Naibiri Health Center II and how one nurse’s persistence paid off!
Meet Kamoyi Wilson a nurse at the Naibiri Health Center II in Uganda Even as a child Kamoyi Wilson knew what he wanted to do with his life. He wanted to help people! His dream was to one day become a doctor, so in school he focused on science classes. “Helping the sick has always […]
Laminogwiri Community School – Where the Drop in the Bucket Well Drilling Team Made New Friends for Life
Laminogwiri – Where Drop in the Bucket well drilling Team made a new friend for life When your work involves traveling to remote villages and providing them with clean water, it is easy to make new friends. But sometimes the people the Drop in the Bucket well drilling team meet become our lifelong friends. That […]
Rhoda Anayo
Rhoda Anayo is a passionate entrepreneur, wife, and mom to six children, all of whom attend school. Her eldest son is a senior in high school and wants to continue his education at a university, but will first need to pass his exams at the end of this year. Rhoda’s husband grows sugar cane, which […]
Norah Aligoyi
Norah Aligoyi is 18 years and is in Grade Seven at Aakum Primary School in Katakwi district of Eastern Uganda. She has one brother and one sister. They all walk about one mile each day to get to their school. At school, they had to walk another mile to get to the nearest water source. […]
Sarah Awelping
Sarah Awelping is currently a 19-year-old sixth grader at the Salam Girls’ School in Aweil, South Sudan. When she was 15 years old, she became close with a boy, Garang, from her neighboring village and over time, the two fell in love. They hoped to one day marry, but first, they wanted to focus on […]
Jimmy Apunyu
Jimmy Apunyu is a 15-year-old boy in seventh grade at Ating Tuo Primary School in Alebtong, Uganda. He and his older siblings are responsible for collecting the water his family drinks, and that his sisters and mother use for making dinner and washing clothes. Jimmy’s family live in a village called Oyon Alwevi. It is […]
Akok Aschai Deng
Akok Aschai Deng was forced to move to Khartoum during the war a few years ago. She moved into a new home, started at a different school, had to make new friends and be taught in Arabic, the national language of Sudan, when she was used to school taught in English in South Sudan. It […]
Nobert Alupo
When Nobert Alupo was just shy of 7 years, her father passed away. Nobert’s whole family was devastated with grief and was unsure of how to support themselves without him. Nobert’s mother took his death the hardest and after only a couple of months, she abandoned her family. As the eldest sister, Nobert was responsible […]
Ngor Garang Tong
Ngor Garang Tong is a 5th grader at Salva Kiir Primary School, in Aweil Town, which is in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. His school is one of several in the area where we have recently worked on projects. Ngor has a small afterschool business of shining shoes and said he uses his money […]
Juliette Alum
Juliette Alum is 18 years old and attends Omoro Secondary School, in Alebtong, Uganda. She hopes to be a teacher one day. Juliette is thankful for her many opportunities, as she realizes that most girls in her culture do not get the chance to attend secondary school. She and many of her classmates stay at […]