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Purpose - A Buyamba Student Story

6/13/2018

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by Rogers Talemwa
I am Talemwa Rogers from Uganda, East Africa, and I am 22 years old, 23 on August 15, 2018.  I am graduating with a bachelor's degree in Community Health, a field under Public Health at Africa Renewal University, a Christian university where I served as the students’ president. I am the middle child, between two brothers, raised by a single mother who has HIV/AIDS and just got remarried a few years back. God saved my brothers and me from the “Mother to Child Transmission of HIV” at a time when preventive measures were not yet known. We lost our father due to witchcraft and poisoning by his rivals he contested against in leadership for the leading economic market, then called “Shauri yako,” that his "friends" wanted to steal from him. As a victim of AIDS, this terrified his situation as we watched him die in pain after a period of suffering.
Life was like walking through hell after our dad passed on where we could hardly afford meals or money for education because he was the breadwinner, and everything we had to sustain our lives was taken by our relatives who had forsaken us. We moved and stayed with our grandmother who was very poor and selling local breweries, but she was the only one with open arms to receive us with our mom. We stayed in this poor lifestyle and attended some UPE (free government-funded) school where we could hardly afford even the smallest penny we were required to raise, and kids would make fun of us.
Our mom found a way to an orphanage called Buyamba Orphanage Ministry, and we got somehow better schools, and later we joined God Cares Primary school where the late Pastor Bethel Dongo received us after hearing the story of our family thus brought us in and sought for us sponsorship to support us in school. I would like to extend my appreciation to all the people out there that helped me. Mark and Leslie, those that are giving hope to the African child, the orphaned, homeless and hopeless like some of us were. God bless them. I've grown up through an orphanage school throughout my school life, and I attended elementary and high school there at God Cares schools since 2006, when I was 11, and it completely changed my life.

That very year I received a calling from God to be a preacher, teacher and generation changer. I didn't know exactly how this would happen, but throughout my elementary and high school, God was raising me as a spiritual leader and student pastor and an overall students’ leader in elementary, then in high school, and now at the university. I've always been encouraging, teaching, and preaching to fellow youths from within our church, schools, and camps. As the Lord gave me the opportunity, I’ve had the opportunity to go on evangelical missions with several groups in villages and some countries in East Africa, where I was exposed to a great need of reaching salvation, giving love and support to people and communities that are in lack of all these.
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I can say that to be the man I am today from the lonely family and hopeless boy I was, that I have been able to serve and inspire many young people here is because of other people who kept on encouraging me, praying with me, and supporting me.
I can say that to be the man I am today from the lonely family and hopeless boy I was, that I have been able to serve and inspire many young people here is because of other people who kept on encouraging me, praying with me, and supporting me. I greatly understand the impact and value of reaching Christ, love, sacrifice, belief in others and faith in God.
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Dongo Run 2017

10/16/2017

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In honor of Buyamba's founder, Late Pastor Bethuel Dongo, God Cares Schools in Uganda held their second annual Dongo Run. Participation was open to students, staff and the community and close to 1,000 people showed up at God Cares high school to run the race! This 7K run took place days before the anniversary of our founders passing, two years ago. The day was full of fun as there were prizes, food, and games for all and people gave testimonies of how Pastor Dongo and the Buyamba Ministry has impacted their lives.
This is an amazing event and we're grateful for the leadership in Uganda who grants this experience to all of our students.
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Four year old angel of god cares primary passes away

5/31/2017

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From God Cares School:
Uganda Buyamba and God Cares Schools with deep sorrows announce the death of 4 year old Angel Namakula. She was in baby class at our primary school, she got hit by a car just after being dropped off by the bus from school yesterday afternoon. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family.

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