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University Student: Suzan Kwagala

1/30/2019

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Susan Kwagala is currently enrolled at Africa Renewal University, pursuing a degree in Child Development.
Suzan Kwagala
Susan was raised by a single mother who could hardly afford a daily meal at home, Buyamba started helping her since Primary three (Grade 3) class. She comes from one of our bush communities called Buwama (in southwestern Uganda). Susan has experienced a lot of hardships in her education journey to the point of giving up, given the fact they couldn’t afford a casual meal and the basics at home. But while at school, she was encouraged by the teachers and the environment at school, which gave her hope to keep pushing on. After her S6 class graduated in 2017, she had passed her national examinations well, but she thought that was the end of her education journey since there was no hope at home... But now, she is the family’s pride, for she is the first child (and a “girl” at that) in the entire family to go University. She is giving hope to the girls in her community that it is possible to make it as a girl! She is a living hope.
Thanks to support from Christian Foundation of the West, Susan's tuition needs were covered for her first year of school along with nine other women. The video below shares the student's hearts for Uganda and how they  are being empowered to one day impact Uganda.
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A Graduate Story: Jackline Tendo

10/1/2018

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Jackline Tendo A Student Story
My name is Tendo Jackline. I'm 23 years old, and I graduated this August from Africa Renewal University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration specializing in accounting and finance. I joined God Cares Schools under Buyamba Uganda ministry in 2005, and I'm thankful for their support beginning in primary all the way through university.
My father passed away when I was young, so I grew up with my mom and siblings. My mom used to sell charcoal to take care of us. My siblings and I had no hope of going to school until the day Pastor Bethuel Dongo accepted us all to join God Cares primary school. He was so kind that he gave me everything that I needed to go to school and he always encouraged me to study hard. It was great being at school because I lacked nothing … unlike when I went back home, we had nothing to eat at all. I would collect scrap and sell it to raise money for my brothers and sisters. Life was very hard, but we had to endure. When I reached high school, things got worse because mom fell ill and was unable to work. Mom had nothing at all, she couldn’t even afford our books, so she decided to take my siblings and me back into the village. At this point, I thought everything I had ever dreamt of was coming to an end. I cried out loud and asked God to have mercy on me. Immediately I decided to go and talk to Pastor Dongo to see if he could help us out. After praying, I changed my clothes and made the journey to church. I walked slowly through the crowd at the church down the hill to Pastor Dongo’s office, and I felt so nervous and shy. I knocked and the door, he welcomed me and as soon as I sat down tears started rolling down my face. I explained everything to him and to my relief he was so understanding and kind that he told me not to worry because he was going to cater for every single need at school not only for me but also for my siblings. I was so happy and returned home to share the good news with my family. School tuition was no longer our problem, and for that we were grateful.
When the time came for me to graduate high school I got a job and started working. I worked and saved money because I knew when university came around I wanted to be able to support myself for the things I needed. Although difficult times came, God always helped me succeed, and He was with me through all my hardships. The Buyamba ministry was there for me as well to support me in my tuition. I will forever be grateful to God Cares Schools, Buyamba, and the Dongo family. Mostly I am thankful for Pastor Bethuel Dongo who had become like a father to me. May your soul rest in eternal peace.

I am now empowered to reach my goal of becoming a philanthropist and do the good works of God.
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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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One Child at a Time ... the story of buruhan (Part 1)

1/31/2018

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Buruhan's Surgery
Buyamba's mission is to offer love, hope, and a future through education and discipleship...one child at a time. This is not an easy task when the amount of children in need grows. One of the biggest challenges with this mandate of one child at a time is dealing with a child who has special needs or a medical condition. It is very difficult to give that extra help and time on a continual basis to one child when we have so many...BUT GOD always finds a way. Never has an example of this kind of divine intervention been so evident as with a student named Buruhan. Also known as Buru.
Burhuan was born with a physical limitation that comes with dwarfism. As he has grown, it has become more and more challenging walking up the many stairs at school and maneuvering quickly through the crowd of kids in the hall. Meanwhile, as his condition grew more physically challenging throughout the years, God was raising up advocates to help Buru with his individual journey at the same time. Like the Shepherd of the Bible who goes after the one sheep who was separated from the fold (Matthew 18:12) God moved on the hearts of a group of Buyamba sponsors to try and find medical help in the United States. After much planning and investigating, it was set for Buru to fly out to Texas and have surgery with a specialized doctor in the U.S. Unfortunately, Buruhan's VISA was denied. We feared that again, we were helpless to come alongside this little one and his individual
struggles, but God moved again on another sponsor's heart named Jackie Grant, and she investigated the opportunity to have Buruhan treated in his own country with a specialized surgeon who travels internationally from the U.S.
In 2017, Buruhan had his first successful leg surgery (pictured above) that would be the beginning of healing. Now, in January of 2018, Jackie is traveling back to Uganda again to stay by Buru's side as he will have his second surgery on his other leg by that same visiting surgeon. While the first time God had moved on the hearts of a group of donors to cover all his medical expenses, this time, a generous organization called Child Springs International is covering all of his hospital expenses. Because these sponsors followed God's lead and had a strong relationship with kids at God Cares School, God's plan was set into motion.
Buruhan's Surgery
God Cares...and he cares about each of the students, wanting them to know that even if they don't have an earthly father, like Buruhan, God himself is their father, and he has the most creative ideas of how to meet the needs of each and every one of his children.
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