Wotali Joan (14 yrs), Nakiyemba Nuul (10 yrs), Mutonito Isaac (9 yrs), Tuliskira Sarah (6 yrs), Waswaga Latif (5 yrs)

"A family of five children orphaned by HIV AIDS where both parents died in 2003 leaving the five children under the management of the oldest sister Joan (14 yrs - nine years at the time). She had to look for food for the others and two of the kids Sarah and Latif are HIV positive.

"The closest relative (an uncle) sold their father's land and married off Joan to a Muslim man in the community, where she has to keep on looking after her siblings.

"She managed to escape from the husband to get onto the streets with her sisters, but at this time she was already pregnant for him. She got onto the streets in 2005 with her sisters and brothers. I met her in late 2005 on the streets 7 months pregnant. I managed to incorporate them into my orphanage and thank God that Joan delivered well later. I started looking after them with her baby, but Sarah and Latif needed urgent HIV treatment which I have always struggled to get them but means haven't always permitted me. Joan's baby is currently 2 years old and she has managed to get back into school ranks under my care."



Taire Ismael (9) & Byanaku Hussein (6)

"Not certain of their ages, but they appear to be in the above stated ages. Found feeding off the garbage [June 12th 2006] along the Kampala ~ Jinja road in a trading centre known as Bweyogerere by myself as I was traveling on taxi I saw them and suddenly jumped off the taxi and went towards their direction. At first they wanted to run away as I approached towards them, but from a distance I convinced them and eventually they came to me.

"When asked how they ended up on the garbage, they told me that they where heading back home. This didn’t make sense to me for they then told me that they had lived on the streets for quite some time and really their condition and state of clothing was depicting this. When asked where home is, they answered that they where not certain.

"Asked how they got onto the streets in the first place, they told me that their mother step mother had put them on a Kampala bound taxi all by themselves sometime and they where to meet their deceased father [as I later got to discover]. Unfortunately little did they know the where about of their home place. Nor did they know their stepmother’s name. All they used to refer to her was mama Mary [based on their step sisters name]. I tried to put announcements over the radio and papers but no one came up to claim the two boys. This was evident to me that she just wanted to get rid of her deceased husband’s children. And none of their relatives has ever come up to claim for them since then."


Godfrey Jefferson Sempunau (3)

"Picked from the streets of Kampala on the 8th Dec, 2005. At an estimated age of 3-5 months. His mother was a lunatic woman, along Kamuokya street, (on the outskirts of Kampala) who had moved to this place two weeks before I picked up this baby. She came with a freshly born baby to this street and became a menace to the residents (through stealing their food and making noise to them at night) with a sick baby.

"I happen to visit a friend living along this street who tells me of this lunatic with a sickly baby. They were planning to get rid of her but using harsh means (like poisoning.) I happen to feel touched by her story and I go to her to try to get her story, but I couldn’t get anything from her for she really was out of her brains.

"I wondered how such a lady could end up being pregnant from the streets basing on her state of mind. So I decided to go to a mental hospital to pick up paramedics to help her. I also decided to adopt this baby as my own from then on.

"My birthday was to be his birthday from then on. And now I had to take this boy to my mother for I’m not yet married and neither do I have the home of my own. From that date he has grown into a healthy kid to date (3 yrs old.)"


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