with the comrades, and like wise at home he helps the parennts to do domestic work.
Kavuma said he wants to study and get adegree, but he is not specific with the profession in which to have it.
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| 573 Namuyomba Justine 
2011
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School: Christ's Embassy School, Kasaka
Class: P2
Sex: Female
Age: 11 Years Old
Ambitions: To become a teacher
Child's situation: Justine is 11 years old. She lives with her dad, Bukenya Rozio, and her stepmother, Lukowe Suzan. Her father makes a living from selling sweet potatoes and her mother stays and home. She lives in Bwami village with her 4 siblings, Judith, Nakanwagi, Grace and Noe who all go to the same school. According to her father, the money from selling potatoes isn't enough to care for the family or to cover school fees; as the potatoes are seasonal and as such the yields are variable throughout the year. The major problem for the family is that, although the children are keen to learn, they cannot find the money to send them to school.
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