Aloysious Bukenya. Received Government scholarship to study Fisheries and Aquaculture at Makerere University.
Age 20-years-old
School St. Josephs, Nagalama
Class Senior 6 (13th Grade)
Village Kimukunda / Rakai District
Family situation I stay with my Mum. My Dad died of HIV/AIDS when I was a little boy.
I want to be a medical doctor.
Ambition I want to in invest my life into finding a vaccine for HIV/AIDS.
Hobbies Soccer and reading.
My story
“My father died of HIV/AIDS when I was in second grade. I did not know him very well being so young. I was very scared and when I came of age I asked my mother why dad was not with us. She told me he had died of HIV/AIDS. I too thought I had the dreaded sickness but mercifully I am free from it.
Mother was the one left to fend for my siblings and me. My mother found it a great burden to care for us. She had no job where she could get money to buy us food, shoes, clothing, or to pay school fees for us. We had to go around the village seeking people who would give us jobs like digging, fetching water, collecting firewood to sell to them so we might get school fees, clothing, and to buy food, salt, sugar, and other things. My sisters and I used to wake up in the morning and work in the homes of different people in the village. After some time, we went back home and prepared ourselves for school.
Life was very difficult as my mother was trying to see us through school but being without dad, she was very stressed and I had lost all hope of going back to school, when my family chanced upon Uncle Steve. He brought me from Rakai to Kampala and I joined the L.E.A.D Uganda family. L.E.A.D Uganda has paid my fees ever since. I am hard working. I scored a 1st grade on the national examination. I was the best in L.E.A.D Uganda, and it’s a point to me because I set a challenge for others.
I am so interested in education because I realize that without it life would be very difficult. I am thankful for the opportunity that L.E.A.D Uganda has given me to go to school. I am on the way to achieving my dream. From very early in my life, I have desired to be a doctor. I want to in invest my life into finding a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. Then I can be a person who is able to help the neglected children of my country.”
